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doubtful. The variet}^ Boisftieri, cl escribed as a distinct species by 

 Cosson, seems hardly to merit this distinction ; it is recorded only 

 from Alpine localities in the Sierra Nevada. The variety tomen- 

 tella, originall}' described by Boissier as a form of the Asiatic 

 P. pruhumi, appears to me to have been erroneously referred by 

 him subsequently to P. niccBensia. 



P. netjlecta, Kern. (Hungary), foliis rigidis, linearibus, is clearly, 

 I thmk, a form of this s^jecies. 



Var. /3. Bnmieri ; foliis caulinis paucioribus angustioribus. 

 P. Boissieri, Coss., Notes, 100; Willk. et Lge., Fl. Hisp., 

 iii., 559 (sp.) P. rosea, Boiss., Voy. in Esp., ii., p. 81. Sierra 

 Nevada m Hispania. 



Var. y. hcEtica ; caulibus debilibus ; bracteis non comantibus ; 

 capsula obcordato-siDathulata. F. hcetica, Willk. et Lge., 

 n. Hisp., iii., 559. In sylvis Bseticae australis. 



Var. 3. towentella : tota planta pilis mollioribus obtecta. P. 

 nicaensia, var. tumentcUa, Boiss., Fl. Or., i., 475. P. pruiiiosa 

 (in parte), Boiss., Diag., ser. 1, i., 8; Griseb., Fl. Kum., 

 i., 240. Mr. J. S. Mill has gathered this form in Attica 

 and N. Eubcea. 



11. P. ANATOLicA, Boiss., Diag., ser. 2, i., 57; Fl. Or., i., 474. 



" P. caulibus erectis, subsimplicibus ; foliis caulinis lineari- 

 bus vel lineari-lanceolatis ; racemis elongatis; alis anguste 

 ovatis, basi cuneatis, leviter ciliatis ; corolla alas multo 

 excedente, pulchre cristata ; ovario longe stipitato ; capsula 

 obcuneata vel obcordata, stipitem vix excedente." 



In Bosnia et Crimea legitur ; crescit quoque in Armenia, 

 Georgia, et Asia Minore. 



Closely allied to P. vmjor : distinguished chiefly by its weaker 

 habit, narrower and ciliated wing-sepals, and the flowers, which 

 are not quite so large, somewhat drooping after withering. 



Var. /3. florihiinda, Boiss., Biagn., ser. 2, v., 49 ; Fl. Or., i., 

 474; racemis elongatis, densioribus. Crimea (?) et Ar- 

 menia. 



12. P. ROSEA, Desf., Atl., ii., 128; DC, Prodr., i., 324; Willk. 



et Lge., Fl. Hisp., iii., 558 (?) ; (non Eeich. ; Gr. et God. ; 

 Boiss., Voy. Bot. Esp., ii., 81 ; et aliorum auctorum). 

 P. caulibus C£espitosis, virgatis ; floribus grandibus, insig- 

 nibus, roseis ; racemis elongatis, baud comosis laxiusculis ; 

 bracteis lateralibus ovatis, quam pedicellum dimidio bre- 

 vioribus, capsula quam alas duplo breviore, profunde emar- 

 ginata, quam stipitem plusquam bis longiore. 



Fig. Desf., Atl., t. 176. 



In Hispania australi, rarissima ; necnon in Algeria. 



A very distinct species, and clearly belonging to tlie same 



