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Plate XLVI. d. 



THE ALPINE, or ROYAL BLADDER KERN 



(Cystoptkkis uegia). 



CYSTOPTKRIS, Bernhardt. 



Clusters of Spore-awe* rotundnte, growing from the back of the veins, medial, indurate. 

 fndusinm hooded or cuciillnto, Bxed by its broad base posteriorly beneath the 

 scrag, and inflected over it* at length reflected ; the free (anterior) margin 

 truncate acute or acuminate, often fringed. IViji* disunited at their extremities, 

 branched, the branches (venules) simple or forked. 



C* REOU: fronds lanceolate, hi- or sub- tri pinnate ; pinnae ovate ; pinnules ovate-oblong, 

 united by a wing, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes linear or linear-oblong, with two 

 or three short blunt or ret use teeth ; raehis winged above ; veins terminating in 

 the apical notch of the emarginate teeth. 



CvMoNMiC ileoia, /VeW, Ttatane* Flerid&rrajiM*, &3. tY* t Gr*m Filie*m t 2D1K 



Cvti-iorrtHli Atrixi, 7>-rJux. JJrnl, HerU* R*$\** RrrelinemrU, iL 130; Ftlirvm gptcfaf 10 (in*)* ur.). 

 //rtfrr, TtritUk Flora, 146; SpetUa Ftii*m» t i. 109* Ifofiktr o*J Ar»>tt t tiritUl f/wv, 5?i. JUM^ta*, 

 J/iPMirirJ f/ ftrirtih Stota«jr, 413, J/»rv. §fmutf*yA \ rf firitua Fmu, 7S, Sowrly, F*r*t ef Great &rif<r** t 

 40, U 23. 

 Foot podu u nonvi Lkm ** *, ^wm FUniarwu, iom 



POMTOMlTM ALBUM fl t £wmy£, J7«v FroMraw. i, 21. 



POM 1*0 1> I CM ivL\ «i»umii v c. ittairu, JTfZtiu, Hi/teir* &* Ptanfr* Ju JWflia/, iiL $i7, t 3ft, f. r\ 



Pol vimtimm AltmVi iruj/fii. Jaw/utM'* (W&vteani. it. 1TL JafffiuV /ow* PU*taru*t Iforwwm, iii. L OIL 1 



Polteodiuu CKi«ruu, ft^M, Htuttmtfo*** Itrt*xk\T t $1, 



MrJfclUM XEQlUtf. Sttortt. StAnkr'* Journal fir JU JttfmA, ISOO, iL 11 ; f^^iii Fttintm r &§* UittJ&tf>*, 



Spteirr Phufar*m t v. 2S1. fyr*nfel t SfitriM rryttabilimm, iv. 107. 

 Asmnm UKfflnt, SwJ,-, &**Wer'# JwnulfSr te Btf**iJ: t l$to,il. 12 j fyiuptu AJfant, Gfc IHAibViwir, 



$wVj Ptamtmm, r. 288. &U«lr. A' W /ojo«iirI* OMfelM^ 00. It tfi, 62 A. fymyrf, J^tfr« 



J'ffcUbitiaM, ir, 109. 

 A ii*i iii tit txYfltf itw*K, ** Jj*ot*t rtntJ OtanL W TVftw. 2SS:" in tort; according to spximeus in lib. Mu.s Brit.. 



aud HK Hook, 



CtATII&I l*C1tV, &xutk f Fu$Ut\ Jfotamy, iii* I. 1C3. 



Cv.itiltA k£fl>a t Forttrr, St***** $&**?*" PIa*tarra f 191. &ii/t, Phrs /TWMJtJo*, iii. I M'l <ira pirt) 



C* AT Jin M<riXA, A B ut7A» Ntm&irts 4r FJeiut/me ftopite <tr* S?ir*r*4 *U Dtrim t V* 117, in otu. i£j/fl F Fior*\ 



ilrmofiira^ iii. !W* 

 CrnrKA rkuia, Smifl, AW/mA Fi>y/*\ iv. 2<l f-iJ. »ni. Withering, oinl tbo alpine 1-ibiiaU). 

 CrttTA alwxi^ &£**, iiyKiA FW, ir. 201 (in ob*.). 

 Aintmiu ALn?4i)i f fyrru$tJ t "Crypt. 143*" 



Atutuu-u ^i 'iii w, G/mjt, RritUl Plant** it 11 <nrf. nyn, Willwrring). * 



Ctcloiterm rUOU, Gr^, BritU* PU*t*. ii. in ah-^OiAl 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE- 



KAltlTAT. — Tho only authenticated tibttat for tliU riant u a wall nt I*>n Lcyton r in Ku^x, nKetv, at tho close of the but 

 miturjv il eiisteO in w;eh great |>)entj iw to forbid the notion of it* beift^, nt ll>al eariy d\lc> an introdueeJ »pex*iea. 

 The jitant U now marly it^itrotod by rcfaiw, though il oxuiU in ntont than ono vlation in llio neighborhood. 

 Spccunena have been rixvivcd from Sir, SltMjl*rf\l, Mud to have been pithered in Derbjnluro and Y<>rV l iirv. but 

 vithout »oro itartinitar hat il tat* aligned. Tin* tnriout almno >|ationi vhieh have bcrn mportod for this plant 

 jir-lmMv botua^ ratber lo fiionll^ c3iieh*diiideJ forms of O* frwfttir, \V© hare not seen a mountain »poatnca of 

 0, tvjiWj nnleaa it be one from Sid^llebaek, in Cumberland, gntlxTixl manj jxan Miiee bv Sir S. F* Graj'- 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.— Thii clcganl pUnt it plentiful In ounj loealitio* in tho Alpa of Switwriand, 

 CnriTithb, Sti ria, fte II it fbutnl alfc* on the !Vn*iwv» ; oo Mount largptua^ in tta Uam« and on Mount Taurus 

 {lib. IltxJctr)- 



Caudex short, decumbent, ttpivading, tufted, tlie crown sparingly furnished with a few very narrow 

 pale brown scales. Fibres numerous, branched, wiry. 



Stipes variable in length, sometimes quite short, sometimes one-third to one-half tho length of the 



