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SHOET DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON THREE RUBI. 165<br />

lilacino trifido, lacinije media; lobulis subdivergentibus stylo antice<br />

deorsum redinico ; ca/mda ohovato-ovaU einan/inata mucronata dentes<br />

calicinos tequante aut supevante, hractea sua superatii.<br />

Perennis, floret Augusto et Septembri. Frequens iii pascuis<br />

humidis alpinis et subalpinis Helvetia, ad altitudinem sex millium<br />

trecentonim ad octo millium quingentorum pedum supra mare, ut<br />

supra Miirren, circa Sclieinige Platte et Grosse Scheidcck, inter<br />

Grosse Scheideck et FauUioru, &c.<br />

Var. fjlahra, planta humilior, pilis glandulosis nullis. In locis<br />

apricis circa octo millia pedum supra mare prope Miirren.<br />

Exempla hybrida inter E. capitulatam et E. minimam inveni.<br />

Ohservatioyies, Pagina superior foliorum et bractearum rugosa<br />

inferior plicato-costata est. Flores plerumque directionem horizontalem<br />

habent et juxtapositio florum bractearumque talis est, ut<br />

videantur flores quasi adpressi. Nervi calycis virentes sunt et<br />

pagina inter nervos stepe atro-purpurea maculosa est. Pili longi et<br />

glandulosi plerumque e basi nigra oriuntur. Folia et bractea3<br />

decussatim oppositfe ita ut racemus formam quadrangulam praebeat.<br />

Folia et bracteae exemplarum pusillorum dentes pauciores babent.<br />

E. cajntulata adliuc cum E. minima Scbleicli. hand dubie confusa<br />

est, differt i^ilis longis articulatis et glandulosis, pilis crispulis non<br />

adpressis pubescentibus, bracteis aggregatis et imbricatis, pagina<br />

superiore rugosa, inferiore-plicato-costata, floribus nunquam flavis,<br />

dente terminali foliorum et bractearum minus lato et obtuso,<br />

calycis nervis virentibus, in E. minima saspe nigro-imrpureis.<br />

Bractea capsulam superat. In E. minima capsula bracteam superat.<br />

E. capitulnta ab E. hirtella Jord., qufc propinqua, differt pubescentia<br />

minus copiosa foliis bracteisque atro-vireutibus, statura<br />

humiliore, floribus lilacinis bracteis ovatis superioribus basi cuneatis.<br />

Color foliorum et bractearum in E. hirtella flavo-virens, corolla)<br />

autem labii superioris pallido-lilacinus, inferioris albo-flavus, folia<br />

bracteseque multo latiores sunt, et sajpe sub-cordata3. Duo subspecies<br />

supersunt cum quibus nostram plantam comparare necesse<br />

est, E. pumila Kerner (in * Sclieda) ad flor. exsicc. Austro-Hungari-<br />

' cam i. (1881), pp. 43, 44) ct E. drosocalyx Freyn (in catal. de la Soc.<br />

Helv. pour I'ecbange dos plantes, 1885). E. jnunila non nisi in<br />

Tyrolo inventa est. Habet bracteas dentibus subradiantibus<br />

elongatis triangulari-lanccolatis in mucronem subulatum rigidum<br />

productis. Habet flores macula flava carentes. Capsulam truncatam<br />

dentes calycis superant. E. drosocalyx qua) in alpibus<br />

Carintbia) occurrit, ad E. cajntulata maximc proiiinqua, differt<br />

bractearum dentibus paucioribus, bractea capsulam suam non excedente,<br />

foliis bracteisque angustioribus et obtusius crenatis.<br />

BHORT DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON THREE RUBI.<br />

By W. 0. FocKE, M.D.<br />

I ' HAVE been asked to supplement my Notes on English Rubi,'<br />

printed in the April and May numbers of tliis Journal, by some<br />

descriptive remarks on three of the plants referred to, viz., 1\. put-

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