CJ. V. Pentandria. 275 



Radix siolonihus fillformibus repens. Caules eoli- 

 tarii, erecti, tenues, 4 — adsummum 7 pollicares, substriati, 

 glabri, inferne foliosi, racemo terminali. Folia injima sub- 

 radicalla, squameformia, conferla, elliptica, sesqui vel qua- 

 tuor lineas louga, llneam lata, obtusa, integerrima, enervia, 

 glabra; reliqua sensim longiora, poUicaria vel sesquipollica- 

 ria, radicalibus vix angustiora, acutiuscula. Racemua 

 longitudinem totius fere caulis occupat. Bracteae sursum 

 decrescentis , inferiores haud raro ad medium caulis usque 

 et subinde etiam supremae steriles j exterior lateralibus duplo 

 vel triplo longior atque latior, pedunculos plerumque supe- 

 rans. Flores breviter pedicellati, extus \irides, intus lu- 

 tescentes. Calyx tuho campanulato; liviho quinquefido, 

 explanato: laciniis oblongis, obtusis, integerrimis. Stylus 

 stamina superans, calycem subaequans. Nux globosa, 5-co- 

 stata, caeterum laevis, lineam circiter longa, pedicello cla- 

 vato lutescente insidens, calyce involuto plus duplo longior. 



2) Thesium ramosum. Hayne, 



Th, racemoso-ramosum, foliis oblongo-linearibus 



subtrinerviis, nuce oblonga calyce deflorato triplo 



longiori, bractea exteriori leteralibus florem ae- 



quantibus duplo longiori. 



Th. ramosum. Hayne in Schraders Journal f, d. Botan. 



1800. /. p. 30. t, VII. ■— Schult. Syst. veg. V. 



p. 580. 'No. 6. — S^reng. Syst. veg. L p. 829. 



No. 3. — M. a Bieh. Fl. taur. cauc. I. p, 175. 



No. 439. — Besser. En. pl. Kolh. p. 53. No. 14:72. 



— Mertens et Koch Deutschl. Fl. II. p. 283. No. 760. 



— Reichenb. Iconogr. crit. V. p. 32. t, CCCCI.IV. 

 /. 646. 



Th. Linophyllum. Patrin, Florul. harnaul. Msc. 

 Hab. ad radicem collium prope Riddersk (L.) Alexandrowsk 

 (M.), Salair, Nikolajew 2|.. FI. Majo. 



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