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S ubsect io 3. Macrolepides. 

 Bracteae 4, ovatse patentes. 



* Involucri pbylla scariosa, rarius berbacea. Petala barbulata. 



50. D. compactus, Kit. in Schultes, Oesterreichs FL ed. II. i. 

 p. 654 ; Beichb. FL Germ. Ecccurs. p. 805. 



Grlaber. Caules 50 centim., simplices v. superne ramosi teretes. 

 Folia plana lanceolata acuta 5-nervia patentia recurva, radicalia 

 44 mm. vagina folii diam. duplo longiore, caulina 30 mm. vagina 

 folii diam. sequante. Inflorescentia fasciculis tricbotomis florum 

 densorum inodororum. Bracteae purpureo-brunneaD acuminata^ ad 

 calycis apices. Calyx rubellus apice attenuato, dentibus acutis 

 triaugularibus. Petala contigua; lamina purpurea obovato- 

 cuueata maculata, = | unguis. 



b. prelucianus, mihi, ex Novenytani LapoJc (1885), p. 126; 

 Pinks Cent. Fur. p. 25. 



Calyx viridis. Lamina pallidissima, 



A variety with mucb paler flowers, found by F. Porcius near 

 Preluei in the county of JNaszod in Hungary. 



Geogr. limits. — N. Galicia, in Austria, 49°. E. 



"Wallachia 



S. Mt. Majella, in Abruzzi, 42°. W. 



51. D. crassipes, Boem. ap. Willk. Icon. Descr. PL Crit. i. 

 p. 7, t. 1 ; Willk. et Lange, Prodr. FL Sisp. iii. p. 677. 



Pubescens. Caules 58 centim., simplices teretes stricti. Folia 

 stricta adpressa ; basilaria 62 mm., 7-nervia acuta, reliqua 

 50 mm., 5-nervia acuminata, vagina folii diam. duplo longiore, 

 subfloralia elliptica late membranacea capitulum superantia. In- 

 florescentia corymbosa, fasciculis plerumque 2 pedunculis angu- 

 latis ; capitulis 20-30 florum inodororum. Bracteae 2 exteriores 

 ad dimidium calycem acutae, 2 interiores ad calycis apices acu- 

 minate. Calyx apice attenuato, dentibus lanceolatis acuminatis. 

 Petala non contigua; lamina obovato-euneata purpurea, =} 

 unguis. Semiua punctulata. 

 Sab. Andalusia. 



52. D. Girardini, Lamoite in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1874 ; 

 auct. Pinks West. Fur. p. 13. 



Glaber. Caules 50 centim., simplices v. superne ramosi 

 teretes. Folia 35 mm., lanceolata acuminata plana mollia 5- 

 nervia, vagina folii diam. aequante, subfloralia lanceolato-linearia. 



