i732 BRITISH SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF POLYGALA. 
T am unable to describe the nature of the style. A good distribution 
of specimens by any of our Irish botanists through the Exchange 
Club would be igo valuable. The only known aoa is 
Ben 
nev spec cimens ’ except in the herbarium of Cunbrides Uni- 
verity, ie by Prof. Babin vie and in that of Mr. J. Ball. Nor 
has it yet been detected on the Continent; some specimens from the 
Eastern —— collected by Petit, in the Siri of the British 
useum, presenting the nearest appr oach to it. The only original 
description hitherto is in Babington’s Manual, from the 2nd edition 
Desfontaine’s P. rosea. Our illustration i is ‘rom a cakes cathertil 
by Mr. Ball. [Tab. 189, fig. 5, and tab. 190.) 
2. Poryeata catcarga, F. Schultz. 
P. calearea, F. Schultz, Flora, 1837, vol. ii., p. 782; Engl. Bot., 
3rd ed., vol. ii., p. 38; Bab. Man., 7th ed. , p. 44; Hook. Stud. Flor., 
2nd ed., p. nk i il 
. Pari 
a. glabra, Reich. Pl. Crit., vol. i _ p. 26. P. vulgaris, var. mee 
rn. Brit. F ili 
. Flor., ed. viii., p. 
Branches numerous, ending i in leafy stems, on some of which the 
leaves form a rosette, from which the flower-shoots arise. Leaves 
and : 
han bright blue, soiree crowded ; central bract longer than the 
owering icel. ing-sepa broadly elliptical or obovate, with 
elongated above it into a funnel-shaped tip. Capsule narrowed below. 
eed hairy ; appendages of aril unequal, the two lateral ones acute 
and nearly or quite half the length of the seed. 
ae Germ. Paris, t. vii. A; Reich. Pl. Crit., t. 50; Ic. 
r. Germ. et He Iv., t. mecelxix. , fig. 1 See ont tly com- 
sania habit) ; E.B S., t.2764 ; Engl. Bot., t. elxxxviii. (good, 
except some of the details). it. 189, fig. 
ecies is at once distinguishe by vulgaris by its habit, 
the large somewhat fleshy lower paras ninrd h decrease gradually up- 
wards on the stem, and the umbellate arrangement of the flowering- 
shoots, which late ca the season have the appearance of being axilla 
e flowers are somewhat larger, and generally a bright sie, making 
this the haidsomest ‘of all the English forme. With the a = 
the prominent midrib, the veining of the wing-sepals is much less 
i a re decidedly longer and more hada than in P. vulgaris (our 
drawing of the seed is from an immature specimen, and does not 
show this character to advantage), This seems s sufficient character to 
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