Oli BUI,LKTLN DE |/HERB1ER BOISSIEU (2'"« SÉR.). (H) 



V;ir. ß bulgarica : Velen. FI. Bulgarica, p. 89 (1891). 



Staliira robnsliore elaliore, 20-32 cm. Gaules simplices 4-6-flori. Flores 

 lerlia parle majoi-es. pedicellis longis slricti siilTuKi. Sepala oblongo- 

 laîiceolala acuminala. Capsula oblonga. 



Hab. Bulgaria : Sliveu. Sotira (Skorpil), Varna (Skorpil junr.). slopes 

 of Ml. Molina (Adamovic, 1895. in Herb. Kew.). in grassy places near 

 Haskovo (Stribrny in Herb. Kew.), Burgas and Haskovo (FI. Bulgaricœ 

 suppl. 1898). Servia : al Yranjska Banja (Adamovic, 1896). Turkey : in 

 woods al Buyukdere. near Conslantinople (Bornmiiller. II. Analol. IIJ. 

 1899. n. 4209). 



Var. Y grseca = M. grœca Boiss. Diagn. PI. or. nov., ser. II, I, p. 91 

 (18o3), et FI. Orient. I, p. 511, Halacsy, Consp. fl. Graecse I, p. 228 (1900). 



Forma typicà humilier, pumila ; ssepius a collo multicaulis. Folia 

 oblongo-lanceolata acutiuscula. Pedicelli flexuoso-arcuati apice incrassati, 

 calyce 3-4-plo longiores. Sepala 6-8 mm., oblongo-lanceolata. Slyli recur- 

 vali sub anthesi ovario aequilonga. 



Hab. In rocky places in Greece, and Ihe Turkish portion of Thes- 

 saly (cf. Bcenitz. berb. Europ. n. 4191). Nome of Attica : Ml. Penlelicon 

 and Ml. Parnassus (Heidreich, Herb, norm., n. 661). grassy slopes of 

 xMl.Hymellus (Hausknecht. 1885, Spruner, in Herb. Mus. Bril. M.octandra, 

 Heldreich exs.. n. 2318, M. erecta, Aucher-Eloy, n. 653. Cerastimn sagi- 

 noides). Nome of Laconia : Hagios Petros (Boissier). Island of Tinos, 1869 

 and 1889 (Heldreich. Herb, norm., n. 1017. Weiss). Thessaly : Mt. Pelion 

 near Portaria (Heldreich). Island of Ohio {i. e. Sakys) in Ihe Turkish 

 Sporades (Orphanides. Fl. Greeca, n. 931). 



Yar. serbica Williams = M. grseca var. serbica Adamovic in Allg. 

 Bot. Zeilsclir. II. [i. 95 (1896); Rieht, et Gurke. PI. Eiirop. II. p. 238 

 (1899). 



Omnibus partibus minor, gracilior. Caulis sijepe unillorus, foliis lenuio- 

 ribus quam in lypo. Flores minores, bracteis sepalisque magis lanceo- 

 lalis, hisce sub fructu in pedicellum valde incrassalum sensim abeuntibus 

 (exsicc. Btenilz, Herb. Europ.. anno 1895 <^ Mœnchia serbica »). 



Hab. Sunny slopes near the base of Mt. Pljackavica, in Servia, and on 

 grassy places at Balinovac near Yranja, at 600-900 melres. 



Quile différent from the Servian spécimens of var. ß collected by 

 Mr. L. Adamovic in 1896. of wliich examples of bolh are in Herb. 

 Kew. 



