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ar. & ANGUS ; guish by this name an Italian 
which assumes different preci Satibaed under different form, 
names. It ha ow and elongated lobes of the corolla 
and usually also of the calyx, which is commonly longer than 
the tube of the corolla; the flowers are numerous and ses- 
sile, or ay more or less pedicelled. Three varieties may 
hed. 
be * ape 
Bak se - This is the true C. alba, Presl! Del. Prag. 87, 
also of ani and some other Italian botanists, while most 
authors apply this name to the original C. planiflora, Ten 
Pres|’ 's description, — by almost every subsequent pom 
thor, is very erroneous; but his own specimens, on Us, 
sed ed in his tollection at ghar and in the imperial Her- 
at Vienna, leave no doubt about the identity of the 
C. subulata, Tineo! in Gussone FI. Sic. II. 888, is ex- 
actly the same thing, as also C. Gussoni, Gasparrini! in 
It is a southern form occurring oma et Ge in Sicily, also 
about Naples and din Malta; it is often found on shrubs, and 
— Pate Herb, . Ledebour) gathered it on an a . Pea 
wo lines long), on short oe with serch cae 
ender elongated d tube, narrowly lancé acumin: 
v. 
ds of M 
