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Boiss., F1.0r.,i., 476. P.ainaraf^.alpestns, and ^.aljnnciy'DC., 

 Prodr., i., 825 ; Led., Fl. Ross., i., 773. P. vulgaris y. alpestris, 

 Woods, Tour. Flor., 43. P. amara b. aJpina, Eeich., Ic, xviii., 

 89. P. Morrisiana, Reich. Ic, xviii., 91. P. hybrida, Koch, 

 Linnsea, xv., 706 (non DC), teste Led. 

 Figs. Reich., PI. Crit., f. 45 ; Ic, mcccxlvii., f. 2, 8 ; mcccxlviii., 



f. 4. . 



In pratis alpinis. 

 Only distinguished from the typical form by its Alpine habit. 



Var. y. uUf./inosa, Engl. Bot., 3rd ed., ii., 40; Reich., Ic, xviii., 

 89 ; Woods, Tour. Flor., 43 ; Bab. Man., 7th ed., 45 ; A. W. 

 Benn. in Journ. Bot., 1877, p. 174. P.uliyinusa, Fiies, Fl. 

 Scan., 59 ; Gr. et God., Fl. Fr., i., 198. Planta nana, caule 

 tenuiore, racemo densiore, capsula obcuneata. 

 Figs. Reich PI. Crit., f. 40, 41 ; Ic, t. mcccxlviii., f. 2 ; Engl. 



Bot., t. 189. 

 In nliginosis in Europa boreali centralique. 



Distinguished chiefly by the capsule being narrowed below, and 

 by its distinctly more boggy habitat. The flowers are described as 

 being always pink. The English (Teesdale) form is very dwarf, 

 and the raceme is more compact ; Reichenbach's description and 

 figures are scarcely distinguishable from the typical P. amara. 



The varieties of this species (a-^) named inDeCandolle's 'Prodro 

 mus ' are again very difficult to determine, and some of them probably 

 only accidental forms, y. cespitosa is almost certainly P. depressa. 



4l. p. forojulensis, Kern, in Oester. Botan. Zeitschr., 1874, p. 102. 



P. foliis linearibus, imis latioribus, sat confertis ; racemis 



abbreviatis, confertis, subconicis, baud comosis ; bracteis 



parvis ; floribus subsessilibus ; sepalis exterioribus lan- 



ceolatis, quam alas \ brevioribus ; alis subrotundis, bre- 



vissime unguiculatis, vix venatis ; corollae crista magna 



pulchra, exserta ; petalis lateralibus quam ciistam lon- 



gioribus, pulchre dichotomo-venosis ; capsula sessili, obcor- 



dato-obovati, quam alas duplo angustiore et breviore, 



anguste alata ; seminibus parvis. 



Ad rupes apricas in vaUe Tagliamento Alpium Venetianarum. 



This P<Atj(/ala, brought by Th. Pichler from a single spot 



in the Venetian Alps, and described by Kerner, seems to merit the 



rank of a distinct species. The very short crowded racemes, with 



almost sessile flowers, at the extremity of slender branches densely 



clothed with very narrow leaves, give it a habit of its own, which 



Kerner compares to that of dwarf specimens of P. major. The 



form of the wing- sepals resembles that of P. nicceensis, but the 



flower and whole plant are smaller, and there is no approach to a 



comose appearance of the raceme ; the very short pedicels and 



other characters seem to distinguish it from the other species of 



this section. I have seen specimens only in the herbarium of the 



British Museum. 



