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Brit.), Hautes-Pyrénées. Rouy and Camus (Fl. de 
tore), Brunetta (Allioni, Fl. Pedem. ii. p. 207, 1682 |. 
the earliest definite record of the plant in Italy), and Giaveno (He) 
witzerland.—Confined only to the canton o here are 
ing myself), Bitzenen, Les Pontis, Vercorin, Erschmaitt, in pine- woods 
along the Dala ravine between Inden and Loéche-les-Bains, and 
above the road from Inden to Sierre, in the vineyards round Con- 
(Paris, It. boreali-africanum, 1866, n. 58, in Herb. Kew.) ; Sidi-bel- 
We a, in 
Wady Mzab, Algerian Sahara, 1902 (Abbé Chevallier in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. 1908, p. 678). Battandier and Trabut (M1. de V Algérie 
[1889] ) do not give any localities for the plant, and make an odd 
t the hypo will 
Among the old specimens preserved in Herb. Mus. Brit. are the 
type-specimen (a luxuriant example) described in Linneus’ Hort. 
Clifort. p. 73 ; a Chelsea Garden specimen (n. 1645), which was one 
of the contract-plants sent by the Curator to the Royal Society in 
1754, and six specimens in as many volumes of the Sloane Her- 
barium (consisting of 884 volumes). ese 
of little interest, as none of them are labelled, either with 
