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branches, panicle leafless with divaricate branches, flowers 

 drooping, carpels fusiform 8-ribbed subcompressed ventricose 

 below externally. 



" T. minus, Koch, Syn. ed. 2, 4 j Fries, Summa, 135 ; Reich. Icon. 



Fl. Germ. iii. t. 27 ! 

 " T. majus, Reich. I. c. t. 30. • 



"2. T. Jlexuosum (Reichenb.) ; stem zigzag striated branched /e«^ 

 to the base, stipules with rejlexed auricles, leaves 2-3-pinnate, 

 leaflets 3-5-cleft paler beneath, petioles with patent divaricate 

 branches, panicle leafy elongated with patent often reclinate 

 branches, flowers drooping, carpels narrowly oblong subcom- 

 pressed sub-10-ribbed gibbous within upwards. 



" T. flexuosum, * Bernh. Cat.'' ex Reich. Fl. excurs. 728, et Ic. 



Fl. Germ. iii. 14, t. 28 ; Fries, Summa, 136, et Herb. Norm,. 



vii. 24 ! 

 " T. collinum, Wallr. Sched. 259, teste Reich. 

 " T. capillare, Reich. Fl. excurs. 729, et Ic. Fl. Germ. iri. 15, t. 36. 

 " T. majus, Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 611, et Eng. Fl. iii. 42. 



" 3. T. saxatile (DC.) ; stem rather zigzag smooth but striated below 

 the striated sheaths branched hollow leafy to the base, ' stipules 

 with horizontal auricles ' (Fries), leaves 2-3-pinnate, leaflets 3-5- 

 cleft paler beneath, petioles subterete with patent not divaricate 

 branches, panicle leafless erect pyramidal with patent straight 

 branches, flowers drooping (?), carpels regularly oval. 



" T. saxatile, DeCand. Fl. Fr. v. 633; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. iii. 15, 

 t. 34 ; Gren. et Godr. Fl. Fr. i. 7 (excl. syn.). 



" T. Kochii, Fries, Mant. iii. 46, et Summa, 136. 



" T. collinum, ' Wallr.' teste Fries, Herb. Norm. vii. 25 ; Koch, 

 Syn. ed. I, 4." 



Polygala. 



In the third edition of his ' Manual,' Mr. Babington gave two spe- 

 cies of Polygala as British, under the names of vulgaris and amara. 

 In the sixth edition of the ' British Flora,' the authors sink the second 

 species ; explaining that they are unable to separate the British plant, 

 so called, from the first. In neither of the works is there any notice 

 of the mass of valuable matter published on the genus, in the *Phyto- 

 logist,' from the pens of Dr. Bromfield and others. The recent 



