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Vinca HERBACEA. Herpaceous Periwink Le. 
LREEEREEERER RE EEE 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Monoeyrnia. 
Generic Character. 
Contorta. Folliculi 2, erecti. Sem, nuda. Cor. hypo- 
crateriformis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Vinca herbacea; caulibus herbaceis procumbentibus, foliis 
oblongo-lanceolatis edentulis, calycibus ciliatis. Waldst. 
_ & Kitaib. Pl. rar. Hungar. 1. p. 8. t. 9. 
Vinca herbacea ; caulibus herbaceis prostratis, foliis 
lanceolatis margine glabris, floribus pedunculatis, calyce 
ciliato. Willd. Enum. 274. 
This species is herbaceous, dying every winter down to the 
reots; it grows naturally on open, sandy, and chalk hills in 
Hungary ; and a figure and description of it was first published 
in an excellent and splendid work on the rare plants of that. 
country, by Count Waxpstein and Dr. Krramen. | 
Although the ciliated calyx is given as a specific character, 
it is said in the description to be subciliate, and in our speci- 
mens, if at all, they were so minutely so, that it escaped the 
obseryation of our draughtsman ; the leaves however are 
somewhat ciliated, not smooth at the edge, as WiLLDENow 
has described them. : 
Communicated by our friend Atexanper M‘Leay, Esq. 
from his garden at Godstone, in May last. We have not 
heard of it elsewhere in this country. | 
