424 Mr. Woods on the Species o/"Fedia. 



differs from the usual appearance of F. dentata in having a rounder fruit, a less 

 elongated crown, and the teeth at the base of the crown larger in proportion. 

 I have never seen it hairless, but it probably varies in this respect, and F. den- 

 tata is sometimes hairy. Fig. 4. is F. dentata from Llangollen. Fig. 5. a 

 hairy variety from Sussex. Fig. 6. F. mixta from Dr. Hooker. This seems 

 also to be the plant of De Candolle. Fig. 7- is perhaps also F. mixta. The 

 specimens came from Llandydno. Valerianella puberula is borrowed from 

 Gussone, in whose description the fructu non umbilicato is put in strong 

 opposition to t\\G fructu umbilicato in the character of F. eriocarpa. I should 

 not have placed the two plants in the same section, but since De Candolle 

 has added to the former his accustomed "(v. s.)," vidi siccam, I cannot refuse 

 to admit it among the one-celled Fedice. De Candolle quotes to P^. puberula 

 the F. microcarpa of Reichenbach, PL Cr. t. 114. (fig. 8.), a figure to which 

 Gussone refers for his F. microcarpa and not for his F. puberula. Fig. 9. is 

 F. microcarpa from Italy ; fig. 1 0. the same from Gussone. F. truncata, a 

 native of Crete, (fig. 10*. copied from Reichenbach,) seems to differ from 

 F. microcarpa in little but the much greater expansion of the blunt, entire, 

 oblique crown. The seeds of the F. microcarpa of Gussone in specimens com- 

 municated to Mr. Bentham from the author, have, on the contrary, a smaller 

 crown than that figured by Reichenbach, and the whole seed is smaller, and 

 covered with hairs instead of the short points which make the fruit of Reichen- 

 bach's plant rather rough than hairy. The F. sphccrocarpa of Gussone I should 

 have suspected to be also the F. microcarpa of Reichenbach, if he had not him- 

 self decided differently. There remains to be noticed F. eriocarpa, a plant 

 which varies so much in the expansion of the crown as to make it difllicult to 

 draw the line between it and F. tnixta. Fig. II. is copied from De Candolle's 

 M^moire sur les VaUriandes. Fig. 12. was gathered at Perigueux. Fig. 13. in 

 Italy. Fig. 14., which is quite smooth, at Saintes. Fig. 13. is the most com- 

 mon appearance. The rigid habit, the fruitstalks thickened upwards, and the 

 sessile flowers of this species, give to it something of the appearance of F. ecki- 

 nata. F. eriocarpa, according to De Candolle, has 6 teeth in the crown ; 

 F. mixta only 3. This leads me to some remarks on the teeth of these plants. 

 In F. coronata and its allied species there is a tooth in the centre of the anterior 

 face of the fruit, i. e. above the junction of the two abortive cells ; and there is 



