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TAB. 6482.
WAHLEN"BERGIA TENUIFOLIA.
Native of Dalmatia.
Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACE^:.•Tribe CAMPANULES.
Genus WAHLENBEEGIA, Schrad.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL vol. ii. p. 555.)
WAHLENBEEGIA (Edraianthus) tenuifolia; acaulis, foliis gramineis anguste lineari-
elongatis glabriusculis spinuloso-ciliolatis ciliolis ereeto-incurvis, ramis floriferis
patentim pilosis decumbentibus, floribus capitatis bracteato-involucratis, bracteis
hirsutis e basi late ovata v. suborbiculata lineari-elongatis subacutis exterioribus
flores superantibus, calycis hirsuti segmentis subalatis sinubus edentatis, corolla
infundibulari-campanulata, filamentis liberis late ovato-subulatis hirsutis, stylo
patentim piloso ápice glabro attenuate, stigmatibus brevibus.
W. tenuifolia et dalmática, Alph. DC. Monog. Campan, pp. 133, 134.
Edraianthus tenuifolius et dalmaticus, Alph. DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 419.
E. tenuifolius, Boiss. Fl. Orient, vol. iii. p. 887 ; JReichb. in Fl. Germ. vol. xix.
t. 1589.
Campanula tenuifolia, Waldst. et Kit. PI. Ear. Hung. vol. ii. p. 168, t. 155.
C. graminifolia, Host, Fl. Austr. vol. i. p. 268, excl. syn.
The genus Edraianthus was established by Alphonse
De Candolle (in the " Prodromus "), for a small group of
plants, originally placed in Campanula, and on the division
of that genus rightly referred to Waldmbergia, from which
latter it differs solely in the very peculiar habit of all the spe-
cies, which are stemless, with linear grassy radical leaves, and
suberect or decumbent flowering branches bearing heads of
sessile flowers, which are involúcrate by imbricating bracts.
About four species are known, all natives of Southern
Austria (Dalmatia, Croatia, and Transylvania), except one,
which I have not seen, the E. Owerinianus of Ruprecht, a
native of the Caucasus, and which from the description
must differ very widely from its European congeners. Of
the latter, E. dalmaticus appears to me to be identical
with E. tenuifolius, and is indeed a native of the same
mountains; the glabrous flowering-stems, on which the
MARCH 1ST, 1880.