GY M 
to be,-from peti, to cut or fplit, and seyn, a conte though in 
his bee he has printed it Schifloflega 
Gripen ts 1938. (Bryum Ca Behianums Dicks. 
) 
ae fal 8. t. 10.)—-Found on the eaft fide of 
pes Ogg near the Bees by Mr. Griffith, and on Ben 
Lawers by Mr. W. J. Hooker This {pecies, unknown out 
of Britain, is extremely peculiar for its fucculent habit, an 
fpatulate, reticulated, thick aves, The Sruitfialk is thick 
and fuccul lent. Veil curioufly reticulated, as in the gen 
-G. Dounianum, t. 1 582, found on a rock in 
by Mr. George Don, is one of the fmalleft fg Bits aA 
remarkable for having flender briftle-fhaped /eaves, with 7 
a ftemlefs habit, and probably an annual root. 
art is fingularly neat, as if turned out of 
ed 
$s we RAYE ob- 
enuine Gymnofto 
f the late Me Davall near 
nd, Ke i no perfon elfewhere, is not 
» quite fo minute as the laft, and differs from it in haying lan- 
anda hemifpherical Hes: 
odes of Mohr, a German » has the habit and 
{mall me of the two lait, La the raph is ftriated and more 
awn to the feed, 
pen uff. in Ann. du Mat Pit. at Vv. 4. 258.— 
Clafs and order, 8 nae Bl senha tfaria. Na. Ope 
Conpefite difccidee, orymbifere, Jv 
Ch. Comm Call x rounded, fimple, of numerous, 
ca TE Sean tales ina fingle rew. Cor. compound, 
difcoi ale flore fiche iy tnbulaic with three 
al, fpreading Rages y ise or 
whe ver bag ; achers baat bias a iy ube. 
d or lobed at the edges, 
mak and crowned with the rigid 
ed, convex, dotte 
CFO anent ftyle. Calyx of a fimple 
humerous. fcales. Florets of the radius numerous, 
via aa 
the Linn 
ie long hair 
pecies, 
a traces abo: 
ag: rae of a the ityle in 
"Phree Species: are. dot : like 
se shat orb aeiee, a enh Sed 
-Juif. Ann. du Muf.-», 4. 2624 ti. 61. 
ee 
% ——— 
and of which there erow 
the third, is pecu- ¢ 
well obferves, not a real j papas or feed- 
aM 
of thot 
ro ik " ate atentagce twovor sake ake lo 
deeply pinnatifid, fomewhat lyrate, fli ily 
hairy their fogme nts el, ein pe acute, en tire. Pon 
s radical, at the bale of each. ftem, quite feflile, hemifphes 
ee prickly all over with the innumerable prominent ftyles, 
hi bafes are immerfed in a profulion of foft whitifh 
down, conlilting - hy hairs that crown each feed. The 
feeds are rounded a ummit, marked with two longitu- 
inal acute. ribs on ski convex fide, and with tranfverfe 
marginal furrows or plaits on the other, which laf, in Jugs 
ieu’s figure, e, too > wh a teeth, whereas the mar- 
gin is pearls if n 
— Leaves pin- 
‘“icode vedi or axill 
g 
seeaieaic ak by Commerfon at. Buenos Ay-res 
pee ie habit of. the lait, except that, nae a much fobs 
inch long, fome iry, obtufe, thein 
fegments elliptical, cakaaame toh or rarely a little notched, 
fo that their figure and Sea refemble Lepidium alpinum, and. 
fome others of fae amily. Flowers) numerous, on 
a, hemifpherical, ae ry at 
enc comp 1 
The feeds cave on sock; ideia lon- 
~fhaped depreftion, encompafled with nume~ 
feveral {preading leaves, 
ay wedg e- 
or pase rere with foft hairs Sarrounding the ftyle.— 
Our learned. and i ingenious friend Mr. Correa (fee Conrma) 
bas led M. de J uffiew i into a miltake as on — ippia minuta, is 
any © fumed errors in the tion, 
_ the tt se the clofett. generic ies eke rute/cen 1 
3. G: prerofj » Juff, ibid. t. 61. f. 3.—Leaves. doubly, 
ares sic ¥ wers. axillary. Seed with four dilated win 
lightly hairy, and two. briftles at the top—Gathered 
Commerfon ai the te from which it differs in its greater 
zh longer branching, rote fil. — 
ey flems, and bipinnate leaves, which greatly refemble 
thofe of “the firit ——. res gh rather narrower and more 
hairy. Their. bafe t is alfo more, dilated and 
membranous. T efile, folitary, at the 
root and at each fork: of the. fet not fo villous 
s remarkable for their long prominent ftyles, wid are fr ned 
at their. baie. Pen feeds 
GYMNOTHO RAX, iene sina 
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