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there is not that difference in the fruit which one would expect 

 from the descriptions of the two species. Certain it is that the 

 thoroughly mature fruit of A. leucadeum does not present the 

 oval form it is represented to possess ; and this assertion is only- 

 made after some hundreds of plants have passed through my 

 hands. The old station of the Capo di Leuca seems to be lost, 

 as the plant was searched for in vain by Messrs. Porta and Eigo 

 during their excursion to Japygia and Calabria. 



Er odium Gussoni, Ten., is frequent in the neighbourhood of 

 Otranto ; and has been found more sparingly in other parts of the 

 district. It is perhaps the handsomest of our European Erodiums ; 

 and is frequently found flowering in the autumn from shoots put 

 forth by plants which have been injured or partially destroyed by 

 animals during the summer. 



Anthemis hydruntena, mihi, sp. nov. — This is one of the 

 discoid Anthemides; and although it bears some similarity to 

 known varieties, it may be distinguished at once by its upright 

 rigid habit and superior height. It is nearer to A. graveolens, 

 Boiss., than to any other ; although the latter species is radiate, 

 and no discoid form has been observed as yet, as far as 1 am 

 aware. Moreover, it differs in several particulars from this and 

 other species, as will be seen by the following description. From 

 the montana group it is easily distinguished by the conical re- 

 ceptacle. Unlike the greater number of discoid species, which 

 are mountain-plants, our species grows on broken knolls by the 

 Alimini lakes near Otranto, and consequently at a low level and 

 at a short distance from the sea. 



Anthemis hydruntina, mihi. Pedalis et sesquipedalis olens, 

 prater pilos lanatos et maculas lanuginosas glabrescens et pallide 

 virens, caulibus ascendentibus numerosis 1-3- rarius 6-cephalis, 

 rhizomate surculos foliosos ascendentes edente, foliis inferioribus 

 ambitu elongato-oblongis bipinnatis in lacinias acutas submucro- 

 natas divisis, superioribus pinnatis, brevioribus pinnis apice tri- 

 fidis vel bifidis interdum simpliciter subulatis, capitulis discoideis 

 mediocribus, involucri lanuginosi phyllis numerosis late lanceo- 

 latis obtusis marginibus pallidis scariosis, receptaculo conico 

 elongato, paleis carinatis attenuatia mucronatis glandulosis ad 

 flosculos sequilongis, acheniis albidis sulcato-costatis tetragonis 

 tuberculatis corona valida superatis. Variat foliorum latitudine 

 et surculorum magnitudine. Habitat prope Hydruntum, Ja- 

 pygia in collibus ad lacum Alimini proximis. 



Ccntaurca alba, var — The number of forms gathered together 



