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Descriptionem inter manuscripta mea ultra 40 annos asservavi quia specimina 
(Mitchelliana) olim a me observata satis mala erant nec characteres certos exhibebant. 
Nunc exemplaria meliora (Baileyana) sub nomine erroneo L. Hyssopifoliae distributa vidi. 
L. paradoxum Koehne n. sp. 
Icon: Koehne Atl. ined. t. 44 fig. 405. 
Viridi-incana; caules 20—40 cm longi suberecti, diametro basali circ. 
3 mm aequante superne eum ramis paucis suberectis gracillimi angulosi 
inferne marginati superne anguste alati. Folia internodiis longiora, sessilia 
v. subsessilia lanceolato-linearia v. anguste linearia (32—12 : 6—1 mm), 
basi obtusa brevissimeque contracta apice acuta, vix crassiuscula, in sicco 
|-nervia v. obscure penninervia. Pedicelli brevissimi v. 1—3 mm longi; 
prophylla calycis circ. i/ aequantia linearia v. lanceolata, subscariosa. 
Calyx appendicibus adjectis 5—6 mm longus tubulosus, apice subdilatatus; 
lobi brevissimi conniventes acuminati; appendices magnae, tubi 
1/4—1/; longitudine aequantes, ovatae, oblongae v. lanceolatae, acutius- 
culae v. obtusiusculae. Petala tubo cire. aequilonga, obovato-rotun- 
data purpurea. Stamina ad tubi cire. 2/, —!/; inserta. Ovarium angustum, 
subeompressum, bisulcum biloculare, staminum insertionem cire. aequans. 
Capsula ignota. 
Australia interior, in cl. Mircurrr expeditione collecta (vidi in Herb. 
cl. Martius). Brisbane (num ibi collecta?) comm. J. M. Barry (vidi in museo 
reg. Berol.). 
L. album H.B.K. Huc pertinere videtur L. Sanfordi Greene (1889 
Pittonia II 12 et 4894 Fl. Franciscana I 231), de qua dicit autor: »Perennial, 
not stoloniferous, the stout contorted roots deep-seated and more or less 
horizontally spreading like rootstocks. Herbage deep green, glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, linear-oblong, sessile. Petals 6, bright purple, showy. 
Calyx minutely and very acutely 12-carinate, teeth short, triangular, the 
main ones nearly equalled by the intervening processes. — Calif., in dry 
fields along the lower San Joaquin, near Stockton (Sanford) and at Fresno 
(Bioletti). — A troublesome plant in vineyards and orchards, owing to the 
tenacious vitality of the roots!), which send up shoots and form new plants, 
when cut in pieces by the plow.« Praeterea cl. Greene dicit de L. cali- 
fornico?)» stoloniferous; roots?) spreading near the surface of the ground.« 
Itaque autor nonnisi cum L. californico speciem suam novam comparat, quae 
— e speciminibus Sanfordianis a me examinatis — ab illo jam calycibus 
minoribus annuloque hypogyno multo angustiore (a cl. Greene non de- 
scripto) facile distinguitur. Speciem potius eum L. albo satis variabili com- 
1) Num vera de »radicibus« agitur? E veris Lythri radicibus innovationes oriri 
nunquam posse censeo. 
2) Cl. Greene citat L. californicum »Torr. et Gr.« sed versimiliter agit de L. cali- 
fornico S. Wats. optima specie. L. californicum Torr. et Gr. est idem quod L. album H.B.K. 
3) Potius certe rhizomata. 
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