•279 
English Botany, vol. 30. 1810, p. 2105, is also the same 
species, recognizable by the large flowers and long cap- 
sules, but the drawing is exaggerated with regard to 
the thickness of stem and peduncles. The specimen 
drawn there originated from Ben Lawers, and the au- 
thor says as to the identity of the species: »We are 
certain it is that of Linnæus». This figure it quoted 
by Presl to his S. Linncei in Bel. Hænk. II: 1 , p. 14 
(1831). — We also find exactly the same plant in Flora 
Danica, v. 9, t. 1577, 1818, in Svensk Botanik pi. 765, 
and in Pollini’s Flora Yeronensis, II, 1822, t. 1, f. 2, 
signed »Spergula saginoides» (just the figure quoted by 
Beichenbach (le. Y, pi. CCII, fig. 4963 b) to his »Sper- 
gella macrocarpa», see above). 
The misleading »macrocarpa» unfortunately still 
figures in the literature of later years. It occurs e. g. 
in E. Fiek’s Flora von Schlesien, 1881, p. 68. The true 
saginoides is quite correctly described there (»Kelch- 
blätter etwas länger als die Blumenblätter» etc.), but 
it is accompanied by a »var. ß macrocarpa Bchb.» r 
which is said to have »Blumenblätter so lang als die 
Kelchblätter, Kapsel dicker» • — all of which is without 
support in Beichenbach’s le., v. Y, pi. CCII. — In Balia 
Torre’s and Sarntheim’s enumeration (Die Farn- und 
Blutenpflanzen von Tirol etc., p. 154, 155) we find both 
»S. Linnæi Presl» and »S. macrocarpa Bchb.» 
In Dalla Torre’s and Sarntheim’s work also a 
variety tenella of S. saginoides is enumerated. This 
variety (from Haller Salzbergwerke in the Tyrol) was 
first published by Murr in Deutsche botan. Monatsschrift 
XY (1897), p. 78, and is perhaps the same as S. media 
Brügger: »Eine sehr zarte Form mit niederliegenden, 
sehr verlängerten (bis 1 dm langen) Stämmchen, habi- 
tuell der S. apetala ähnlich. . . Sonst durchgehends im 
Gebiete die robustere, grossfrüchtige Form, var. macro- 
carpa Hausm. » (Murr). 
