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GLOBULARIA longifolia. 
Madeira Globularia. 
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TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. : 
Nat. ord. LYSIMACALE. Jussieu gen. 95. Div. III. Genera Lysima- 
chiis affinia. 
~ GLOBULARIZ. Lam. et Decand. fi. . ed. 3. 3. 427. 
perg ville . 2 7 Fr. a, 
GLOBULARIA. - Cal. partialis tubulosus, persistens, 6-Sdus. Cor, 
hypogyna, tubulosa, lobis 5 inzqualibus. Stam. fundo corolla inserta. 
Germ. liberum, stylo stigmateque simplicibus. Semen solitarium, calyce ob- 
tectum: embryo rectus; radicula superior: albumen carnosum. j 
Flores in calyce communi polyphyllo super receptaëxlo paleacep aggre- 
gati. Passim ex Jussieuio, Lam. et Decand. | . 
G. longifolia, caule fraticoso, foliis omnibus lineari-lanceolatis integerrimis, 
capitulis axillaribus. Solander in Hort. Kew. I. 130, 
Globularia longifolia. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 539. Hort. New. ed. 2. 1. 222. 
Nouv. Duham. vol. ö. 198. tab. 40. ge 
Globularia salicina. Lamarck eneye. 2. 733. *: : 
Alypum Solandri quorundam. Lemarck in loc. eit. : 
Alypum sive Herba terribilis. Sloane jam. 1. 19. f. 5. fig. 3. 
rutex tripedalis ramosis: rami teretes, longi, virgati, simplices, inferne 
basibus petiolorum exasperatt, ` supernè vestitt. Follis crebris, sparsis, line- 
ari-lanceolatis, acutis, antegerrimis,. glabris, utrinque let? virentibus, vix 
triuncialibus, basi attenuatis in petiolos breves. Pedunculi azillares, solita- 
Tii, teretes, longitudine 8-lineares, terminati Florum capitulo globoso. 
Calyces pilosi. Corolle pallide cæruleæ: (Sloane calyces hirsutos uti semina 
essent proposuit.) Cal. communis polyphyllus: foliolis ovatis concavis, mar- 
gine villosis, persistentibus. Cal. proprius inferus, monophyllus, 5-partitus, 
laciniis equalibus, subulatis, erectis, et matgine et dorso ciliatis. Cor. uni- 
versalis equalis: propria monopetala, ligulata: ungue. longitudine. calycis: 
marginibus parüm involutis; lamina linearig, longitudine tubi, m trifida: 
laciniis æqualibus obtusiusculis. Fil. a, capillarta, corollá parüm longiora, 
longitudine «qualia, sed dua superné wungwi corolle inserta, dua inferius 
prop? basin. Anthæ. ovate, parse. Germ oblongum, acutum. Stylus fili- 
formis, simplex, longitudine staminum. Stigma bifidum. Pericarpium nul- 
lum. Cal. persistens semen includens. Sem. unicum, oblongum. Recept. 
commune, conicum, paleaceum. Paleæ longitudine calycis, lanceolate, su- 
perius ciliate. Solander MSS. 
GzoBuzaria has been separated by M. De Candolle into 
a sole order, its essential character proving incompatible 
with an arrangement in any of those divisions to which it 
approaches the nearest in general babit. The flowers are 
collected into a close head upon a chaffy receptacle within 
