27G Cl. V. Pentandria. 



Ra3ix subligDOsa, multiceps. Caules plures, § — 1 

 pedales, obliqui, inferne simplices. Folia margine magis 

 yel minu3 «cabra, subinde (in umbrosis nata) glabra. Ra- 

 cemi inferiores inferne subinde racemulos emiltunt duos 

 ve\ tres , multiiloros . apice vero in racemum simplicem 

 elongantur. 



GmeL Fl. sib, III. p. 38. No. 30. plures species confudit 



3) Thesium multicaule. m. 

 Th. cauliLus supra medium ramosis: ramis inferne 

 foliosis cauleque racemo simplici terminatis, fo- 

 liis sublinearibus enerviis, nuce oblongo-cylin- 

 ^racea calyce deflorato duplo vel triplo longiori, 

 bractea exteriori lateralibus bis vel ter superante. 

 Th. multicaule. Ledeh, Ic. pl. Fl. ross. alt, iUusir. 

 t. 237. 

 H-db. in collibus arenosis ad fl. Irtysch supra forlalitium 

 Buchtarminsk (M.) 4. Fl. Jun. 



Radix crassa, lignosa, albido-lutescens, superne sim- 

 plex; iuferne in ramos elougalos, crassiusculos, varie flexos, 

 profunde in solum arenosum intrantes; apice in crura, ali- 

 (|uot multicaulia divisa. Caules plures, erecti, stricti, ses- 

 qui-vel bipedaies, striato-sulcati, angulati, basi albido-iu- 

 tescentes, caelerum glauco- virides, ad medium usque sim- 

 plices, foliati, medio ramis aucti, racemo terminati, Rami 

 vnferioyes plerumque steriles; superiores inferne foliis ali- 

 quot Biuuiti, in racemum simplicem elongati. Folia sparsa; 

 i?ifima ad squamas reducta: reliqua sublin«aria vel oblongo- 

 linearia , pollicem circiter longa, vix lineam lata, obtusa, 

 apic« cartiiagineo albo, integerrima , margine, lutescente, 

 giaberrima, enervia. Racemi simplices, erecti, stricti; 

 ierminalis 9 pollices longus vel longior; iaterates 3 — 6 pol- 

 licares. Pedunculi infra bracteas semipollicares ; supe' 

 riores parum breviores. Bracteae tresj exterior oblongo- 



