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curvifolia (D. Don); stem-1. more numerous with incurved lobes. 

 E. B. S. 2909.— Caernarvonshire. Aberdeenshire. Kerrv. P. 

 V. VI. 



10. S. hirta (Sm.) ; I. crowded 3 — S-cleft, lobes lanceolate 

 pointed fringed, fl. few (usually 3) loosely panieled, pet. obovate 

 3-veined, cal. half inferior, sep. ovate acute.— -E. B. 2291 (good). 

 — L. on the barren shoots as well as the radical 1. 3-cleft, the 

 lateral lobes often divided half way down, lobes diverging. St. 

 3 — 6 or 8 in. long, weak, ascending, hairy, glandular, bearing 2 

 or 3 deeply 3-lobed leaves and a few simple hnear bracts. Late- 

 ral peduncles ultimately much overtopping the intermediate one. 

 Auth. large, round, with a deep parallel-sided notch. Horns of 

 caps, slightly spreading. — On the summit of Brandon Mountain, 

 and Hag's Glen, Kerry ; and Galty More, Tipperary. West of 

 Scotland. Mr. G. Don. P. VH. S. I. 



11. S. affinis (Don) ; 1. of the trailing shoots 3 — 5-lobed with 

 a very broad base fringed, lobes linear acute, fl. few (2 — i),pet. 

 oblong 3-veined infiexed at the sides, cal. half inferior deeply 

 divided into subulate acute sepals. — E. B. S. 2903. — The 5-cleft 

 1. few ; lobes of the others nearly parallel or slightly spreading. 

 St. 1 — 3 in. high, erect, with a few linear simple leaves, glan- 

 dular. Anth. i as large as in Nos. 9 and 10, cordate-ovate. 

 Horns of caps, spreading. — I have examined this plant and S. 

 hirta upon Brandon Mountain and consider them as distinct 

 from S. hypnoides. — Summit of Brandon Mountain, Kerry. P. 



vn. I. 



12. S. hypnoides {Jj.) ; root-l. 3 — 6-cleft, those of the trailing 

 shoots undivided or 3-cleft, lobes all acute bristle-pointed and 

 fringed, calyx half infei-ior, sep. ovate acute. — E. B. 454. S. pla- 

 typetala {E. B. 2276), hypnoides, elongella (E. B. 2277), lepto- 

 phylla, and denudata of Smith. Anth. very small, oblong-ovate. 

 Horns of caps, divaricate. — a. 1. of the trailing shoots undivided. 

 — /3. 1. of the traihng shoots 3-cleft, lobes broad. — y. as 0. with 

 linear-lanceolate widely spreading lobes. — These varieties are 

 scarcely worth notice. In all of them the lobes of the I. are 

 gradually narrowed from just above the middle to an acute point. 

 " Petiole inflated semiterete beneath." — Mountains. P. V. — VII. 



13. S. ItBtevirens (D. Don); trailing shoots procumbent elon- 

 gated, 1. 6- or 3-parted, lobes linear acute, calyx-segments lan- 

 ceolate mucronate, pet. spathulate emarginate. Don. — " The re- 

 curved points of the segments of the 1. may possibly distinguish 

 this as a species." W. Wilson. Unknown to me. — Mountains. 

 Angus, Aberdeen, and north of Loch Lomond. P. VI. S. 



14. S. pedatifida (Sm.) ; root-l. and those of the short sterile 

 shoots upon very long stalks divided into 3 deep linear-lanceolate 



