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minuta, biloba, unguibus exsertis. Capsula ovata subsessilis. 
Semina seriatim echinulata, dorso plana, faciebus concava. 
. Valde affinis S. Behen; an ejus varietas salsuginosa ? Differt 
inflorescentia ob internodia abbreviata coarctata, caule et ramis 
crassis, calycibus basi attenuatis, seminibus echinulatis. 
Hub. The rock of Arpedon, off the coast of Anatolia. 
245. Stuene inicora, C. C. Gmel., Fl. Badens., iv. (1&26) 
p. 304; Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ. Helv., n. 5076; Rohrb., Monogr., 
p. 171. 
; Adde: Calyx umbilicatus ; filamenta glabra; semina granu- 
ata. 
Geoar, limits —N.and W. Luxemburg (Nym., Consp. Fl. Eur, 
suppl., li. p. 54). 
S. Campo Marzio, on tke Austrian coast, in 
the prov. of Goritz, near Trieste (Mar- 
chesettt, ex Parl., Fl. Italiana, ix. p. 410). 
E. Prov. of Carniola. 
Tenore’s southern record in Sicily is erroneous, though it has been intro- 
duced into the island with flax, as into other localities. 
246. S. crassipes, Fenzl, Pugill. Plant. Nov.. Syr, p. 8 
(1842) ; Rohrb., Monogr., p. 172. 
B. assyriaca, Haussk. et Bornm. evs. (sp.) in Bornm., It. 
Persico-turcicum, 1893, n. 975 (an species propria ?). 
Folia inferiora ovata. Petala emarginato-biloba. 
As C. M. Lindman rightly points out, this species should not be referred 
to the series Lasiocalycine, as the nerves of the calyx anastomose, and the 
Plant otherwise differs very little from S. linicola. For the same reason, 
‘. gonocalyx, Boiss., should be a distinct species, instead of being joined 
with S, crassipes, as Rohrbach has done. 
‘freogr. limits—N. Mt. Nimroud-dagh, in prov. of Musch 
(Sintenis, Iter Orientale, 1888). 
S. and W. Coast of Syria, near Sidon. 
E. Mt. Kuh-Sefin, in Kurdistan (var. #). 
Series 11. Lasiocalycine. 
Calyx fructifer apice contractus. Calyx evenius, valde 
Costatus ; coste pilis longis vel squamis distinctis vestite. 
a. Petala integra vel emarginata. 
247. S. Goxocatyx, Boiss., Diag. Pl. Nov. Or., Ser. I. viii. 
P- 38; Fl. Orient., i. p. 587, et suppl., p. 92. 
