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K@LERIA SPLENDENS AS A BRITISH PLANT. 
os G. CrarincE Druce, M.A., F.L.S. 
Sastre pie Pe 
evidently with the intention of preparing anotlier edition of Ra 
Synopsis, or as an appendix to the third edition which he had edited 
in 1724. Among these were three specimens of a Aeleria, which, 
on examination, I saw was not K. cristata, and I thought must 
be referred to K. valesiaca. There was no label, but Hien tr 
investigation convinced me that a loose label which had been put 
in another cover r with a scrap of Festuca belonged to them. This 
runs as follow 
** Spartum omen radice bulbosa et fungoséd. Peculiaris que 
pre slits reggae _ —_ Bt. ost eaeiriar ae nobis rationem 
suppeditavit. Este ro graminis ratione satis 
crassa, sed et multiplex et Pear Ferrer substantia molli et fun- 
gosa, coloris interne subalbidi, externe rubiginosi, quam tincturam 
a soli natura, quod lutum rufum est, ipsi contingere arbitror, ut 
alte olantis in : : Ke 
proxime situm et minus conspicuum est, connumeres, interceptum 
et spica terminatum uncialis aut paulo longioris longitudinis, e 
pluribus locustis conjunctis 2, 8, 4-ve in eodem perbrevi pediculo 
«sabe constructa, que singula aeduabus componuntur glumis 
, duas etiam claudentibus locustas partiales, quibus 
singulis totidem sunt glume propriz, quot sunt communes, altera 
ior al 
enim erant cass, et -~ canbe aecaier colorem i in uerant, 
aut 
vivebant et egregie glance era erant. Hee quidem folia gracilia sunt, 
convoluta ac veluti ice reflexaque, at que in caule aeeseged recta 
extant. aliquanto breviora, si ab ea parte, qua a caule 
abcedunt, call ineas; nam reliqua parte ad unam alteratre 
unci miculo ad geniculum caulem vagine instar cingunt. 
Utraque he leevia, duriuscula, parte interne, striata. Radice, ut 
dictum, nititur sat crassa, in multa capita divisa, parte inferiore 
= tas fibras emittente. Nascitur satis copiose super rupes ad 
$s montis vico U, ‘phil rere? una cum Peucedano minor 
Lépinca glauca}, in std ro illo i renter vocato, qui e 
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