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stata. A comparison of the specimens from the Chev. de Steven, in the herba- 
rium of Sir J. E. Smith, with the description in the Moscow Transactions, has 
convinced me that the first of these belongs to the Selenocele, and is a spe- 
cies which I have gathered at Rome. "The second, found by Gasparini on.the 
mountains of the Madonia, and published by Gussone in the Flore Sicule 
Prodromus, is supposed by De Candolle to be nearly allied to V. turgida. The 
figure of the fruit, however, which he has given in the Mémoire sur la Famille 
des Valérianées, is hardly distinguishable from that of 7. olitoria, from which 
this plant seems chiefly to differ by its. quite entire bractez. The third is 
from the South of Tauria. It is described as smaller than the two preceding, 
and as having a deep furrow on each barren cell. I have seen no specimen of 
either of the two last. 
| Div. 2. PsIıLocÆLÆ. 
In following the order of the Prodromus, we now come to the Psilocele, 
although some of the Selenocælæ appear to be more closely allied to the Lo- 
custc both in habit and in artificial character. De Candolle has two subdivi- 
sions of Psilocele. The first, with recurved teeth, contains V. uncinata (fig. 2.) 
and V. echinata. The former is a plant from Caucasus, which has two distinct 
barren cells at the base of the fruit, but much smaller than the fertile one. A 
section of the upper part of the seed-vessel exhibits, besides the fertile cell 
which extends into the crown, three other openings filled with a white pith- 
like substance. That near the base shows also a pith-filled opening on the 
side of each barren cell. In V. echinata, the second cell is nearly as large as 
the fertile one, and it is uniformly this cell, and not that containing the seed, 
which is prolonged into the largest horn ;—the three horns which terminate 
the fruit being in this species a prolongation of the cells, and not a distinct 
calyx. This description seems inconsistent with the admission of this plant 
among the Psilocele, where it is nevertheless placed by Soyer Willemet as 
well as by De Candolle. Of the five species forming the subdivision marked 
by an erect calyx, V. Morisonii var. B. leiocarpa, is according to De Candolle 
the Fedia dentata of Engl. Bot. t. 1370.; but he also cites Reichenbach, Pl. Cr. 
t. 62. (fig. 3.), and the same work, /. 63., for the V. Morisonii «. with hairy 
fruit. Both these figures appear to me to represent varieties of F. eriocarpa, 
while that of Engl. Bot. is either F. dentata, or its variety F. mixta. The latter 
