430 Mr. Woops on the Species of Fedia. 
Perhaps the European species might be thus arranged : 
A. Flowers ringent. 
1. F. cornucopie. Upper leaves sessile. Flowers in dichotomous heads; fruit- 
stalks thickening upwards. . 
Coasts of Mediterranean. 
B. Flowers nearly regular. 
a. Fruit with a corky mass at the back of the seed. 
2. F. olitoria. Fruit compressed, oblique. Barren cells without a furrow, 
the dissepiment imperfect. Bractez leafy, dentato-ciliate. Upper leaves 
sometimes toothed at the base. 
3. F. gibbosa. Fruit gibbous (plano-convex). Barren cells each with a fur- 
row at the back. Dissepiment complete. Bractez quite entire. 
Sicily. 
b. Section of the fruit crescent-shaped. Two barren cells. 
4. F. turgida. Fruit cup-shaped, or in external appearance spherical with a 
sector cut out. Crown0. Flowers in heads. 
Rome. 
5. F.carinata. Fruit oblong, boat-shaped, with a simple blunt crown. Flowers 
in heads. Upper leaves sometimes toothed at the base. 
6. F.platyloba. Lobes of the crown with a hooked awn. Calyx somewhat hirsute 
within. Flowers in heads. Upper leaves sometimes toothed at the base. 
Coasts of Mediterranean ? 
c. Barren cells 2, hardly touching in the middle. Divisions of the 
calyx hooked. Flowers in globular heads. Upper leaves gene- 
rally pinnatifid at the base. 
7. F. hamata. Crown a campanulate spreading border, hairless within, ending | 
in 6—12 lobes with obtuse sinuses, and each terminating in a hooked awn. 
South of Europe. 
8. F. coronata. Crown nearly erect, villous within, divided down to the base 
into 6—12 triangular segments. 
South of Europe. : 
9. F. ciliata. Crown of 6 setiform ciliate divisions. 
Athens. 
