BRITISH SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF POLYGALA, 171 
Flor. Germ. et Helv., vol. xviii., p. 90. P. oxyptera, Koch Syn., 
yh WOR Stem weak, branching ; stem-leaves linear; flowers 
distant, small, drooping when withered ; wing-sepals from narrowly 
ov to linear-oblong, membranous, longer and narrower than the 
ripe capsule, venation various; style considerably longer than in var. 
ae capsule rounded below, emarginate ; ; appendages of .aril short, 
nt. 
Fies. E.B.S., 2827; Engl. Bot., t. clxxxvi. (good); Reich. Ic. 
Flor. Germ. ne ie ly;, ti mceexlvi. , fig. 2 (not sactncterina 
Tab. 189, 
In its extreme frail this variety differs so widely from the typical 
plant in habit as almost to justify its being erected into a species, in 
which light I was long disposed to regard it. Independently of the 
more diffuse and prostrate habit, the narrower leaves, and the narrower 
the more elongated style, are very characteristic. There are, how- 
ever, all ba Sediate stages between this and the ve eulgaris, 
some differing from it, in nothing but the narrower wing-sepals 
illustration does not represent this in by any means an ices foeens 
The venation of the wing-sepals is extremely variable ; sometimes with 
common character of the narrower wing-sepals rather than gen etically 
connected. It is not common, and appears to peas gu or sorry! situa- 
tions. The most characteristic specimens are e Channel 
ete gathered by Prof. a and Ge Deal, in oak Fs 
the herbarium of the late Mr. J Mill. It is also recorded from 
Waterloo Sandhills, near Liverpoo 1; F Selsombe Cheshire ; Newhaven, - 
Sussex ; East Kent; Monmouthshire ; from Stirling, in Scotland; 
from Cave Hill, Co. Antrim, and Meleagh s, Co. Down, in Ireland ; 
and from several stations on the Continent. Our illustration i is from a 
specimen gathered i in Jersey by Prof. Babington 
Var. 5. grandiflora, Bab.* Man., 7th ed., p. 44; Engl. ie 3rd 
ed., vol, ii., p. 35; Hook. Stud. Flor., 2nd ed., p. "48; (no DC.), 
var. busifolia, Ball MS.in Herb. (non Keich.). Upper leaves large, 
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standard of many writers, be nisi fore a species. The large, 
decidedly coriaceous, and the root-leaves considerably smaller than 
those which grow at some height on the stem, offering in this respect 
an exact contrast to P.amara. The large broad wing-sepals are more 
distinctly apiculate than in any other form. Unfortunately all the 
specimens I have been able to examine have been past flower, so that 
In the 1st edition of Hooker's ‘‘ Student’s Flora”’ this tag is credited 
tes yme,” and in the 2nd to ‘ Bosw.,” evidently in error, as Dr. Boswell in 
se pe Botany.” quotes his descrip tion verbatim “Babington's Manual, 
s that he has never seen the plant. : 
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