399 



Var. majus; duplo majus, ramis patentissimis. — L. Braziliense. 

 Raddi, Fil, Bras. t. 1. / 1. Jig. inf. et Jig. 1. a. — L. palli- 

 dum. ^^ Beyrich?" Gaudich. in Freyc. Voy. v.\. p. 285. 

 Hab. ec. From Canada {Douglas) to Pennsylvania. Brazil. 

 Raddi. Swainson. /3. Brazil. Raddi. Macrae. Pichincha in 

 Peru. Professor JV. Jameson. — This seems to hold an in- 

 termediate rank between L. Helveticum and L. apodum. It 

 is paler coloured than the former, has a coarser reticulation, 

 and more spinulose margins to the leaves, which are ovate, 

 broader, more acute, and the stipules remarkably acuminated; 

 the spikes shorter, with longer and more spreading scales. 

 174. L. apodum. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1568.— Dill. Muse. t. 64. 



Hab. West Indies and Southern States of North America. 

 This differs from L. alhidulum, in its laxer and more creeping 

 stems, more distant leaves, which are also rounder, paler, 

 more membranaceous, less distinctly ciliated, much more 

 coarsely reticulated, more pellucid, and furnished with a dis- 

 tinct slender acumen. Stipules with a more aristate point, 

 and smaller in proportion to the size of the leaves. 

 1T5. L. pusillum. Desv. Prod. Fil. in Ann. Soc. Linn. Par. 

 V. 6. p. 189. 



Hab. Isle of Bourbon. Desvaux. Mauritius. Bouton. — 

 Our specimens of this plant, which sufficiently agree with the 

 character given by Desvaux, are of the size and have the 

 general habit of L. Helveticum. The colour is dark bluish- 

 green above, pale and almost silvery beneath ; the texture of 

 the leaves and stipules is comparatively thick and coriaceous; 

 the leaves are furnished at the base of the upper margin with 

 a very distinct, narrow, lunate, diaphanous auricle, which is 

 wholly omitted in the description of Desvaux. The stipules 

 are rather obovate than oval, with a narrow white margin, 

 which is denticulated as well as the long reflexed and stout 

 diaphanous terminal pair, and have two auricles at the base, 

 one very small, the other considerably lengthened. 



176. L. boreale. Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 17. 

 Hab. Kamtschatka. Chamisso. 



