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with 2 or 4 clevaled lines, stigma undivided or slighlly palent 
4 ^ scions Jiliform. Florig, Brit. f. 624. The leaves are 
nol decurrent and Ihe elevaled lines on Ihe slem are often 
fainl. St. 1—3 fect high, oflen decumbent and rooling; Scions 
from Ihe lower joints of Ihe slem, nol from Ihe rool, very 
blender ^ nol lerminating lu a roseshaped luft of leaves. Deep 
dilches in pealhog, Lincoln, Kerry, Twidale, Dumfries. 
Belula 1 alba L. 1, rhomhoid-trian^nlar doublly serrate 
acuminate, scales of the fem. calkins 3“lobed, lateral lobes de- 
flexcd, middle lobe adscending, fr, obovaio-eliiplical shorler 
thaii the rounded. membranoiis margin. E, B. 2198 (upper 
fig.). L. usually glabrous, oflen covered with resinous spots abo¬ 
ve, always having a manifest lendency lo a rhomboidal form. 
Young shools moslly with resinous lubercules. Readly dislin- 
guished from Ihe following by ils leaves, but more ccrlainly 
by Ihe fruit. — Ralher common. While Eirch, 
B, 2 glutinosa Wallr. L. cordale-ovale unequally serrate 
acute, scales of the fem. calkins 3-jobed, lateral lobés ascen- 
ding middle lobe patent or ieficxed; '/r. broadly -obovate as 
long as the rounded membra nous~ margin. Ej. B. 2198 (lewer 
fig.). B. pubescens Rock. L. usually glabrous always more or 
less ovale. Not so elegant a Iree as the preceding. Twigs so- 
melimes pendulous. — /?. pubescens , 1, peduncles und young 
twigs downy. B. pubescens Elirh. Common. Common Bircji. 
II* Utdrag ur utländska arbeten* 
J[. Om slagtet Tubercularia af 1 . Koch -j Jever. (Mohls 
. ocb Schlechlendahls Botanische Zeilunc' 1813 N:r 10), 
På en förtorkad gren af Cytisus Laburnum fann Förf. 
Sphæria cinnabarrina och Tubercularia vulgaris, båda stadda 
i fullkomlig utbildning, vexande än ålskiljda, än blandade om 
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hvarandra och det till den grad, all båda framkommo i samma 
hop och från samma underlag; i delta fall intog Tubercularia 
de hos Sphaeriaii felande perilheciernas ställe, och visade sig än 
