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216 CHLORIS MELVILLIANA,

Desc. Frutex depressus ; radice lignea crassa longa. Bami decumbeiites, fioiiferi omnes et sterilium noniinlli adscendentes, adiilti glabri. Folia sparsa, petiolata, ellip- tico-obovata, v. obovata, integerrima, obtusa, quandoque retusa, novella super glabra, subtervillis longis laxis deciuu- bentibus, adulta utriiique glabra, veiiis siibter paulo emi- nentibus venulis anastomozantibus. Amenta utriusque sexus ramos breves villosos foliatos terminantes. Sqiiamce orbi- culato-obovatge ssepe retusae, fusco-nigricantes, villosse. Masc. 8-10-lm. loiiga, densa. Stamina 2-3, forsan saepius 3, filaraentis distinctis. SquamidcB (Nect.) duse, interiore paulo niajore, utraque apice incrassato. Fein. Squawula unica, interior. Ovarium brevissime pedicellatum, pedicello dia- metrum transversum capsulse vix seqnante, dense tomen- tosum, cinereum. Stylus longitudine varians nunc stigmata ^quans, nunc fere dimidio brevier.

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��48. JuNCus BiGLUMis. Lhin. sjj. pi. ed. 2, />. 467. Montin in Amcen. acad. 2, p. 266, t. S,/. 3. Ftor. Dan. 120. Zoeg.pl. island, in Olafs. reise2,p. 235. Vald in act. soc. Jiist. nat. hafn. 2, par. 1, j». 38. Willden. sp. pi. 2, p. 216. Fers. syn. \,p. 385. Smith hrit. l,jy. 382. Engl, bot. 898. Bicheno in Linn. soc. transact. 12, p. 320. Hooker scot, p)' 106.

ccixxxiii] 49. LuzuLA HYPERBOREA, spicis multifloris subum- bellatis pedunculatis sessilibusque (nunc omnibus sessilibus), bractea umbellse fol acea ; partialibus omnibus fimbriatis, rapsulis obtusis perianthia acuta subsequantibus, caruncula basilari seminis obsoleta, foliis planis.

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