84 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
near Montanejos ssi Valencia, Sierra den Garceran (Cavanilles), 
Sierra Nevada (G 
Syn. Aster acris Spo os A, acris var. viscosus Boiss., Voy. Bot. 
Espagne, ii. p. 800 (1889-1845 ). 
The iene note is eee from Boissier's account of the 
plant :—" The viscid substance which gives a shiny gloss to the 
P stem € plant & pec a 
only Pa it wit mith the buds aaarsd eal, in its young state, 
although it grows in the midst of rocks exposed to the warmth, and 
leaves. When better fan oaasibis it may merit specific rank ; 
its much later flowering, at the end of September, would seem to 
indicate it, but I found it in too ats a ee of growth pepronyance 
a definite opinion. Cavanilles’ figure, which I have cited, appear 
to me to represent the plant clearly, but i in the description no fefer- 
ence is made to its viscid covering.’ 
f. monocephala.—This is the plant found by Beccles in the 
Murcian plain, and figured by him in his work, issued in 1714 
posthumously by the elder Jussieu, under t. 605,—and thus dis- 
tinguished from the common form of var. intermedius, which he 
figures under t. 606, and from which it differs only in its mono- 
cephalous ave, giving the plant a distinct and more strict and 
compact appea 
ab. * of ‘Spain : Caparoso and El Sotillo in Navarre 
(Casaviel'a, Cat. Met. Plant. Navarra, in Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 
ix. [1880] ), Albarracin in the prov. of Teruel (Zapater), Uae, ‘Port- 
apan, and Altura, in the prov. of Alicante (Pau, 1889). 
In a part recently issued (April, 1903) of the sumptuous and 
beautifully illustrated Icones ad Floram Europe of MM. Jordan 
and Fourrean (forming a aie of vol. ii.), are included ten 
splendid plates of as many ‘“‘species” of Ga/latella, with flor 
‘Pp. 
s of the common form of var. intermedius, difficult to 
separate from one another, while Galatella deflexa, n t. 850 
with narrow one-nerved leaves, and more strict in habit He the 
common to — form and to the type of var. angustifulius) :— 
mque 8-9, deflexe 
ee 
natis. Genitalia lutea. Pappus paullo rufescens. Anthodii 
squamee prescott acutiuscule, supreme acutiores. Folia deflexa 
acuta, paullisper acuminata; surculorum erecto- ssa obtusa vel 
apiculo brevi soli The detailed floral analyses on each of the 
ten coloured plates are engraved with scientific nen and pre- 
cision, and are models of plan ant-illustration, but, even with the full- 
