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Caules breviores. Folia punctulato-scabrida oblongo-spathu- 
lata vel oblongo-lanceolata, basi rosulata. Bractew ovato-lanceo- 
late, omnino scariose. Capsula carpophoro sesquilongior. 
y Smrru, Rohrb., Monogr., p. 138; Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Nov. 
Or., Ser. II. i. p. 76 (S. Smithii) ; Sibth. et Sm., Fl. Greca, 
iv. p. 79, t. 389 (Saponaria ceespitosa). 
At first referred to Saponaria, as the original specimens appeared to have 
only two styles. 
6. Oreaves, Rohrb., Monogr., p. 139; Boiss. et Heldr., 
Diagn. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. I. viii. p. 92 (S. Oreades). 
Geogr. limits —N. W. Switzerland. 
W. Prov. of Asturias, Spain. 
S. Mt. Ghei-dagh, above Alaya, in Cilicia. 
E. Mt. Stavros, in prov. of Karamania. 
160. Sruene Barsevana, Heldr. ap. Boiss., Fl. Orient., suppl., 
p. 107. 
Stirps dense pulvinaris. Caudiculi petiolis vetustis, imbri- 
catis, congestis vestiti. Folia radicalia, anguste linearia, acuta, 
margine scabridula. Caules floriferi filiformes, uniflori, pumili. 
Calyx breviter turbinatus, glaber, nervis rubellis, dentibus 
ovatis late membranaceis. Petala rosea obcordata, unguibus 
glabris, lamina cum calyce subequilonga, appendicibus binis 
ovatis. Capsula oblonga, carpophoro brevissimo. 
Hab. Mt. Korax, up to 2,200 metres, in the nome of AXtolia, 
Greece. 
+t Calyx dentibus alternatim acutis et obtusis. 
161. S. rruticunosa, Sieber, pl. exs., et DC. Prodr., i. p. 376 
(1824) ; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 189. 
Species arcte affinis S. Sazifrage, sed calycis dentibus 
alternatim acutis et obtusis, petalis fere totis e calyce exsertis 
et calyce fructifero carpophoro dense adpresso, satis differre 
videtur. Sunt autem etiam S. Savifrage forme capsula fere 
toté e calyce superne dilacerato exserta. 
Adde syn. S. gymnotheca, Pane. eas. 
Geogr. limits —N. The Styrian Alps, in Austria. 
S. and HE. Mt. Ida, in Crete. 
W. Lake of Iseo, in Lombardy, 
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