840 



Lusus a. ProIIxior , floribus remolis, rhachi plerumque flexuosa. — Vulga- 

 tissinius. 



Hab. iii Rossla australl! (M. a Bieb.) [in salsis ad Berezan (Szovits), Cherson 

 (Eicnw.), ins. Taman (Lebeb.), pr. Astrachan (Cr.AiJs,.BLiiM fl. exs.), in dcs. casp. 

 (Ci.AUs), Sarepta! (Hohenack.), Kislar! (Steven)], piovinciis caucasicis 

 [versus lu. casp.! (Pali... C. A. Meyer)] , Sibiria uralensi [circa Gur- 

 jewsk! (Pall.) et litt. orient. m. casp. (Karel. pl. exs.)] ct altaica [in 

 desert. soongoro-kirghisico! (Fl. alt.), Alakul! (Schrenk), Tuba ! (Schrenk), 

 Karakirgis! (Schrenk), Turcomaniiia scytensi ! (Karel.;]. ©. 



3. H. glauca (C. A. Meyer Fl. alt. I , p. 38')) annua, pube 

 densa brevi adpressa canescens 5 caule nunc erecto , nunc cum 

 rainis haud fragilibus prostrato, basi quasi niulticauli-brachiato- , ulte- 

 rius alterne-ramoso ac rainosissimo, |)lerutnc|ue valde folioso, ramulis flori- 

 geris tunc copiosissimis eximie confertifloris abbreviatis onusto; foliis car- 

 nosis e dilatata basi semitereti-tiliformibus acutis mucronulatis v. muticis 

 patenti-recurvis, 3 — 9 lin. longis ac ^,4 — 1 lin. latis, floralibus homo- 

 morphis , bracteis 2 — 3plo ultraque longioribus ; bracteis ovatis v. 

 ovalibus obtuse navicularibus, herbaceo-acuminatis, apice recurvis acutis, 

 flores sub anthesi aequantibus v. dimidio superantibus, demum inferius 

 coriaceis ; floribus confertissimis ad speciem glomerato-spicatis, sub 

 anthesi 7+ '"i. longis; perigonii nunc pentaphylli 5-andri foliolis lan- 

 ceolatis acuminatis apice pilosis , nunc 2 — 3- rarissime 4-phylIi 2 — 4- 

 andri foliolis binis externis ovatis acutis apice subbarbatis v. omnino 

 nudis, reliquis angustioribus ianceolatis, omnibus demum distincte ac 

 tenuissiine membranaceo-unguiculatis , media parte pergameneis; disco 

 summo margiiie staminifero obsoletissimo; fllamentis basi haud dilatata 

 discretis; antheris semisagittato-linearibus , sub anthesi appendicula 

 brcvissima, nunc ovata integra, nunc 2 — 3dentata v. cristata congluti- 

 natis; stylo bifido- v. subpartito , cruribus stigmatosis elongatis seta- 

 ceis; seminis radicula adscendente, vix semisupera. 



H. glauca. Lessing in Linnaea JX, p. 198. — Claus Ind. des. in Gobel It, II, 



p. 301. — Leveille in Demidoff Votf. dans la Russie meridion. II, 170. 

 a. oligandra: Perigonio 2-, quandoque 3-, rarissime sparsimque 4phylIo, 2 — 4andro. 



Lusus 1 . Digitalis v. palmarls erecta, ramis basilaribus paucis graclllbus, sub- 

 simplicibus arcu magno adscendentibus ; herba serius calve.scens. 

 Halimocnemis glauca (Herb. Ledeb. e specim. altaicis in it. suo lectis!). 



Lusus Z. Herba tota humifusa, ramosissima, densc pubescens. 



Halimocnemis glauca (Mus. Petrop. , fide specim. commun. in Grusia lect. ac 



Pallasli in herb. jAC(itJ.!, exactissime cum ej. icone illustr. t. 53. quadrantis). 



Polycnemum triandrum. Pall. It. I, app. p. 483. e descriptionis parle ad 



Tab. E, f. 1. spectante probabilius, quain ad H. Volvocem , quacum pri- 



mum comniutavisse videtur. 



/J. pentandra: Perigonio 5-phylIo, .n-andro. — Lusus praecedentis. 



Halimocnemis glauca. C. A. Me\er l. c. — Moqu.-Tand. Chenop. p. 153; in 



Dec. Prodr. XIII, 2, p. I98. 

 Polycnemum glaucum. Pall. III. pl. p. 63 , t. 53. (lus. prostratus) , t. 54. (lus. 

 erectus, nisi forte ad H. crassifoliae lusum pumilum densiflorum referenda). 



Hab. inRossia australi [ad Wolgam intcr Sarepta et Astrachan (Claus)], 

 Tauria ad Pharuni Parthcnion (Leveili.k), provincHs caucasicis, in 

 Grusia! (Herb. Acad. Petrop.) inque Sibiria uralensi! (Pall. , Lessing, 

 Claus) et altaica in deserto soongoro-kirghisico ! (Fl. alt.). ©. 



Species ulterlus investiganda, valde suspecta, inter H. m o n a n d r a ni, 



