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Rare in cultivation. Mr. J. Wood, of Boston Spa, has it 

 (collected in the Pyrenees) ; and, by the kindness of correspondents, 



Fig. 105. — S. hirsuium AUioni. 



I have received specimens collected in southern France, Portugal, 

 and the Pyrenees. 



Several of the floras {e.g. Rouy and Camus, Wilkomm and Lange) 

 describe the flowers as purplish or red ; in all the specimens I have 

 seen they were china white. 



The name has reference to the hairiness which is so -conspicuous 

 a character of the plant. 



Var. baeticum Rouy. 



Rouy in Bull. Soc. Bot. de France, 34, 441, 1887 (as sub-species). 

 Praeger in Journ. of Bot. 56, 150, 1918. 



More robust than the type, very glandular-hairy in all its parts, 

 pale green in colour, flowers half as large again in diameter, petals oval 

 rather than oblong-lanceolate, carpels broader. 



The plant from which the above description is taken was collected 

 in Southern Spain a few years ago by Miss Luckham, and sent to 

 Wisley. It agrees with Rouv's description of var. baeticum in all 

 points save that in that form the flowers are a Httle larger, and the 

 petals multinerved. 



