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Tragium peregriuuin. 8pr. Sp. UmheU. pag. 135, et Syst. 

 Veg. 1. pag. 884. 



2. P. Tragium. — Flores parvuli, umbellato-compositi, um- 

 bella terminali, solitaria, parva, quinque-novemradiata; sca- 

 ims seu pedunciilus 5-6 poll. longus, striatus, viridis, gla- 

 ber, erectus; pedicelli semiradii et radioli tenues, glabri, nu- 

 di, nubiles nutantes; cali/x margine obsoletus; petala exlgua, 

 alba, obcordata, aequalia, ciliolata; stamina petalis breviora; 

 ovarimn hirtum; styli elongati, in fructu divaricati aut re- 

 curvati, stilopodiis brevibus, tumidis, g-ranulosis, super rece- 

 ptaculum positis; diachenium parvum, ovoideum, subglobosum, 

 fuscura, pilosum, pilis aliquando uncinatis, albo-flavis, ma- 

 gnitudine varium; mericarpia et semen ut in genere; catdes 

 plures ex eadem radice, caespitosi, lignescentes, adscenden- 

 tes, crassi, simplices vel ramosi, plerumque superne tecti 

 vaginis, reliquiisque petiolorum exsiccatis, terminati caule an- 

 notino, tenui, tereti, leviter striato, alterne ramoso, ramis 

 patulis, in locis siccis et ripidis a paucis pollibus ad dodran- 

 tem longi et in fertilibus pedali-bipedales, pubescenti - fari- 

 nacei aut glauco-albescentes aut glabri; folia coriacea, rigi- 

 dula, pinnata, in parte superiore caulium lignescentium ap- 

 proximata, conferta, farinaceo-pubesceutia vel glauco - albe- 

 scentia vel glabra, foliolis subrotundis, ovatis aut oblongis, 

 basi cordatis vel cuneatis, latiusculis aut angustis, acute den- 

 tatis et saepe incisis, impari plerumque trifido aut tripartito, 

 petiolata, petiolo tenui, striato, basi expanso in vaginam bre- 

 vem, latiusculam, acutara, strictam, saepe rubentem, margine 

 membranaceo-albo; in caule annotino folia pauca, multo mi- 

 nora, alterna, sita sub ramis, foliolis lineari-pinnatifidis, la- 

 ciniis brevibus, integris aut parce incisis, suffulta vagina pe- 

 liolari angusta, longiuscula, canaliculata; suprema, inque ra- 

 mis vaginae petiolares tantum, terminatae folio ramentaceo, 

 lineari, simplici vel tripartito, subinde nullo; radix fusiforrais, 

 praelonga, fibrillis lateralibus paucis, sursum multiceps. 



Floret Julio, Augusto. %. 



Aetnae, in regione pedemontana: Catania, Battiati, Ogni- 

 na, Acicastello. 



Icon. Cup. Panph. 1. ed. Bihl. Pan. tah. 71. sub nomine: 

 Pimpinella minor, saxifraga, Apiifolio, lohulis suhroiundis. 



