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Spain : Catalonia; Castile; Andalusia (only three localities; see 
Willk. & Lange, Prodr. et Suppl.). 
Corsica: Bonifacio! (Not known to Knoche in the Balearic Is.) 
Sardinia ! : frequent, and the only species of this affinity occurring 
(see Moris, FI. Sard. iii. 115). 
Sicily !: frequent and varying exactly as described by Moris in 
Sardinia, but the valuations are distinguished by Lojacono (FI. Sic. 
II. ii. 84) as 31. lingulata Lehm. and 31. humilis, although his 
descriptions of these ht 31. sicula. True 31. ccespitosa Schultz 
(lingulata Lehm.) is named by Lojacono “ 31. palustris vaiv 
strigulosa .” 
Italy: Pisa!; Tuscan alpes (Mugello) ; Vallombrosa; Abruzzi; 
Apennines of Latium (Fiori & Paoletti, FI. anal. Ital. ii. 370, who 
state that the plant is annual or perennial). 
Albania: Janina! 
Greece : Thessaly near Sermenica, and Neuropolis ! ; Argolis near 
Tyrinthium; Messenia, between Methone and Corone, Mt. Taygetos; 
Cyclades ins. Naxos. 
3Iacedonia: Lahana (C. II. Bay, 1918, in Herb. Mus. Brit.!). 
The plant recorded for Mt. Peristeri by Formanek is 31. idcea B. & H. 
fide Vandas, Beliq. Form. 411: 1909). 
Bulgaria : Dubnica ; Kavaklij ; (Velenovsky, FI. Bulg. 402 : 
1891; the plant recorded for Kara Bair is only 31. ccespitosa tide 
Vandas, l. c.). 
Serbia : Kladovo ! Velenovsky, l. c., mentions “ ByzantA also. 
It is clear that the species is extremely local throughout its range, 
only one or two localities being known in each country with the 
exception of Sicily and Sardinia. Owing to the incomplete original 
description (Gussone, FI. Sic. Syn. i. 214: 1842) there has been some 
confusion in the naming of some Sicilian and French material. Moris 
removes the difficulties by stating (FI. Sardoa, /. c.) that in Sardinia, 
where no other allied species occurs, 31. sicula varies much. The stems 
may be solitary or several, sometimes erect, sometimes decumbent, the 
base sometimes hardly rooting but sometimes long rooting, rarely 
simple, often branched, from 2 inches to 2 feet long ; the calyx sub¬ 
equalling the pedicels in fruit or sometimes, especially the lower, 
3-4 times longer, segments often obtuse but rarely acutish; the 
corolla limb, even in the same plant, sometimes concave and some¬ 
times battened out. Since the same forms evidently occur in Sicily 
and are the basis for Lojacono’s lingulata and humilis —which have 
the glabrescence, closed calyx with obtuse segments, and minute corolla 
of 31. sicula ,—it seems safe to assume that there is no justification 
for Bouy’s separation of the plant of western France from the more 
typical Corsican specimens. 
Although Gussone’s original character of the ebracteate inflor¬ 
escence is insisted upon bv all the authors I have consulted, it is 
fallacious, since the Todaro specimens from a type locality have the 
inflorescences with the same long, obtuse, elliptical bracts as in France, 
Jersey, and elsewhere. Some of the Sicilian specimens are consider¬ 
ably stouter, with bigger fruiting calyces than in the Jersey specimens, 
which exactly match the Nantes form; but the Jersey specimens were. 
