246 CONSPECTUS POLYOALAKUM KUKOP^ARUM. 



Figs. Wender, I.e., t. 1 ; Reich, I.e., t. mcccxlvii., f. 1 ; Engl. 



Bot., t. clxxxvii. ; Coss. et Germ. Par. Atl., t. viii. f. B. ; 



Journ. Bot., 1877, t. 189, f. 2 (ala, iDistillum, semenqne.) 



Differs from var. 1 chiefly in its more wiry and slender habit 



and the tendency of the lower leaves on the branches, and especially 



those of the sterile branches, to be nearly or quite opposite ; the 



flowers are also somewhat smaller and fewer, and the veins of the 



wing- sepals rather straighter and less anastomosing ; the habitat 



is also distinctly more heathy and swampy. It appears to be 



very generally distributed throughout Continental Europe and the 



British Isles. 



Var. 3. ciliata, Engl. Bot., 3rd ed., vol. ii., p. 36 ; Bab. Man., 

 7th ed., p. 44; Hook. Stud. Flor., 2nd ed., p. 48; A. W. 

 Benn. in Journ. Bot., 1877, p. 170; P. ciliata, Lebel in Gr. 

 et God. El. Fr., i., 195 ; Reich. Ic, xviii., p. 90 (non Linn.) 

 Caulibus tenuibus, flexuosis ; alls, et ssepe quoque bracteis, 

 pedicello, capsulaque, ciliatis. 

 Figs. Reich. I.e., t. mcccxlvi., f. 5; Journ. Bot., 1877, t. 189, 



f. 3 (ala.) 

 Scarcely distinguishable from var. 2 except in the ciliation of 

 the wings and other parts of the flower, a character which may 

 very probably not be constant. It is recorded from isolated 

 localities in Germany, France, Spain, and England ; but may 

 probably be widely distributed through Central, Western, and 

 Northern Europe. 



Var. 4. oxijptera, Reich. Ic, xviii., 90 ; Koch Fl. Germ., 99 ; 



Engl. Bot., 3rd ed., ii., 36 ; Bab. Man., 7th ed., p. 44 ; 



Hook. Stud. Flor., 2nd ed., p. 48; A. W. Benn. in Journ. 



Bot., 1877, p. 170; P. oxyptsra, Reich. PL Crit., i., 25; 



Koch Syn., ed. 1, 91; Fries Nov. Fl. Suec, 224 ; Fl. Scan., 



59 ; Dmrt. Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg., 1868, p. 344; P. angus- 



tata, Schur Fl. Trans., 89 ; P. monspeliaca, Willd. (teste 



Reich.); non DC. ; P. dunensis (?), Dmrt. in Bull. Bot. Soc. 



Belg., 1868, p. 344. Caulibus debilibus ; foliis caulinis 



linearibus ; floribus parvis, distantibus, demum pendulis ; 



alis angustis, mcmbranaceis, quam capsulam maturam Ion. 



gioribus et latioribus ; stylo elongato ; capsula infra rotun- 



data, emarginata, arillodii appendicibus brevibus, obtusis. 



Figs. Reich. PL Crit., L, f. 46-49; Ic, t. mcccxlvi., f. 2; 



E. B. S., 2827; Engl. Bot., t. clxxxvL ; Journ. Bot., 



1877, t. 189, f. 4 (ala, pistillum, semenque.) 



. Easily recognised, in its extreme form, by its smaller, more 



distant and deflexed flowers, and its longer style, together with the 



narrower wing-sej^als, which last character this variety shares with 



a narrow-winged form of P. vulyaris-gemiina, often mistaken for it. 



Its habitat appears to be somewhat arenaceous ; it has been 



recorded from Germany, France, and the British Isles. 



(To he eontinued . J 



