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with the purely local plants of the section coming hereafter, will 

 be found to contain the most noteworthy species of the whole 

 enumeration ; and ought to be much further enriched by diligent 

 research, when we bear in mind what rich stores of species are 

 found on the opposite coasts of Albania and Greece. 



Ranunculus asiaticus, L. — This thoroughly Eastern species 

 occurs on rough ground to the west of Otranto, and is now 

 threatened with destruction through the cultivation of its habitat. 

 Our plaut is the red- flowered variety, and reaches here its most 

 westerly European station. 



Batrachium confusum, F. Schz., var. heterophylla limosa, which 

 occurs also in Dalmatia. 



Onobrychis eehinata, Dietr.,= 0. alba, Ten., is a plant which 

 has been confounded with 0. alba, Desv., which is found on some 

 of the higher Apennines. 



Carum multiflorum, Boiss., known also as Athamanta multiflora, 

 Sibth. & Sin., and Ligusticum graecum, DC, is a remarkable plant, 

 which seems rare everywhere, and of which no specimen exists 

 at Kew, I believe. It resembles a Ligusticum in a most asto- 

 nishing way; so much so, that without ripe fruit one would 

 have no hesitation in placing it in that genus. It is one of the 

 " finds " on the rocky ground north-west of Gallipoli, where so 

 many good species keep themselves company. 



Callistemma brachiatum, Boiss. Idem, var. Sibtlorpiana, Boiss. 



Anthemis brachycentros, Gay. Near Otranto this plant takes 



the place of A. Gota in the cultivated fields, and is a variety of the 



original Dalmatian species, having the receptacle chaff almost 



without a mucro. 



Anthemis Chia, L. 



Crepis rubra, L. 



Leontodon asper, Poir. 



Phyteuma limoniifolium, 



Sibth. & Sm. ' 



Scrophularia lucida, L.-This is the true Linnean species such 

 as occurs in Greece, and not to be confounded with that of French 

 authors. It is very abundant on the Serra and Montagna 

 Spaccata near Gallipoli ; and the variety fdicifolia is also found 

 with the species. 



Acanthus spinosissimus, Pers. j Calamintha suaveolens, Boi.s. 

 Satureja cuneifolia, Ten. Euphorbia aleppica, L. 



Quercus jEgilops, L. 



Cardopatium corytnbosum, Pers. 

 Lagoseris bifida, Koch. 

 Leontodon saxatilis, Eeichb. 

 Erica verticillata, Forsk. 



