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rONSPKCTT'S POLYGAT.AEUM EUROPiTlARUM. 



inclined to place the Berks plant to G. (fermanica than to G. Ama- 

 rella. Early-flowering states of the former have been already 

 recorded. It is remarkable that the spring-flowering forms of 

 both species should vary in precisely the same manner, with 

 4-merons flowers and two of the calyx- segments much increased 

 in size. 



CONSPECTUS POLYGALARUM EUROP^ARUM. 

 By Alfred W. Bennett, M.A., B.Sc, F.L.S. 



(Concluded from p. •-24fi). 



Var. 5. anr/H.stifolm : annua (?) ; ditfert a forma typica habitu 

 graciliore, alis obovatis, capsula multo angustioribus. P. 

 anifustifolia, Lge., Pug., 317 ; Willk. et Lge., Fl. Hisp., iii., 

 557 (non H. B. K.) In Hispania boreali. 



Yar. G. <irandif1ora, Bab. Man., 7th ed., 44; Engl. Bot., 3rd 

 ed., ii., 35'; Hook., Stud. Flor., 2nd ed., 48; A. W. Benn. 

 in Journ. Bot., 1877, p. 171 (non DC.) Foliis supernis 

 magnis, lanceolatis, marginibus incrassatis et pauUo revo- 

 lutis ; alis late ellipticis, apiculatis ; floribus magnis, 

 caeruleis. 

 Fig. Journ. Bot., 1877, t. 190 et t. 189, f. 5 (ala.) 

 A very remarkable, almost shrubby form, with somewhat the 

 habit of P. Chain (fhiu-us, the leaves decidedly coriaceous, and the 

 root-leaves considerably smaller than the upper ones, the wing- 

 sepals broad and usually distinctly apiculate. This variety has at 

 present been gathered only on Ben Bulben, Co. Sligo, Ireland, 

 though a form approximating in some of its characters occurs in 

 the Eastern Pyrenees. 



Var. 7. CarueUana (sp.), Burn. MS. Caulibus tenuibus, debi- 

 libus, decumbentibus ; foliis infimis obovatis, caulinis 

 oblanceolatis vel lineari-lanceolatis ; racemis laxis, baud 

 comosis ; bracteis j)arvis, membranaceis, ovato-lanceolatis ; 

 pedicellis gracilibus ; sepalis exterioribus lanceolatis ; alis 

 viridibus, obliquis, lanceolatis. 



This is a very remarkable form, kindly communicated to me 

 by Prof. Caruel, gathered by E. Burnat under chestnut-trees 

 between Carrara and Colonnata, and which I retain only after 

 considerable hesitation simjDly as a variety of P. ruhjaris. The 

 gi-een falcate wing-sepals are altogether peculiar among European 

 forms, and present a striking resemblance to a prevalent tropical 

 Asiatic type, w^th which, however, the x^lant cannot be associated, 

 on account of the terminal racemes, sessile anthers, the form of 

 the style, and other considerations. The habit is altogether that 

 of P. depressa, and in no other essential character does it appear 

 to difter from this protean species. 



