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and there along the southern slopes of the Swiss and Italian Alps, reaching 
as far eastward as Croatia. In the department of the Alpes Maritimes it 
is local, having been found near Nice, Sospello, La Giandola, and lately 
near Bezaudun in the arrondissement of Grasse by the Abbé Consolat. 
Professor De Notaris states that it is frequently found in woods and meadows 
between Genoa and Nice. 
EXPLANATION OF PLate LXXIX.—Fig. 1, a flower magnified. Fig. 2, 
an immature fruit magnified. Fig. 3, outer face of one of the mericarps 
of a ripe fruit magnified. Fig. 4, immer or commissural face of the same 
magnified. Fig. 5, transverse section of the same magnified. Figs. 3, 4, 
and 5 are from a dried specimen in the Kew Herbarium, gathered at 
Prades. 
