522 6. BEAUVERI) 



Area. — Adjarlae Transcaucasiae, in pascuis alpinis moiitis Kliino (ait.?), 

 17. Julii 1893, leg. N. Alboff (in H. BP>., sub Melampyro raucasico!). 



§ B. Compléta. 

 * Spicata: Infiorescentia in spicam cylindraceam disposita. 



7. Melampyrum arvense L., Spec. pi. éd. I [17r)4] G05. — Syii. : M. 2mrpit- 

 rascens Gilibert, FI. litliiian. I [1781] 130; 31. harbatum Waldstein et Kitai- 

 bel, PI. rar. hung. I [1802] 89, tab. 80; M. crisMum Habl. c.x Steudel, 

 Nomencl. éd. 2, II [1841] 113 (nomen nuduui) non L. ; M. argyrocommn Fischer 

 ex Steudel, Nomencl. éd. 2, II [1841] 113 (nomen nudum); M. ■pseudo-har- 

 hatiim Schur, in Verhandl. Siebenburg IV [1853] 56; M. ciUatiim 

 Boiss. et Heldr., Diagnoses sér. II, III [185(j] 176; M. hyhridum Wolfn. in 

 Oesterr. bot. Zeitschr. [1857] 232; 31. harbatum Schur in Verhandl. 

 Siebenb. X [1859] 11, non W. et K. ; 31. pseudo-arvense Schur, in Eniim. 

 Transylv. [1866] 506; 31. ckitius Reuter ex Boiss., FI. Or. IV [1879] 481; 

 M. albicaiis Porcins in Magyar Novenyt lapok IX [1885] 133; (? 31. cre- 

 taceum Czeriiy ex Trautvetter, Acta Petrop. IX: 79, nom. [1884]?); 3Lfim- 

 hriat/mn Vandas, Oesterr. bot. Zeitschr. [1889] 52; 3Iarinellia arvensis 

 Bubani, F\. Pyr. I [1897] 263. — (? 3MampyrHin varier/atum Huter, Porta 

 et Rigo in Oesterr. bot. Zeitschr. LVII [1907] 246, an hybrid. arvewsex 

 nemoros/im?). — 31. Semhii Ronniger et Pœverlein, Allg. bot. Zeitschi-. 

 [1907] 179 ; 3L Schinzu Ronniger et Scliinz, FI. delà Suisse éd. fr. I [1909] 

 520; 3'I. versicolor Fritsch, Exkursionsfl. fur Oesterr., 2. Aufl. [1909] 544. 



Caulis crassus (rt 2 mm. diam.) velutiuo-hispidulus 15-50 cm. altus, basi cylin- 

 draceus apice subtetragomis ± ramosus, raniis apicalibus inflorescentiae axem 

 priinarium subacquantibus vel brevioribus. Folia scabridula subsessilia, ovato-lan- 

 ceolata vel linearia, hiferiora intégra (superf. + 30x4 mm.) sub anthesi cito 

 decidua; seqneutta longiora latioraque, reflexa vel horizontaliter patula; inter- 

 calaria (0-3 paria) intégra vel basi rb dentata, gradatim latiora, horizontaliter 

 patula vel erecta. Inflorescentiae initium ad VIII-XVI"'" nodum situm; hracteae 

 laete roseo-purpureae vel pallide luteae (rariusalbidae) plerumque ± bruneo-punc- 

 tatae, valde aj)proximatae, sub anthesi erectae, inflorescentiam longe (±100 mm.) 

 cylindraceo-spicatam efformantes, planae. ovato-lanceolatae (superf. ± 20 X 10 

 mm.) basi ± pectinato-dentatae, apice longe acuminatae, glabrae, scabridulae 

 vel" margine pulchre ciliatae. Calyx sul)sessilis tubo hispidulo vel lanuginoso dz 



