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Geogr. limits.— N. Coast of the Kara Sea, in Arctic Russia, 



left bank of E. Kard, 70°. 

 S. Near the mouth of the E. Mecon, in 



Cochinchina, 10°, 

 JE. Near Hakodate, in Jesso, the northern is- 

 land of Japan, 142°. 



W. North Portugal, 8° W. 

 The reasons for joining the European D. Seguieri with D. si- 

 nensis have been discussed elsewhere. The Liunean description of 

 this pink is obscure and insufficient. Linnaeus says of the petals : 

 "corollse crenatse, subtus subvirescentes, supra sanguinese, mar- 

 gine incarnato, annulo centrali nigro crenato." The ambiguity 

 as to the bearded condition of the lamina of the petals has misled 

 me into referring it hitherto to the wrong group. In none of 

 the accessible descriptions of the plant is this character noticed, 

 and in such reliable dried specimens as are available it is im- 

 possible to tell. It was only after coming across accidentally a 

 paper " Ueber D»a»/Aw -Bastarde," by P. Ascherson (in 

 Sitzungsb. Gesellsch. naturf. Freunde Berl. 1877, p. 178), that 

 I decided ultimately to place it among the species with bearded 

 petals. In this paper the learned author emphasizes the dia- 

 gnosis between!), sinensis andD. Caryophyllus by various minor 

 characters, including the bearded condition of the petals ; though 

 apparently, under cultivation, this capillary outgrowth becomes 

 evanescent. The species is extensively figured, but generally in 

 a semi-cultivated state, or as a degenerated florists' flower. 



154. D. ERiXACEtrs, Boiss. Diagn, PL Nov. Or. ser. I. i. p. 21 ; 

 FL Orient, i. p. 498. 



Caespitosus, basi suffruticosus, dumuloso-erinaceus, 20 centim. 

 Caules simplices stricti l-2«flori. Folia 20 mm., subulata pun- 

 gentia patentia carinata, vagina folii diam. 3-plo longiore. 

 Bracteae 8-10 ovatae acuminata* calycem superantes. Calyx 

 rubellus apice attenuato, dentibus lanceolatis acutis scarioso- 

 marginatis ciliolatis. Lamina obovato-euneata rosea, subtus 

 flaveseens. 



b. Webbianus, Parol, (sp.) in Vis. Illustr. Or. ex Mem. 1st. 

 Tenet, p. 21, t. 3 ; Walp. Bepert. ii. p. 772. 



Minor. Caules uniflori. Folia lanceolato-linearia squarrosa 

 canaliculata. Bractea* ovales vel obovatse cuipidate calycem 

 subaequantes. Calyx dentibus acuminatis. Lamina spathulata. 



Sab. Anatolia, in Asia Minor. 



