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rica Borealis. — Praecedenti me judice affinissima series, licet albi- 

 flora atque tuberifera, pro Eriosynaphi sectione forte ha- 

 benda. Species in herbariis jam per aliquot annos Eriosynaphe 

 schedulis nomino. 



Erigenia. Niitt. O — С et R. 73 et f. И; Rose 653 et f. 

 3165; Holm, Erigenia bulbosa, a morpholog. & anat. study [Ame- 

 ric. Journ. of. Sei. Fourth Series XI n'' 1 190163—12] 71.— Ame- 

 rica Borealis. — Specimina fructibus juvenilibus tantum donata inspexi; 

 ob ic. Roseana m et diagnosin Coulterianam 1. c: „from 

 comissural side extedens a prominent corky neck — like projection, 

 meeting its fellow from the other carpel and forming the thin area 

 between the curved carpels" hue baud dubitanter quietique mente 

 posui; conf. Holm 1. c; „we observed that the carpophore is deve- 

 lopped as a thick coating on the ventral face of each mericarp." 

 De vittis receduntC. et R. — sec. Holm a veritate. — „Die merkwür- 

 dige Gattung [0 r о g e n i a] würde in ihrer \'erwandschaft ohne vor. 

 Gattung [Erigenia] unverständlich sein" [?!] Drude in Engler- 

 P r an tl, Familien Ш S 1898 165 nescio quo nomine docet: utrius- 

 que generis inspectio comparata perperam me judice sententiam hanc 

 vol vit. 



П. 3. Pacliystereomeae К. -Pol. 



Flores typi antobiologici AB. Sep al a magna acuta rigida 

 persistentia libera, raro = obliterata. Xectaria — stylopodia co- 

 nica stipitata, raro depresse marginata, rarissime nulla. Jug a lata 

 obtusa planiuscula, saepe confluentia indistinctave, minus quam 

 Aittae prominula, semper crassa, rotundata. Me stoma stereomis 

 vel etiam aërophoris donata. Stereo m a maxima tangentaliter di- 

 latata vel sectione transversali reniformia, rarius cylindracea, saepe 

 inter se coalita stratumque continuum formantia, lateralia baud raro 

 ventralia dorsalibus evidenter majora. Aërophora epimestomea 

 (qua de re juga semper ecarinata). Vittae typicae constantes 

 mesocarpicue saepissime (in generibus gerontogaeis semper) in val- 

 leculis solitariae inque comissura binae, rarius (in generibus neo- 

 gaeis) ternae. Hypendocarpium raro tenue e fibris horizonta- 

 libus lignosura in juga non penetrans. -En doc ar pi u m plasmife- 

 rum. CrystaUi in comissura obvii, rarissime nulli [non obser- 

 vati]. Embryo eleutherodicotyleus, rarissime cotyledonibus in tu- 



