B26 AFPGHANISTAN FLORA. 



vinata, very common. Bryum cscspiticium. Funaria bygrometria, 

 Phascum and Gymnostomum. The most are to be found in 

 crevices of rocks, or under stones on the sloping sides of hills. 

 Bryum alium. 



6a. Crucifera. — Frutex humilis, dense intricate ramosus, partibu 

 senioribus, cortice albidis caeterum omnino glauco albid, fol. 

 linearibus canaliculatis sub revoluteis. 



Floribus inconspicuis. Calyce basi e saccato sequali semi- 

 patent fuscato. Fetalis longe unguiculatis, ungue fusco, lamina 

 atro purpureo sordida, demum non revolutis. 



Fructus brevi-pedicellatis, ascendens semuncialis, compressa 

 secus margines, carinat, medio ob semena rugosa. Stylo bre- 

 vissimo, stigmatibus terminat ; bivalvis replo et phragnat persis- 

 tent. Semena pauca vix ultra 6 cuivis loculo plana subreniforra, 

 luteo castanea, margine omni ala lata alba circumcincto (Fig. 

 36) six times nat size. 



On the bank of an old wntev cut. Pushut. 



7. Erythrcea. — Planta gracilis spithamaja, pallens, fol ascendente 

 incurvatis, margin revolutis, floribus roseis. 



Banks Pushut, saepe valde ramosa. 



8. Oxalis. — Planta perennis, dense repens, floribus stramineo lu- 

 teis. On banks. Pushut. Ifc must be different from the common 

 O. corniculata. 



9. Conyzoides. — Erecta 2 pedalis ramosa basi suff"uticosa, fol sub- 

 ascendent, involucri squamis apicem rubris. Corymbis initeo 

 nutant. 



Banks Pushut ; one of the most tropicial forms of Com- 

 posita. 



10. Ceterach. An vere distinct a Grammito. 



Rhizoma vix repens. Froudibus digitalibus vel fere spitha- 

 maeis carnosius fragilibus, pinnatis, pinnis alternant, oblongo 

 rotundatis subundulatis, et sublobatis, basi lata, supra glabris, 

 subtus squamis dense coriaceo membran tect. Capsulaj in 

 massas lineares, disposito, squamis, subobtect venateo (ut in He- 

 mionitis) nempe sub reticulata, versus margin vena parimaria 

 cujusque pinnas, flexuosa ; secundaria bifurcata ; tliecis in ramo 

 superiora, more solito, devisionibus ultimis rursus furcatis Intro 

 margin desineut. Crevices of rocks, Pushut. 



