334 SOCIÉTÉ BOTANIQUE DE FRANCE. 
Var. j3. — Foliis majoribus, orbicularibus, basi cordatis. — Ex horto Au- 
dibertiano in herb. Mus. paris. — Patiia ignota. 
Sect. 2. Pachycarpos. — Deilosma Spach part 
Petala lineari-spathulata. Yalvæ crassæ, spongiosæ, indéhiscentes. 
2. H. pulmonarioides Boiss. Ann. sc. nat. 2, xvil, 68. M'alp. Rep. I, 
162. 
//. quadrangula Boiss. Ann. sc. nat. 2, XVII, 67. Walp. Rep. I, 161. — 
II. reticulata Aucher-Éloy in sched. n° 129. — Erysimum longisiliquum 
Aucher-Éloy in sched. n° 149. — Deilosma triste Spach in sched. 
Hesperis syriaca Cam. Ilort. med. p. 74, tab. 19. Clus. Hist. 296. Moris. 
Oxon. il, p. 252, § 3, tab. 10, f. 4. J. Bauh. Hist. ii, p. 879, f. 2. Chabr. 
Sciagr. 280, f. 6. Rai Hist. 790. AVelsch Ras. bot. 116. 
Hesperis peregrina siliquis geniculatis C. Bauh. Phytop. 380. 
Hesperis silvestris lotifolia flore albo parvo Park. Thcat. 628. 
Planta biennis, radice crassa napiformi, tota ochracea, pilis brevissimis glan- 
dulosis aliisque albis scariosis adpressis obsita vel basi tantum hispidula. Gaulis 
crassus, valde angulatus, erectus, sesquipedalis. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, ra- 
dicalia integerrima in petiolum planum longe attenuata, pilis furcatis hispidula, 
caulina ad basin ramorum sessilia, repanda aut integra, acuta, semiamplexi- 
caulia, subtriangulata, apice attenuata. Pedicelli glabri, teretes, patuli, calycem 
æquantes, flore delapso arcuati, fructibus maturis incrassati, fere 3 cent, longi, 
omnes bracteati, bracteis triangularibus pedunculum subæquantibus. Flores 
corymbosi ; petalis sordide flavis, lineari-spathulatis, post anthesin multo 
accrescentibus, calycem triplum æquantibus, limbo tertiam tantum petali par- 
tem æquante, 3 mm lato, rotundato ; stamina majora exserta, minora basim 
antherarum majorum non attingcntia, basi crassa tereti inscrtis. Racemi 
fructiferi longissimi. Siliquæ juniores glandulosæ, adultæ glaberrimæ, cum 
pedunculis divaricatæ, crassissimæ, 14-16 cent, longæ, lateraliter subcom- 
pressæ, valvarum carina cum columnis placentiferis prominula quadrangulæ, 
rigidæ, fragiles, forsan indéhiscentes, valvis seclione transversali triangulari¬ 
bus, maxime spongiosis, dissepimento passim incrassato, stigmalibus brevis¬ 
simis. Semina elongata, nidulantia, cotyledonibus paulum conduplicatis. 
Crescit ad Odessa (Aucher-Éloy n° 149 in herb. Mus. paris.), ad Alep 
(Aucher-Éloy n : 129, Rauwolf). —V. sp. in herb. Mus. paris, et DC. 
Var. pedicellis calyce longioribus. ( Leucoium marinum Rauw. Ilodocp. 
part. 1, c. 4. — Hesperis syriaca sive Leucoium marinum D. Ramvolfii 
Cam. Hort. med. p. 74, tab. 20). — Crescit ad Tripoli. 
Obs. — Leucoium melancholico colore Best Syst. eyst. ord. 2, p. 15, 
f. 3 ( L. melancholicum John Gerarde Herb. 463) opinor Cheirantho 
