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by Tanfani in Parlatore’s ‘ F]. Italiana,’ and it is also found about Nice, in 
the adjoining French department of Alpes-Maritimes. 
Geogr. limits.—E. Tsaidam Mts., in prov. of Tangut, long. 96° 
(Maximowicz). 
W. Andalusia, in Spain. 
N. Montélimar, in the department of Drome, 
45°. (Villars, ex Gren. and Godr., Fl. de 
France, i. p. 205.) 
S. Mt. Sinai, 28°. 
39. Strene mubtinervia, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad., xxv. 
(1890) p. 126; B. L. Robinson, l.c., xxviii. (1893) p. 131. 
Caulis parce ramosus, erectus, glanduloso-pubescens. Folia 
inferiora oblanceolata, obtusa, superiora lineari-oblonga vel 
linearia acuta ; bractes lineares acute. Calyx anguste ovatus, 
dentibus acuminatis purpureo-marginatis. Petala purpuras- 
centia emarginata. Capsula oblongo-ovata inclusa. Semina 
minuta tuberculata. 
Californian botanists are inclined to regard this as an introduced plant, 
and Davidson (in Erythea, i. p. 58), reduces it to S. conoidea, a species 
which differs in its larger flowers, acute radical leaves, and globular rostrated 
capsule. 
| Hab. California. 
40. S. ampnortna, Pomel, Nouv. Mat. Fl. Atlant., p. 330. 
| Caulis ramosus adscendens, tenuis, brevissime _hirtello- 
puberulus. Folia parva, inferiora spathulata, superiora 
linearia, plus minus ciliata basi lanata; bractew valde 
equales, lineares. Calyx florifer turbinatus, fructifer e 
si ampliaté ovato-conicus, umbilicatus, dentibus herbaceis 
gularibus barbulato-ciliatis. Petala purpurea bipartita, 
bus exsertis glabris, appendicibus bifidis acutis. Capsula 
Globosa longe rostrata glabrescens carpophoro sublongior. 
a badia, compressa, dorso profunde canaliculata, faciebus 
laniuscula alis duabus undulatis marginatis. 
Hab. Algeria; Oued Cherilla, base of the Filfila. 
ce. Calyx 60-nervius. 
41. S. macroponta, Bows., Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. Li. p. 37 ; 
Rohrb., Monogr., p. 92. 
| 8B. Pampnyuica, Boiss., Fl. Orient., i. p. 581; Boiss. et Heldr. 
(sp.), Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. I. viii. p. 82. Lamina amplior 
Magis exserta : capsula ovata. 
