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ard Tent. Fl. Abyss. = lec is perhaps too nearly allied to 
C. planifiora, from some forms of which it is scarcely distin- 
ia, chy! 
Afghanistan, Griffith! 686; Thibet, Hooker and Phorisort 
C. elegans, Noé! in Herb. 518 (not Boissier), from the Tigris, 
is the nota plant. 
Var. ? GLoputosa; C. eena Boissier & Reuter! in 
sched., Boiss. in Diag. or. IT. 3, C. Balanse, Boiss. & 
Reut. in sched.—This very coo of a at first sight looks 
very distinct; but Boissier oe already suggests the pro- 
priety of uniting it pdr “ C, alba” (, apse and indeed 
sith 
in the other truncate; styles very short—Mountain regions 
of Asia Minor: on the Tmolus, Balanea! 413; on the Taurus, 
the same! 
ts vrop#A, Lin. sp. 180, excl. var. 8. This well known 
and well characterized species offers none of the difficulties 
of all the other European Cuscute ; the obconic calyx with 
its thick and fleshy and usually elongated base and thin and 
obtuse lobes, the thin corolla with obtuse lacinie, the small 
d hin bifid or truncate appressed scales, the large 
ovary and comparatively large capsule with short divaricate 
styles and bearing the dead corolla only on top (not envel- 
oped in it) readily inguish it; nor does it vary near as 
_— — others do; the flowers, however, are as often 5 
thers the original Var. mrs of Sweden, I have 
never failed to discover that organ, t ough sometimes in a 
very defective state ; I, therefore, can not doubt that it is al- 
ways — but frequently 80 — bro especially sq very 
thin as to escape detection. In dry specimens, soaked or boil- 
ed, it. sahiexes to the tube of the shee so closely, that it “9 
scarcely possible to see or to separate it; but it is readily di 
