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i amie S. rupicola Badaro pl. ose - aig hs Reichb. 
Ic. 3, fig. 374. 8S. _tenwifolia Bertol. in coll. her a ag Moris 
6 ‘dissitiflora, ramis minus — magis aie icatis, spiculis 
bifloris laxius in spicas longiores is patulas dispositis.—In 
Corsica ad Bonifacio (Sieber | Solero !), insulis Balearibus (herb, 
Fauché !), Catalaunia ad Montjouy (herb. Boiss.).” 
ese varieties will now be considered seriatim, with the 
exception of ‘0. acutz ifolia,” which I consider worthy of specific 
rank ; this will form the subject of a future note. 
UBESCENS. oissier’s var. pubescens is destitute of a 
reiios api beyond a few characters to distinguish it from the 
pubescens - De Cand ha refully examined 
Boiasare Own specimens and compared them with the typical 
glabrous state and with the true pubescens: it varies greatly as 
minuta,” but I have no personal manda ae that the two species 
grow intermingled. For the present, therefore, I propose to treat 
the plant as a “forma puberula” of S. minuta, from 
the true S. pubescens DG. : may be distinguished by the shape 
of its tes bract, by being much more pubescent; its sterile 
branches are more dichotomous and zigzag, its spikes s denser, 
its = usually truly retuse and not falsely so, and = other 
— 
remarkably rounded leaves and the absones sll) of sterile 
branches are the more obvious features of thi 
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DISSITIFLORA is variety is idle ra 
mined in he m specimens from all the localities 
mentioned by Boissier, but ve been unable to find any other 
emlerg i vi —— collections at the British 
* Obtuse outer bracts are an important feature of S. pubescens DU, 
