106 DICOTYL.— CALYCIFLORAE 



I. C. scorploldes. — Flores 1-4, exigui, cerniii, terminales 

 vel axillares, umbellati, involucrali, involucro deciduo; scapiis 

 glaber, solitarius, folio longior aut aequalis aut brevior; pe- 

 dicelli crassi, calyce brevissimo breviores, bracteati; calyx 

 turbinato-campanulatus, dentibus exiguis, e basi lata trian- 

 gulo-acutis, duobus labii superioris inferne connatis; corolla 

 lutea, calyce triplo longior; vexillum striis rubellis pictum; 

 carina viridula; lomentum arcuato-incurvatum, vix rostella- 

 tum, stylo persistente terminatum, glabrum, poUicari-sesqui- 

 pdllicare, subtetragonum, subrepandura; semen longiusculum, 

 teres, curvulum, hylo in medio lateris convexi; caulis subte- 

 res seu subangulatus, decumbens, adscendens vel erectus, du- 

 riusculus, inferne alterne romosus, a palmo ad quindecim 

 pollices longus, subinde plures ex eadem radice; folia alter- 

 na, sessilia, ima simplicia, cuneato-oblonga, obtusa vel acuta, 

 rarius trifoliolata, foliolo impari maximo, late ovali-elliptico, 

 longiuscule petiolulato, lateralibus multo minoribus, oblique 

 cordatis, subrotundis, brevissime petiolulatis, cauli patenter 

 oppositis, omnibus carnosulis, obtusis, integerrimis; petioli 

 brevissimi; stipula parva, albo - membranacea, oppositifolia, 

 connata, acute bidentata, dentibus subinde erosulis; hracteolae 

 exiguae, membranaceae, acutae vel acuminatae, umbellam basi 

 leviter involucrantes; radix fusiformis, crassiuscula, simplex 

 vel lateraliter ramulosa, fibrillosa, longa, alba. 



Floret Aprili, Majo. 0, 



Aetnae, in saxosis vulcanicis herbosis pedemontanae et ne- 

 morosae regionis: Milo, Zaffarana, Trecastagni, Viagrande, 

 Battiati, Catania. 



Icon. Lam. III. 7. tah. 631. fig. 4. — Sibth. et Smith Fl. 

 Gr. 8. pag. 11. tah. 715. — Cav. Ic. et Descript. 1. pag. 26. 

 tah. 37. 



Coronilla scorpioides. Koch. Syn. pag. 188. — Guss. Syn. 

 Fl. Sic. 2. pag. 302.—Moris Fl. Sard. l.pag. 537.—Torn. 

 Fl. Sic. pag. 211. — Arcang. Comp. della Fl. Ital. p. 190. 



Ornithopus scorpioides. Lin. Sp. Pl. pag. 1049. — Sihth. et 

 Smiih loc. cit. — Ten. Fl. Nap. 4. in Syll. pag. 105. — Cav. 

 loc. cif. 



Ornithopodium scorpioides. Scop. Carn. 2. ed. 2. pag. 72. 

 All. Fl. Ped. 1. pag. 336. 



Artrolobium scorpioides, DC. Prodr. 2. pag. 311. — Bert. 

 Fl. It. 7. pag. 589.—De$v. in Journ. de Bot. 3. pag. 121. 



