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dentate or entire, often extremely small, lobes, 
e capsule is commonly depressed, but a form with an 
i h 
ps 
elevated, conic capsule, var. conoca is not rare; bot 
often grow together and can not be distinguished otherwise. 
and fruit, which last does not open before full maturity, and 
may thus in herbaria sometimes seem to be i 
while, bree the capsules of dried specimens readily open 
ey are quite ripe. A specimen from Hayti has 
arger flowers, fruit and seed, than any other I have seen. 
C. Huropea inhabits the greater part of Europe and the 
mountains of Asia to the Himalaya. I have seen no speci- 
mens from Africa, or from Spain south of the Pyrenees, from 
Sicily or Greece ; in Italy it grows near Rome! and Naples! 
also in Asia Minor! on the Caucasus! in Persia! Affehan- 
istan! Thibet! and on the Himalaya! in general. Once, only, 
it seems to have been seen in America; Poiteau! in Herb. 
Neufchatel, gathered it on Vicia in Hayti, where it no doubt 
was wey 
C. tubulosa, Presl! Del. 215; 1G. Epithymum, Thuil. Fl. 
Par. 85, not Lin. ; C. Hpicnidea, Bernhardi Thur. Gartz. 1844, 
nro. 4; C. halophyta, Fries! n. mant. I. 8; C. halophila! 
Sum. Veg. I. 191; ve monogyna, Schmidt, Fl. Bohem. and 
Cuse. Suec. p. 17; C. tetrasperma, Jan! in sched.; C. hyali- 
Boiss.! i 
na, Boiss.! in sched., not 
bot. ital. II. 247, and C. Vicie, Schultz, ap. DesM. are over- 
ay ery destructive forms on fields of Vicia, 
Medicago, ete.—C. Uum, Bernh.l. ce. 1844, nro. 4; 
out scales—Var. Pontica, C. Koch : 
brachystyla, C. Koch! in Lin. XXII, 
