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In salt marshes near the sea, growing cs Frankenia, Melilotus 
messanensis, etc. Pr. Estrem. Povoa. Algarv. Near Villa 
Nova. Flowers June. Has not been videri on the coast of 
Spain, but occurs at intervals round nearly the whole of the 
Molitonii 
E * * 
4.—J. communis, E. Meyer, June. 12. 
Var. a. J. conglomeratus, L. Sp. ed. 1. p. 326. Brot. ]. c. p. 510. 
Wet woody places. Pr. Estrem. n M uly. 
r. 8 usu .€. p. 326. Brot. l. c. 
Wet places. Pr. Estrem. Flowers April—Augu 
"s y: J. canariensis, Poir. in herb. Desf. E. Mejer, Syn. June. 
W & sandy places. Pr. Estrem. Near Vendas, between Coina and 
Serra de S. Luiz. Flowers July. This is doubtless the variety 
“ panicula altiori et latiori" mentioned by Brotero; it differs 
om J. effusus only in its much more ample panicle with long 
lax branches 
.5.—J. glaucus, Ehrh. Beitr. vi. p. 83. J. diaphragmarius, Brot. 
LESE 
Wet fields, common. Pr. Esírem. and Alemtejo. Flowers May— 
August 
Var “B. pan anicula laxiore pauciflora, capsulis obtusis, vaginis 
pallide fulvis i 
Pr. Estremad. Between Odivellas and Povoa. This distinct look- 
ing plant, of which I have also seen English specimens from 
Cheshire, collected by Mr. Warren, does not differ from J. 
B. laxiflorus of Lange, l. c. The pale sheaths and interrupted 
pith separate it Ha us diffusus, Hoppe,* of which it has 
somewhat the appea 
Var. y. Panicula em dcconiposita, testaceo-fusca, ramis proli- 
fero-elongatis, vaginis fulvo- brunneis, perianthii phyllis acutissimis 
(Petit, n. 762), the capsules are much more numerous and more 
fully poe It is ee a P$ rid. 
6.—J. obtusiflorus, Ehrh. Beitr. vi. p. 8 
' — Marshy oe Pr. Estrem. nem ‘Setubal, Calhariz. Pr. Algarv. 
Cabo de S. Vicente. FI, 
1.—J4. Fontanesii, Gay in ielape ie June. n. 80. J. articulatus 
313 (non. L.) ; J. sylvaticus, Brot. l.c. 517 (pro 
parte); J. striatus, Hochst. Herb. Un. It. Lusit, n. 334, an 
Welw. Fl. Lusit n. 295 (? Schousb). J. Hochstetteri, Steud. of 
* This is usually barren, and is probably ahybrid, J. Angelisii, Tenore, seé 
to be the same, eet from Sicilian specimens in "Podaro's Fl. Sic. Exs. n. 456. 
