OF THE GENUS SYMPHYTUM. 543 
5-7 em. longa, 2:4 em. lata; flores 15-20 mm. longi; calyx 6-7 mm. longus; 
corolla 15-18 mm. longa. 
S. mediterraneum, Gussone, Fl. Sic. ii. p. 792 (1844) non Koch. 
? S. nodosum, Schur, Enum. Transs. p. 468 (1866). 
S. Gussonei, Schultz, Flora, lviii. p. 218 (1875). 
S. tuberosum forma, Caruel in Parl. Fl. Ital. vi. p. 879 (1884). 
S. Gussonei, Schultz, Lojacono Pojero, Fl. Sic. p. 66 (1902). 
GEOGR. DiSTR.— SICILY. | GALICIA. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED :—S. mediterraneum, Koch. Mirto, Sicily. Todaro 
exsie. 1393. Herb. Kew., Univ. Cantab., and Bailey.—S. Gussonei, Schultz, 
prope Messinam, Sicilia. Leg. Nicotra, 1879. Е. Schultz, Herb. norm. 2373. 
Herb. Fielding —Gurgo prope Gibilmanna. M. Lojacono Pojero, Pl. Ital. 
Sel. cent. iii. No. 225, 1887. Herb. Kew., Mus. Brit., Univ. Cantab., S. Lond. 
Bot. Inst., and Bailey.—8. Gussonei, Nym. Castelbuono, Sicilia. M. Lojacono 
Pojero. Herb. Bicknell. —? S. nodosum, Schur. Skole, Galicia Orient. 
Dr. Woloszezak, 1897. 
The creeping root, which is like that of S. bulbosum and S. Zeyheri, alone 
distinguishes this from S. tuberosum. 
From S. mediterraneum it differs in the lower leaves being smaller than 
the succeeding ones, and from 8. bulbosum and S. Zeyheri in the included 
corolla-seales. Lojacono describes it as a small plant with the lower leaves 
appressed to the ground, and few stem-leaves. He also states that the root 
is that of S. officinale, but, in any case, this must be an error. His plant is 
probably a small form of S. Gussonei. 
S. nodosum, Schur, is a plant 16-20 em. high, growing in rock-fissures at 
Surul, Gótzenburg, Transylvania. It resembles S. tuberosum except in the 
root, which is like that of S. bulbosum. Schur remarks * An var. rupestris 
S. tuberosi insignis?" ТЕ is remarkable that plants apparently so similar as 
this and S. Gussonei should occur in such different and widely separated 
localities as the lowlands of Sieily and the rocks of the Transylvanian moun- 
tains. More complete examples are necessary in order to form an opinion as 
to the position of Schur's plant. Dr. Woloszezak's plant named S. nodosum 
from Skole is like S. tuberosum, but the root is wanting. 
22. S. BULBOSUM, Schimp. in Flora, viii. (1825) p. 17. 
Radix repens, gracilis, teres, elongata, tubera subrotunda invicem gerens. 
Caulis simplex vel apicem bifidus, raro subramosus, subglaber vel retrorsim 
setosus. olia minute parceque setosa, inferiora ovata vel spathulata cum 
mediis majoribus ovato-oblongis in petiolum alatum basi subdilatatum, amplexi- 
caulem contracta vel attenuata, superiora sessilia, subdecurrentia. Racemi 
pauciflori. Rachis pedicellique dense pubescentes, pilis longis perpaucis 
obsiti. Caly. pubescens, ad tertiam partem inferiorem in laciniis lanceolatas 
