CONSPECTUS POLYfrALARTIM EUROP^ARUM. 271 



foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, margine incrassatis, infimis mi- 

 noribus, subobovatis ; bracteis lateralibus peclicellum. sub- 

 asquantibus ; sei)alis exterioribus linearibus ; alls anguste 

 oblongis, acutis, corollse tiibum aequantibus ; ca^DSula sub- 

 sessili ; arillodii appendicibus brevibus. 



Syn. p. simila, Presl. P. elomjata, Presl, Fl. Sic, i., 136 ; 

 Spreng., Syst., iv., t. 263 (non Klein., Willd.) 



Fig. Guss., Fl. Sic, t. 363. 



In Sicilia ; ubique in apricis demissis vel montosis. 



This species, which has not yet been gathered on the Continent, 

 comes nearest to P. nicceensis, from which it is, however, at once 

 distinguished by the narrowness of all the sepals, and especially of 

 the wing-sepals, which are often acuminate, and by the leaves 

 being broader in proportion to their length : it a]Di)roaches P. major 

 in the greater length of the corolla in proportion to the wing- 

 sepals, the crest being distinctly exserted. There is also a close 

 affinity with P. venulosa of Greece. Caruel describes the wing- 

 sepals as greenor white, rarely rose-coloured, while the corolla is 

 rose-coloured. 



c. Bracts longer than pedicel ; the raceme therefore comose. 



7. P. coMosA, Schkuhr, Bot. Handb., ii., 324; Eeich., PL Crit., i., 

 27; ic, xviii., 90; Koch, Fl. Germ., 99; Gr. & Godr., 

 Fl. Fr., i., 195; Willk. et Lge., Fl. Hisp., iii., 557; Led., 

 Fl. Boss, i., 271; Griseb., FL Rum., L, 239; Fries, Fl. Scan., 

 59, et Nov. Fl. Suec, 225 ; Boiss., Fl. Or., L, 475; Woods, 

 Tour. Flor., 43; Car. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. It., L, 22. 

 P. foliis lineari-lanceolatis, infimis subobovatis ; bracteis 

 subpersistentibus, pedicellum aequantibus, et ante anthesim 

 quam alabastrum longioribus ; alls ovalibus, corollam 

 asquantibus, ovario basi et apice cuneiformi, ovarii stipitem 

 Eequante ; stylo elongato ; capsula breviter stipitata, obcor- 

 data, quam alas breviore sed sublatiore-; arillodii appendi- 

 cibus dimidium seminis attingentibus vel longioribus. 



Syn. p. cuh/aris, y. elata and r;, <irandifiora, DC, Prodr., L, 325; 

 P. Iii/lnida, and P. podoJica, ibid., 325 ; Schur., Fl. Trans., 

 90 ; Led., Fl. Ross., i., 271. F. Corsica, Bor. P. pede- 

 montana, Perr. et Verl. in Bull. Soc de Fr., x., 757. 



Figs. Reich., PL Crit., f. 54-50; Ic, t. mcccxlvL, f. 4. 



Per Europam meridionalem et centralem usque ad Goth- 

 landiam ; in Insulis Biitanicis non invenitur ; in Italia 

 rara ; crescit quoque in Asia Minore, et Turkestan. 



This species approaches very closely to the more luxuriant 

 forms of P. vulfjaris, from which it is difficult to distinguish it, ex- 

 cept by the comose appearance of the unopened portion of the 

 raceme caused 1)y the longer bracts ; the capsule has also a some- 

 what longer stipes, and the withered flowers havo a tendency to 



