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teeth, pappus half the length of the achenium, which is of a 

 beautiful grass-green colour and slightly ribbed, with capitula 

 one third less than the Otranto variety. It is rather singular 

 that the colour of the achenium in the latter plaut should be that 

 of the capitular spots of the hybrid found near Florence. Of 

 the smaller section Tenori and Gussone have described several 

 varieties ; and in our district we have Tenori's var. D, or C. 

 Lippii, Ten., and Gussone's var. divaricata and angustifolia. Iff 

 some cases a very short pappus is present, amounting in one case 

 to a few hairs on one side only. 



Podospermnm Tenorii, DC. = Scorzonera Tenorii, Presl, is a 

 rare species, which extends into the neighbouring Calabria. 



Campanula Bosani, Ten., the C. Tenorii of Morettiand C. versi- 

 color, Gussone, is a local variety of C. versicolor, Sibth. & Sm., and a 

 very handsome and floribuud species, inhabiting the " Pietra dura" 

 or limestone rock (so called to distinguish it from the Tufa so 

 common in these parts, and which is of a much more friable 

 nature) which composes the chines of Leucaspide and the cliffs 

 of the Serra near Gallipoli. It is a robust species, with stems 

 not unfrequently the size of the little finger. Beginning to 

 flower in early autumn, it continues to show its full corymb of 

 bloom for at least two months, which makes it a great acquisition 

 to a country where a fervid sun hurries away the most brilliant 

 flowers before even the summer is passed. The plant flourishes 

 exceedingly on my terrace, being kept indoors during winter; 

 some large gouty rootstocks I brought from Grallipoli during my 

 last visit having furnished stems which began flowering in August 

 and continued until January. It is also easy to raise from the seed. 

 Verbascum viminale, Guss., grows in many places on the coast, 

 where it keeps company with V. garganicum, Ten., which, as its 

 name implies, is also found on Monte Gargano ; a headland, 

 although much further to the north, boasting of a climate similar 

 to Japygia. 



Salvia hemaiodes, L., is the rarest of many good Salvias, which 

 have not been enumerated from their forming part of the general 

 Mediterranean flora. 



Statice cancellata, Bernh., Yav.glabrata, Guss., differs so much 

 from the typical species of the eastern Adriatic coast, that I have 

 placed it in the local division. It is distinguished not only by 

 its degree of pubescence, but also by its habit, the plant forming 

 dense cushions on the sea-shore, growing in the interstices of the 

 flat boulders which are almost on a level with the sea, and not 



