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Stem arching, with strongly elevated lines. Leaves glabrous, sub- 

 distichous, ascending in two directions at an obtuse angle with each 

 other, oval or elliptical, semiamplexicaul, submembranous, glabrous, 

 glaucous beneath. Peduncles from the axils of most of the leaves 

 except the very lowest and a few of the uppermost, 1- or 2- (rarely 

 3- or 4-) flowered, branched only in the lower half. Flowers pendu- 

 lous, ^videly-cylmdrical, attenuated at the base, not contracted near 

 the middle. Filaments glabrous. 



Yar. a, genuinum. 



P. vnJgare, Boreau, Fl. du Centr. de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. 11. p. 614. 



Peduncles 1 -flowered, or rarely one or two of them with 2 flowers, 

 from the peduncle being forked from the very base. 



Var. 0, intermedium. 



P. intermeditmi, Boreau, I.e. p. 615. 



Peduncles mostly 2- or 3-flowered (sometimes 4-flowered), branched 

 about the middle or a little below it. Whole plant usually larger and 

 stouter than var. a ; the leaves commonly broader, closer together, 

 and rather thicker in texture. 



In woods and on the ledges of limestone clifi's. Rare. I have 

 specimens of var. a from Gloucestershire ; Settle, Yorkshire ; Kyloe 

 Crags, Northumberland; and a doubtful form from Leigh Wood, 

 Somerset: var. fi'om Colerne, Wilts. Besides this, the plant has 

 been reported from Dorset, Plants, Kent, South Wales, and the Lake 

 district ; but I am unable to say which of the forms occur there : 

 indeed, possibly in some of these counties P. multiflorum has been 

 mistaken for it. 



England. Perennial. Early Summer. 



Very similar to P. multiflorum, but usually smaller, with the stems 

 conspicuously angular, from having raised lines on it which are most 

 developed in the upper part ; the leaves usually thicker and more am- 

 plexicaul; the peduncles often 1-flowered and always few-flowered; 

 the perianth larger (about 1 inch long), more narrowed at the base, 

 and not evidently constricted above the ovary, and with shorter and 

 broader deltoid teeth : the berry is precisely similar, but scarcely so 

 large. 



Uf var. 3 I received roots from Mr. T. B. Flower; these, when 

 planted beside P. intermedium from M. Boreau, sent me by i\L 

 Lenormand, so closely resembled the French plant, that where the 

 two ran together by extending their creeping roots, it was impossible 

 to say which was which. ]Mr. J. Tatham ^vas kind enough to scud me 



