the west as the village of Krasnoi-rog, in the government 

 of Chernigow, in the Ucrain. 



From this fine species, Swartz, and, following him, 

 Willdenow, have distinguished a plant which they call 

 C. ventricosum, but which Gmelin does not consider more 

 than a variety. Of C. ventricosum we possess a specimen 

 from the Herbarium of Stephan, with no locality assigned 

 to it, but with a ticket marked " C. grandiflorum j3, var. Lin. 

 Sp. PL ed. Willd. Gen. 1613, spec. 7. 8 ;" whence it appears 

 that this Botanist considered the two supposed species as 

 varieties of one. In this he possibly was correct ; for it 

 must be confessed, that the differences which exist between 

 them are not of a very decided nature. The principal 

 separating characters appear to us to consist in C. ventri- 

 cosum having a rather larger flower, with very acuminate 

 sepals and petals, being generally 2-flowered, and having 

 the petals nearly twice as long as the lower double sepal. 

 The first of these distinctions, namely, in the size of the 

 flowers, is probably of no moment ; for our Ucrain C. ma- 

 cranthos is nearly as large as C. ventricosum ; the others 

 may perhaps be of greater value. 



J. L. 



