296 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
‘There can, I think, be no doubt, from Fries’s description, that 
the present plant was intended. It must bear the specific name of 
destructa. Bractew glabre, nigro-virides, exceptis duobus paribus 
infimis, foliis intercalaribus similibus, triangulares, in apicem paulo 
minor, excepta margine minime. scabrida, glaberrimis. Corolla 
e 
adpresso, itaque fauce fere aperta. Stylus demum curvatus, Semina 
ala membranacea, 0-1 em. | dit Floret mense Julio et 
and myself in 1890 (no 
and Prof. Lange afterwards correctly determined it as R. minor var. 
have t 
97 W. Inverness), 105 W. Ross, Banbury (23 Oxford), 
ough Qwel (Westmeath), and Glengariff (Cork); so that its 
distribution with us is a wide one. ay mention that my 
herbarium specimens are mostly branched from quite near the base 
-of the stem. : 
A. monticona Sterneck (1901). R. mi ticola Lamotte 
schedia (1881), (1901) minor mon sf 
. , Difiert ab A. stenophyllo caule humili 10-20 om. alto, internodits 
___ nferloribus brevissimis et plurimis, internodiis intercalaribus elongatis 
