212. 
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Tcosandria Peniag. M l l 
alibough. I. have not. seen p dinh diait 
Wie » which would decide the matter. ..E 
location of M. compactum in Hort, Kew. 
.page 191, immediately following its. closest 
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ally in that work, M. rostratum, ought v 
strongly. to favour such an idea, did we not see 
a few pages before the flat-leav'd M. expan 
sum placed between M. umbellatum and M. 
are ; from both of which M. expansum - 
recedes as far as possible. Many years ago, 
when Mr. Donn of Cambridge saw a plant of. 
M. canum (a species somewhat like 4. robus- 
-füm) with me, he said he thought it was M. 
compactum of Kew Garden; in this however 
^e was mistaken, as the descriptions will: 
clearly shew 5 but his idea of. M, compactum 
helps also to shew that it may be the same as 
JM. robustum, or at.least that it greatly re- 
. sembles that — It is niano e now to 
clear up this point ; 
quadrifid Beak'd). subacaule, f foliis subu- 
dari 3 obtusis glaucis, punctis rarissimis, ca c 
"quadrifido. rd dn qnisc. mat. 
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Pttrionbur rove punctatis, - m nat. 
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