8 BULLETIN DE L'HERBIER B0ISSIER. (8) 



3 comme dans Alsine procumbens. » I hâve examined tliis spécimen 

 together with Bové's other duplicates, and I certainly found that in 

 some capsules there were five teeth; but the teeth are of variable width. 

 showing that they have been torn in process of drying and pressing the 

 spécimen. In the capsules evidently undamaged there are only three 

 teeth. Desfontaines erroneously says « quinquevalvis ». 



ß. glabrata, Williams. 



Tota planta glabra eglandulosa. Gaules 19-23 centim. Folia lineari- 

 oblonga tenuia. Sepala 5-nervia. Petala albida vel dilutissime carnea. 



Syn. Arenaria Bartolloti, Tinea PI. rar. Sicil. pugill. I, p. 10 (1846); Jacks. 

 Ind. Kew. I, p. 178. 



Arenaria Bartolelti, T.anfani (sub syn.) in Pari. Fl. Italiana, IX. p. 607 

 (1892). 



Alsine Bartolotti, Huet exs. Sicul. anno 1855; et ex Nym. Consp. fl. Eur. 

 p. 119 (1878). 



Alsine geniculata var. Bartolottae, Lojac. in herb, et exs. Fl. Sic. 



Hab. Sicily; Palermo and Termini. 



The above Synonyms show how authors differ in the spelling of the 

 name of one of their own countrymen. 



y. communis, Williams. 



Tota planta pilis brevibus villosulis glandulosis vestita. Folia linearia, 

 internodiis breviora. Sepala 5-nervia. Petala alba vel albida. 



Syn. Arenaria herniariaefolia, Desf. Fl. Atlantica. I, p. 358 (1798). 



Arenaria herniarifolia, Jacks. Ind. Kew. I, p. 179 (1893). 



Arenaria procumbens, Ball, in Jourii. Linn. Soc. XVI, p. 365 (1877). 



Arenaria procumbens var. ß, Gîiss. PI. rar. Sic. p. 183 (1826). 



Alsine herniariaefolia, Miinby in herb. 



Alsine procumbens var. linearifolia, Fen%\, herb, in Herb. Bentb. (planta 

 24 centim., foliis 10-14 mm. lg.). 



Alsine maritima longius radicata, Hern iarise foliis, Boccone, Ic. descr. PI. rar. 

 Sicil. p. 18, t. 10, ff. la, Ib. (1674); Cupani Hort. Cath. p. 6 (1696). 



Alsine perennis lusitanica, radice crassa, Herniariae facie, ad sched. in Herb. 

 Tourne f. 



Alsine maritima Siciliana longius radicata, Herniariae foliis. Morison Plaut. 

 Hist. Univ. II, p. 552, no 21 (1680). 



Iconogr. Boccone, Ic. descr. PI. rar. Sicil. p. 18, t. 10, ff. la, 1b (1674). 



