1907] 
List  of  plaiits  from  Armenia  and  Trebizond. 
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This  beautiful  plant  belong-s  to  the  group  of  species  formed  by 
I.  caucasica  Hoffm.  and  its  allies,  and  seems  to  be  nearest  related 
with  I.  imlaestina  (Baker)  Boiss.  It  is  chiefly  disting-uislied  from 
that  species  through  its  considerably  larger  purplish  flowers,  further 
by  its  obovate-spathulate  interior  perianth-segments,  etc.  I.  iKilaestina 
has  pale  yellow  flowers,  which  are  sometimes  tinged  with  lilac;  its 
interior  perianth-segments  are  narrow,  linear-lanceolate ; besides  it 
has  a considerably  more  Southern  distribution,  extending  from  Syria 
and  Palestine  to  Mesopotamia  (according  to  Boissier,  Fl.  orient.  V, 
122;  its  occurrence  in  Mesopotamia  is  not  mentioned  by  Baker, 
Handb.  Irid.,  45).  From  the  Syrian  desert  Post  has  described  a 
variety  with  blue  flowers  under  the  name  of  var.  coerulea  (Fl.  of 
Syr.  and  Palest.,  768).  1.  caucasica,  of  which  I have  seen  in  Bois- 
sier’s  herbarium  Armenian  specimens  from  various  collectors,  having 
broader,  inflate  spathes  and  obtuse  stigma-lobes,  is  still  more  different 
from  I.  Eleonorae.  Also  of  i.  caucasica,  which  has  generally  qiiite 
yellow  flowers,  there  exists  in  Turkestau  and  Buchara  a variety 
with  blue  flowers,  viz.  var.  coerulea  Regel  (Descript.  plant.  nov. 
Fase.  IX,  38  [1884]). 
With  the  consent  of  my  father  I have  named  this  species  in 
memory  of  my  late  mother.  Mrs.  Eleonore  Holmboe  (borii  1857, 
died  1901). 
An  the  Armenian  high  level,  flowering  in  April,  1878. 
Crociis  hiHoriis  Mill.  Gard.  Diet.  ed.  7,  no.  4 (17.59). 
subsp.  C.  Adauii  Gay  in  Feruss.  Bull.  Sciences  natui-.  XXV,  319  (1831). 
C.  bifloriis  var.  Adami  Baker  in  Gard.  Chron.  434  (1873);  Maw,  Monogr.  290. 
C.  biflorns  p violaceus  Boiss.  Fl.  orient.  V,  112  (1884). 
About  Erzeroum,  flowering  in  April,  1878. 
Stellaria  media  (L.  sub  Alsine)  Gyrill.  Ess.  plant,  cliar.  comm.  3ti  (1784). 
Armenia,  1878. 
Ranunculns  chius  DC.  Begn.  Veg.  Syst.  1,  299  (1818). 
Armenia,  1878. 
R.  edulis  Boiss,  et  Holienack.  Diagn.  plant,  orient.  Sér.  I,  VIII,  4 
(1849).  Ficaria  faseimdaris  Kocii  in  Linnaea,  XV,  249  (1841);  non  R.  fascicu- 
laris  Mdhl. 
Armenia,  1878. 
Ceratocephaliis  faleatus  (L.  sub  Ranuncido)  Pers.  Synops.  plant.  I, 
341  (180.5). 
Armenia,  1878. 
