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PlIYTEUMA BETONICIFOLIUM. BeTONY-LEAVED 



Rampion. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. rotata, 5-partita, laciniis linearibus. Stigma 2-,s, 

 3-fidum. Caps. 2-,s. 3-locularis, infera. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Phyteuma betonicifolium ; spica oblonga, foliis simpliciter 

 crenatis : radicalibus lanceolato-cordatis, caulinis lan- 

 ceolatis. Willd. Sp. PL I. p. 922. Persoon Syn. I. 

 p. 194. 



Phyteuma betonicifolia ; foliis cordatis oblongis crenatis, 

 spica oblonga. Villars Delph. 2. p. 518. t. 12. / 3. 



Phyteuma scorzonerifolium ; spica elongata cylindrica, flori- 

 bus inferioribus remotis, foliis lanceolatis crenatis : 

 superioribus linearibus. Willd. Enum 215. Villars 

 Delphin.% p. 519. t. 12. f. 2. 



We were favoured with this plant by Mr. Jenkins, of the 

 Botanical Nursery, Gloucester-place, New-Road, in July 

 last, under the name of P. scorzonerifolium, but we cannot find 

 any distinguishing characters between this and the betonici- 

 folium of Villars, which latter name we prefer, as having 

 been adopted by Willdenow in his Species Plantarum. For 

 although this author has afterwards taken up scorzonerifolium 

 also in his Enumeratio, with his characters of which our 

 plant corresponds, except that the radical leaves are more or 

 less cordate, while those on the lower part of the stem are 

 lanceolate, and supported on very long footstalks. Villars 

 describes betonicifolium as having its radical leaves cordate, 



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