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covered and detached in the dry flower, if not too much 
mashed in pressing. The scales are rarely rounded, oftener 
truncate, and toothed at the apex, most ommend bifid, and 
fimbriate or toothed, or consisting of two distinct lateral 
— - entire, often extremely small, lobes 
e is commonly depressed, but a form with an 
elavhéed, conic capsule, var. conoc is not rare; both 
grow together and can not be distinguished otherwise. 
Var. Indica has more crowded, smaller flowers, and per- 
haps a little ee styles. A specimen from Sarepta on A/- 
Camelorum, in the Herbarium of the St. Petersburg Bot. 
Garden, has still adler flowers, but shows no other, to me, ap- 
preciable difference. 
Var. Vicie has often a more solid texture of the flower 
and fruit, which last does not open before full maturity, and 
= thus in herbaria sometimes seem to be indehiscent, 
e, usually, the capsules of dried specimens ecimens readily open 
re quite ri 
also in Asia Minor! on the Caucasus! in Persia! Affghan- 
istan! Thibet ! and on the Himalaya! in general. Once, only, 
it seems to have been seen in America; Poiteau! in Herb. 
Neufehatel, gathered it on Vicia in Hayti, where ‘it no doubt 
was introduced from E 
The following trmiios list of synonyms shows how 
much this species has exercised 
¢. major, Bauh. Pin. 219, DC. Fl, fe. IM, 644; DC.! 
Prodr. IX. 452; ©. filiformis, a, Lam. Fl. fr fr IL 807; ©. te 
(andra, Moench Meth. 461; Pers. 8 - 1. 289; 
C. tubulosa, Presi! Del. 215; pithymum, Thuil. Fl. 
Par. 85, not Lin. ; C. Hpienidea, Be a Thur Gartz.18 | 
nro. 4; C. halophyta, Fries! n. scare en 8; C. halophila! 
Sum. Veg. I. ToL: C. mon , Schmidt, Fl. Bohem. and 
in some herbaria, not Vahl.: C. Ligustriy Areschoug, Revis. 
Cuse. Suec. p. 17; C. tetrasperma, Jan an! in | 
na, Boiss.! in sched., not | Roth. C. ‘Segetum, Rota in Giorn. 
nein eee c. Vici, Schulte 9. DesM. are over- 
: "ete te te co hoch ia bee X. 19,1 
have not seen Poa Ch C. uct ie aX 
