816 



tota longitudiiie geramulis globosis, Y2 — 1 V^ lin. longis, incano-Iepidoto- 

 tomentosis 5 confertis remotisque creberrimis obsessis; foliis alternis, 

 vetustioribus e bnsi semiamplexicauli postice vix gibbo-subsaccata subtri- 

 quetro-subulatis obtusiusculis, *2 — 1'/^ — '/, lin. decrescendo longis, supra 

 basin y^ lin. latis, patentibus v. reflexis , serins delabentibus; florali- 

 bus squamaeformibus ovatis concavis, adpressis; bracteis subduplo longio- 

 ribus ac latioribus homomorphis, valde concavis obtusis v. acutiusculis; 

 tloribus alternis confertis cum rhachi reliquisque partibtis adpresse albido- 

 tomentosis ; perigonii pallide rosei omnino (|uinqtiepartiti iaciniis sub anthesi 

 ovato-lanceolatis obtnsiusculis enerviis, 1 % — 1 ^/.^ lin. longis, in fructu erec- 

 tis, villo denso simplici ac biradiato adpresso tomentosis, infra alam sub- 

 nudis basi villosis ; alis infra medium ortis explanatis reniformibns v. 

 late obovatis, a basi imbricatis, 1 — y^ lin. longis, margine integerrimis 

 v. erosis membranaceis, flabelliito-nervosis roseis, demnm fusco-purpu- 

 rascentibus; disco extus staminifero carnosulo cupulari obtuse penta- 

 gono subrepando-truncato, filamentis late linearibus basi haud dilatata 

 discretis, antheris semisagittatis appendicula minuta lanceolata ; stigma- 

 tibus subulatis acutis subpatulis. 



S. gemmascens. Pai.l. lll. jil. p. 24, t. 16 (oplime). 



S. vermiLulala. M. a Biee. Casp. App. p. 145 (excl. syii.: L. et Loefl. ad S. 



vermi( iilafani ; Pallasii ad 8. ligidam; Gmeliiii ad S. verrucosam ; Buxb. ad 



S. ericoidcm spect.). 

 S. veirucosa. Schui-t. Sy.sl. Vegel. VI, p. 233 (nonnisi e descriplione et syn. 



M. a BiEB. casp. ac Pall., reliquis ad spec. gcnuinam speef.). — C. A. MEyER 



Ind. cauc. p. 160 (fide specim. auct. !). — Eichw. casp. cauc. p. 6 (fide spec. 



auct. !). — Claus Ind. des. in Gobel It. II, p. 302 (fide C. A. Meyer). — 



HoHENACK. Enum. Talusck. p. 121 (fide specim.!). — £j. Collect. un. itin. 



No. 2911! — M(iqu.-Ta>d. Chenop. p. 302 (fide scliedui. autograph. in Iierb. 



palatino) nec i:i Dec. Prodr. 

 Caroxylon imbiicatum rt nodulosum. Mo(?u.-Ta>don in Dec. Prodr. XIII, 2, p. 177. 

 Halimocnemis microphylla. Tukcz. coU. p/. monghol. chinens.\ 



Hab. in provinciis caucasicis [in tractu orientali circa Kurt-Btilak (M. a 

 BiEB.), versus m.caspiuml (C. A. Mever), pr. Sallian ! ct fl. Kiir ! (Hohenack.), 

 in m. Araiat! (Hehn p/. exs.)\ et Sibiria uralensi ad lacum Indersk (Claus), 

 in insula Nargin m. caspii! (Ejchvv.). h. 



S. imbricata Forsk. , qiiam ad Caroxylnm snum imbrica- 

 tum refert MoQUlNlus, verosimiliter diversa ; stirpem vero caucasicam 

 eandem esse cum mongiioiicam certus sum. S. a p I) y 1 1 a et tubercu- 

 lata (Caroxylon Saisola et tuberculatum MoauiN-TAiSDON) 

 utraeque sj)ecies capenses , habitu simillimae, foiiis brevioribus iate 

 triquetris ac basi qnasi subsaccatis perigoniique laoiniis giabris a 

 nostra reredniit. — Species certe a plurimis oollectoribus ac auctori- 

 bus ipsoque BiEBErxSTEiNlo ac IMoquinio ptiinum cum Salsola v e r- 

 rucosa genuina, haecque cum S. ericoide ab aliis commutatae 

 videntur. 



2-2. S. Arbuscula (Pall. //. /, (1771) p. 412; App. p. 487, 

 No. 102) fruticosa; trnnco valido squarroso-ramosissimo, ramis vetu- 

 stis rigidissimis crassis , annotinis fascicuiiferis liornotinisque haud 

 articuiatis virgatis simplicissimis ac patule v. patentissime ramulosis, 

 strictissimis, rimosis, cinereis v. candidis nitidis, giabris v. apice inter 

 flores V. tota longitudine setuloso-scabris; foliis alternis linearibus 

 rotundato-trigonis obtusis acutisve mutlcis v. mucronulatis, rectis cur- 



