168 BRITISH SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF POLYGALA. 
Lycoroprum Transitxa, Sodiro, n.sp.—Stem simple, decumbent at 
the base, bright red, retinas a fasting of two feet and a imal of 
half an inch, Leaves uniform, sees Beene ascending, ly i 
bricated, $ inch long, 3-3 inch broad, narrowed suddenly ri a broad . 
base, obtusely deltoid at the tip, rigid in ts fctere, glossy, bright red, 
the horny border minutely eroso-crenulate, the thickened midrib dis- 
tinctly visible. Uppermost leaves quite similar to those of the centre 
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REVIEW OF THE BRITISH SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF 
YGALA 
By Aurrep W. Benyert, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S. 
(Tans, 189, 190.) 
have been a considerable series in m gathere 
myself and other collectors, a set of type-specimens of most of the 
British fo y sent me by Dr and a comparison of 
then reduced ig the ikeoriedean 
glish Botany, 3rd ed., vol. ii.) and Dr. Hooker 
(Student’s mes: 2nd ed.) both make three British species of Polygala, 
vis, 3. P. vulgaris, Linn.; 2. P. ca carea, F, Schultz; and 3 
amara, Linn., of Hooker, styled P. uliginosa, igang? in the Ist ed. of the 
“ Student’s Flora,” and P. austriaca, Crantz ‘English Botany.” 
After much deliberation I have decided on astaistes this distribution 
of the British forms, though with considerable hesitation, as two of 
and grandiflora, seem to me to have 
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admitted on almost all hands to be a purely arbitrary one, it seems 
b existing arrangements without more 
The following are the characters which to most useful in 
distinguishing the various Task ioune gence ges 
