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long. 2 mm, lat. 1,3 mm (in saginoide long. 2,25 mm, lat. 1,6 mm); 
petala minora, long. 1,5 mm, lat. 1 mm (in saginoide long. 2 mm. 
lat. 1,5 mm); capsula matura sepala tertia vel quarta parte superans 
(in saginoide sepalis usque duplo longior), sepalis vulgo s'uberectis 
vix patentibus. 
It is of course to be expected that a plant of so 
wide an area should have been observed a long time 
ago. In fact, we find it represented on the same plate 
as the typical Sagina saginoides in Reichenbach’ s leones 
fl. germ, et helv., vol. Y, t. CCII, fig. 4962 and 4963 b, 
but there the two species are misconceived by the au- 
thor. The true S. saginoides (L.) is seen in fig. 4963 b 
(a very good drawing with enlarged details of flower 
and fruit), but it has received a new name: » Spergella 
macrocarpa », with the synonym » Spergula saginoides 
Pollini» (Reichenbach means Pollini’s Flora Veronensis, 
II, t. 1, f. 2). In fig. 4962 another species is represen- 
ted, which must be S. media. This figure is signed 
»Spergella saginoides (L.).» It is by no means so well 
drawn, except the details, a flower and a fruit, which 
quite sufficiently show that the plant is different from 
the genuine S. saginoides (L.) (Linnæus’s »Spergula 
saginoides»). 
There cannot be any uncertainty as to the question 
which of these two (4962 and 4963 b) is the true » sagi- 
noides » (L.). This species was quite plainly distinguish- 
ed and perfectly known before Reichenbach published 
his leones v. V. 0. Swartz has described and figured 
the Linnean species »Spergula saginoides» in K. Veten- 
skaps Academiens Handl., Stockholm 1789, p. 44, tab. 
1, fig. 2: it is the species with large flowers, long cap- 
sule, broad sepals and rather long, not roundish petals. 
- Gf. Wahlenberg in his Flora Lapponica, 1812, p. 138, 
quotes this passage and accentuates as the most im- 
portant features the following marks: »petala longitudine 
calycis, capsula calyce duplo longior». — The plate in 
