532 Mr LOWE, ON MADERAN BOTANY. 



Hab. in sylvis Convallium Maderse, in declivibus prope rivulos rarior. 



Dense cespitosa. Folia numerosa, conferta, culmos subasquantia 

 s. excedentia, fere (pro latitudine) setacea s. filiformia. Fructus niti- 

 dissimi, magni, siibremoti, squamisque fuscis, deflexis; inde sagittaruni 

 quasi ciispides plures, filo consertas, spica refert. 



Cum C. decijnente Gay et La Perouse, monente am. Fr. Boott, 

 M. D., conferenda. C. puUcari L. proxima, sed abunde distincta. 



JUNCE^. 



16. Lu&iila elegmis, nob. 



Zy. foliis lanceolatis, pilosis : corymbi erecti, supradecompositi ramis 

 capillaribus, mox divaricatis, deflexis : pedunculis unifloris : bracteis 

 sepalisque setaceo-acuminatis, capsula obtusa, mucronata longioribus : se- 

 minibus simplicibus, exappendieulatis. 



Hab. in rupibus convallium Maderse murisque rarior. 



4 — lO-pollicaris; corymbo fructifero elongato, oblongo-angustato, senii- 

 pedali ; ramis ramulisque inferioribus elongatis, plerisque divaricato-re- 

 fractis, tenuissimis. hinc inde pilosis. Flores solitarii, rufo-castanei, lucidi. 



Amentace^. 

 17- Quercus mitts. Herb. Banks. 



Since the publication of this, as a species, in the Cambridge Tran- 

 sactions (Vol. [V. I. p. 15. No. 21.), from the specimen preserved in the 

 Banksian Herbarium, I am quite satisfied, from observation of two 

 growing trees, evidently identical with the above, that it is nothing 

 but a slight variety of Q. Stiber L., with broader, more entire leaves 

 than usual ; such as might be expected in trees, growing like these; 

 in cool, shady situations, at a considerable elevation. Both these trees 

 are the inmates of gardens : and it is quite certain that Madera pos- 

 sesses no indigenous species of Quercus whatever. 



Urticace.iE. 



18. Parietaria gracilis, nob. Prim, in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. iv. I. 



p. 16. No. 23. 

 (Character emendatus). 



