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The alteration in form of the ripening seeds is not accurately 
given in the few descriptions of the genus. Bentham & Hooker 
write ‘‘semina serge vel ovata, ad medium faciei interioris 
concave oon ta.”’ EF. Tornabene, on the other hand, says 
‘* semina line my de 
I have ser seen any quite glabrous specimens similar to those 
recorded by De Regel from the river Sarawschan, in Turkestan, 
nearly glabrous. The name of ** Turcomania,’’ however, does n 
apply to Turkestan, but at the time these specimens “bps colle sted 
was applied to the region otherwise known as Mesopotamia. All 
the specimens from Crete which I have examined seem to ben early 
eadinis; but they have been so crushed and rubbed in the process 
of roughing it between the collector and the species-cover in the 
herbarium that they cannot be relied upon for extending the geo- 
graphical range of the glabrous form. 
A Distribution. 
PortueaL.—( Ferreira, F 1. Lusit. exsice. No. 178), (Daveau, Herb. 
Lusit. No. 1181), Penedo da Saudade near Coimbra (1886), prov. 
of rE dura (Welwitsch, No. 131), Vimioso (Mariz, 1888), 
Mon n prov. of ‘leiteds (Cortezao), Faro in prov. of Algarve, 
near Tisbon (Welwitsch, No. 68). 
— Gravelly places, dry hills, and borders of fields. Aragon : 
Rodansif one Chiprana (Loscos)—New Castile: environs of 
Lange), Mentrida (Cavanilles), Chamartin (Prolongo), 
Aranjuez (Boutelou), Almaden (Torrepando).—Leon: Valcabado de 
Paramo (Lange).—Murcia: near Murcia (Lange).—Andalusia: round 
Granada (Willkomm) and Ma laga (Boissier). 
France.—Dry places, waste-land, and bor ders of fields.—North 
slopes of the Pyrenees in the de ept. of Pyrénées-Orientales, near 
Montpellier (Planchon) in the dept. of Hérault, Avignon and 
Carpe ee buns Mill) in et ose of Vaucluse, Le Luc in the 
dept. of Var (Billot, exs. No. 1622), Nimes in the dept. of Gard 
(Cherler’s specimens), also in a evil of Aude, Bouches-du-Rhéne, 
and hee and at C. Corso, in Corsica (Soleirol, No. 883 
—Along roadsides and on dry hills.—Piedmont: near 
Manaot. —Tusean ny: Rom sis: Tote ), fields at Pelago,. an kilo- 
metres from Pontassieve railway station (Beccari), Mte. Senario 
to the north of Florence (Parlatore), } Mie. Cecioli ( Bertoloni), 
of t. 
(Baroni), near eae to earliest recorded specimens collected 
by Joachim Burser).—P of Rome: Valle dell’ Inferno, in the 
Roman Campagna (Seiigudactit -—Campania : Benevento (Caldesi , 
—Apulia: Gallipoli (Hy. Groves).—Calabria: near Reggio é). 
—Sicily: os Messina (Gussone), Geahanici (Nicotra), Naso (Todaro 
Pl. Sic. No. 696), Monticelli (Mina), Mt. Etna at Bro 
metres (Sui, alermo (Reimbole, It. Sic. No. 1035 Sere a 
environs of C ene M i). 
ecording to rtoloni Italian name is “gar 
beccuto.” The plant has sis } te recorded by Stur (1857) fot 
