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Hab. Trans-Caucasia. 
130. SILeNE vauueEsta, Linn., Sp. Plant. ed. Il. p. 603; 
fteichb., Ic. Fl. Germ. Helv., n. 5087a; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 13}. 
. Adde: Petala supra roseo-violacea subtus virentia, unguibus 
ciliatulis. Filamenta glabra. Carpophorum puberulum. 
B. GRAMINEA, Rohrb., Monogr., p. 131; Vis., Fl. Dalmatica, iii. 
(1852) p. 166, t. 34 (S. graminea); Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ. Helv., 
n. 0087f. 
Tanfani says that cultivated specimens of this variety are scarcely to be 
distinguished from the specific type, and that intermediate and connecting 
forms are to be met with. 
Geogr. limits. —N. The Alps of Valais, Switzerland. 
S. Montenegro (var. graminea); Mt. Dur- 
mitor, Baldacci, Fl. exs. Crnaeg. (1890). 
E. Bosnia (var. graminea); (ex Nym. Consp. 
Fl. Hur., p. 92). 
W. The Alps of Dauphiny, France. 
b. Petala unguibus exauriculatis. 
Series 2. Macranthe. 
Species 1-3-floree, floribus breviter raro longe pedicellatis ; 
aut flores in dichasio duplici, aut dichasii ramo altero abbreviato 
in foliorum axillis geminati, calyce brevius pedicellati; calyx 
elongato-clavatus seu in speciebus paucis uni-vel bifloris, 
floribus longe pedicellatis, breviter clavatus. 
A. Caules e foliorum rosula terminali lateraliter edentes. 
131. S. paninoteicua, Fenzl, ap. Boiss., Fl. Orient., i. p. 621; 
Ltohrb., Monogr., p. 132. 
Very similar to S. Boryz. 
Hab. N. Persia; in the provinces of Mazanderan and 
Khorassan. 
132. S.Scuarra, G. Gmel., Reise Russl. (1774-1783), ex Hohen. 
in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc., xii. (1838) p. 397; Lindl., Bot. Req. 
(1846) t. 20; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 182. | 
Species a seminibus echinatis et tempore florendi serotino 
insignis. 
Hab. Russia, prov. of Trans-Caucasia; and Persia, prov. of 
Ghilan. 
