30 ISLAND OF COS. 
whether rare or common, which preceding 
authors have already described 1 . 
(l) I. A very curious small species of Plantain (Plttntago Linn.), of 
which there is a figure and description in CLLSICS'S " Plant arum 
Rar'torum Historia" lib. v. cap. 16. under the name of Catanance 
prima Dioscoridis ; but this has been omitted by Linnaus, and by 
all the editors of his works. The whole plant is scarcely an inch 
and a half in height: its leaves are of a narrow lance-shape, and 
ciliated ; the flowers in little, round, upright heads ; and these, 
together with the short stalks supporting them, are clothed with 
long soft wool. The species ought to be arranged near the Cretan 
Plantain (Plantago Cretica), to which it is nearly allied ; but it 
may be easily distinguished, either by the leaves, or by the heads 
of the flowers. We have called it PLANTAGO CATANANCHE. Plan- 
tago foliis lancenlatn-linearibus, cilia t is, pi/osis ; spied snbrotundd 
erectd, scapo brevissimo bracteisque lunatis. Catanance prima 
Diofcoritli.f. fins. Plant. Rar. Hist. 2. p. 112. cum tabula. 
II. A non-descript species of Crow-foot Ranunculus, with slender erect 
unbranched stems, and single flowers. We have called it 
RANf.NCLi.L's GRAciLis. Ranunculus caule simplici, gracili, ereclo : 
foliis radicalibus quinijuepartitis tripartitisqve, laciniis Jlabellifor- 
mibus sinuato-denlut'is ; caulinis multipartitis laciniis sublinearibus, 
glabris. Radices tuberoste, fasciculate. Folia mdicalia circttm- 
scriptione cordato sub rotunda, diametro pollicario vcl parurn- nltra ; 
petioli longi, pilosi : folia caulina duo sen tres sessilia, superiora 
subtriftda. Cattlis pedalis , teres, pubesctns. Calyx glabcr, reflejrus. 
Corolla magnitiidine R. repentis^ai'rf. Petala oborata. 
III. An elegant non-descrijt species of Trefoil (Trifoliiim Linn.} This 
we have named TRIPOLI CM ORNATUM. T> (folium annuunt, caulilus 
ramosis sub-erectis, folioli* obovatis argutissimf serratix, mucronalis, 
glabris ; stipulis oppositis : spicis terminalibus, solitariis, tubro- 
tuntlis, basi bracteatis, apice tterilibtis; bracteis suboctonis, cali/cis 
dentibus svbulatis aqvalibus. Caules striati pilosi. Folia striatu 
viz scmipollicnria, summa opposita. Petioli partiales ciliati, bre- 
Spictp pfdunculata" foliis breviores. firactite svbcordato- 
, nltidec. Calyx corolla dimidio brevior, basin versus pilosus. 
IV. Anon- 
