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and I am the very last one.who would Inslst on a self-created name,, 



If the other botanists can unite on another one.. Should lt gene - 



rally become justified.to use an old name for the entlre Speeles,, 



then frl.^PfP^Oy^^.. would however to be most recommended. I 



would, lf nothinfr had been printed already.what has been printed,, 



name the complete Speeles .Purshiana, whereby all would have been 



best consldered ssntgxftxSx. . However, for this lt ls too late. It 



seems more lmportant to me, that the plants are recognized as/fnde- 



pendent species , and not being thown together for instance with 



the west-europaean £r. . . .SJ2^|_angula Legell , which has af ter alll 



smaller and very elongated frults. I have recently seen also spe- 



clmens of it from southern France, years back some from Sardinia and 



Belgium; earlier, the plants were known with certainty only fronr 



several localities in western France. It is mentioned with its traits 



by the Frenchman Legell, not known more closely to me,, and that in a 



Flora inedita of northern French departments, as can ipe read on the 



labels of Billow's Flora gallica et germanica explicata. Centurien 



(sie, but do not understand meaning.E.D. ) are perhaps today the mairr 



source for knowledge of &. obtusangula . Against their Separation of the 



antaretie form, I have nothing specific to contradict, the fruits are 



rather unripe.and that corresponds to all! .VW^kvA., coming from 



the antaretie archlpelago, which posess also a highly uniform habltat.. 

 truvteata. Süss 



C. teravolta Guhsg you seem not to have seen as yet.. The two co- 

 lors, which you may send, are hflmulata . also the var. Pulai 

 mulata is also found in South-Europe. The plant obviously immlgrated,, 

 and the pointed fruited form differs little from the latter; gener- 

 ally more stronge (verbatim: «harder« E.D.),and is not frequent in 

 collections.mostly o-ly in small rosettes or fragments. I myself, 

 have only a small sample from Gussone himself.. 



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