A renaria gothica. 1 1 



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Upper Austria : Windischgarten, Oberleitner (9th July, 

 1863). Italy: Verona, Monte Baldo, G. Rigo (15th July, 

 1878). It also occurs in the Spanish Pyrenees in all the 

 subalpine region, but I have no specimens from thence. 



Of Arenaria mnlticanlis, Wulfn. in Jacq., I can exhibit 

 specimens only from Central Tirol, Monte Fusterstern, 

 R. Huter (August, 1881); and from Carinthia, Wischbach, 

 R. Huter (30th July, 1875) ; but it occurs in the Kronstadt 

 Alps in Transsylvania. It can scarcely be considered any- 

 thing more than a local form of A. ciliata, and it is difficult 

 to separate the two. 



It may be useful to give the characters which differen- 

 tiate these species, and I cannot do better than extract 

 them from the "Novitiarum Florae Suecicee, Mantissa altera," 

 of Elias Fries (Upsal, 1839) pp. 33 to 35 : — 



"Arenaria gothica, caulibus e basi ramosa erectis tere- 

 tibus simplicibus, alis nudis, foliis ovalibus lanceola- 

 tisque abrupte acuminatis glabris, basi attenuata 

 subciliatis, sepalis carinatis petalis capsulaque ovata 

 brevioribus." 



"Radix omnino annua ; seminibus dispersis tota 

 planta fugax. Caules basi divisi in ramos ex 

 adscendenti mox erectos, 1 — 2 unc. longos, semper 

 [etiam exsiccati] teretes, apicem versus puberuli. 

 Folia distantia, parva, tenuia, sicca nervo dorsali 

 carinata ; semper in apicem abrupte acuminata. 

 Pedunculi terminales vulgo terni, stricti. Sepala 

 patentia, ovato-lanceolata, itidem acuminata, ner- 

 vosa, et nervo dorsali manifeste carinata. Petala 

 ovalia obtusa ; stamina inclusa. Capsula ovata apice 

 constricta, dentibus revolutis dehiscens. Semina 

 reniformi-globosa, parum depressa, sub lente granu- 

 loso-scabra, atra." [Figured in Flora Danica, t. 15]^ 

 "Arenaria ciliata, caulibus csespitosis ramosissimis 

 diffusis, in alis folioloso-ramulosis, foliis minutis car- 



