PiLatE XXXIV. 
GLOBULARIA Atypvum, Linn. 
Natural Order GLoBULARIES. 
Section of genus Alypum having a shrubby growth. 
Guy. CuHar.—Calyxz 5-lobed. Corolla monopetalous, hypogynous. 
Stamens 4, inserted on the tube of the corolla. Ovary free, 1-celled ; 
cell containing 1 pendulous ovule. Style 1; stigma bifid. Fruit on 
utricle. Embryo straight; radicle turned towards the hilum. Koch 
(D.), Syn. Fl. Germ. 1. 512. 
Spec. Cuar.—Receptacle hairy, covered with linear, hairy, caducous 
scales. Corolla bilabiate ; wpper lip very short, bifid; lower lip long, 
ligulate, tridentate. Growth shrubby, perennial, 1-2 feet high. 
Globularia Alypum, Linn. Sp. Plant. p. 189; Gren. et Godr. Fl. de — 
Fr. ii. 756; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 303. 
Hasirat.—Warm rocky exposures on nummulitic and Jurassic 
limestone. October to March. 
RemaRks.—Some authors—Grenier and Godron, Koch, and others 
—assert that Globularia has properly five stamens, the uppermost 
being reduced to a rudiment by abortion, and place Globularies close 
to Plumbaginew. Lindley, however (Veg. Kingd. Lond. 1846, p. 666), 
considers the Order as more nearly related to the Teazels (Dipsacez). 
Maurice Wilkomm, in a monograph of Globulariez, says, in a foot- 
note on page 11,—“‘ According to the opinion of many authors, the 
stamens of Globularias are reduced to four, by the abortion of the 
upper stamen, which ought to be inserted between the segments of the 
upper lip ; but with the exception of the rather prominent nerve in the 
upper lip of G. incanescens, which one might consider as an aborted 
stamen, one does not find in any species the least trace of a fifth sta- 
men.” Globularia Alypum, Linn., is a rare Huropean plant, found at 
intervals along the French shore of the Mediterranean, the western 
part of Italy, and in Sicily. I have also seen specimens from Greece 
and Smyrna in the Hookerian Herbarium at Kew.* The specimens 
figured were gathered above Pont St. Louis in November, 1864. 
EXPLANATION. OF Prats XXXIV.—Fig. 1, the receptacle divided 
longitudinally, with one flower left adherent. 
* Walpers (Ann. iii. 275) says that this species grows in northern Africa and 
western Asia, as woll as in southern Europe, 
