XR. J. BALL’S SPICILFGIUX FLOEB MAROCCANE.

Spicilegium F lo r s Rlaroccans. By JOHN BALL, Esq., F.X.S., F.L.S.

[Read March 1, 1877.1

(PLATES 1X.-XXVIII.)

IKTRODUCTORP OBSERVATIONS.

THE territory of Marocco extends from the Straits of Gibraltar, with the neighbouring part of the Mediterranean at its northern extremity, to the great desert on the southern side of the Great Atlas, and from the frontier of Algeria to the Atlantic coast of Northern Africa. Of this extensive region, about equal in extent to Spain, i t may be truly said that none other so easy of access is so little known to geographers.

Although the chief ports are within a few days’ journey from London or Marseilles, and are freely open to Europeans, SO little is known of the interior that the maps, all founded on native in- formation, which profess to represent the directiou of the moun- tain-ranges and the course of’ the chief rivers, are hopelessly a t variance, and of the best of them it may be said that the little positive knomledge we pomess shows that even in its main features it is very nide of the truth.

The causes of our ignorauce of the country are easily stated. The traditional policy of the government has been hostile to the admission of strangers into its terrritory; and as regards the natives of Christian States the difficulties have been aggravated by the fanatical character of a great part of the native population. Bu t a still more serious, and probably a more enduring, obstacle to exploration arises from the fact that fully two thirds of the entire country is inhabited by independent tribes, who recognize no external authority, even when they accord a nominal supre- macy to the Sultan of Marocco. These tribes, descendants of the original Berber population of Northern Africa, which has never been subjugited by any of the foreign rulers who have held the coast and the open country, occupy uearly all the mountain region Posseeshg, it mould seem, many of the rude virtues common to such populations, they are constantly engaged in internal petty warfare, and always disposed to regard strangers not of their own tribe as lawful prey.

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all b u t impossible to strangers. The fine peaks of the Beni IIassan, within sight of the rock of Gibraltar and easy reach of Tangier and Tetuan, have never been approached by a traveller ; and Sir John Drummond Hay, whose knowledge of the people and influence amongst them surpass that of any other European, pronounced against the feasibility of the excursion which we earnestly desired to meke in that direction.

As a necessary consequence of what has been stated, our know- ledge of the Flora of Marocco has been extremely limited, and, in spite of what has been done during the last few years, is still most imperfect ; and the time is yet distant when it will be possible to give more than a rude outline of the relations between the vege- table population and thoso of the surrounding regions.

The earliest notice that I have found of botanical research into the Marocco Flora is in the ‘ Istoria Botanica’ of Zanoni (Cura- tor of the Botanic Garden at Bologna), published in 16’75. He had received plants and seeds from Tangier from a Mr. Alexander Balaam, who appears to have been a merchant trading with Tangier during some part of the time when that town was held by the Portuguese and the English. The next contribution, and a more considerable one, is contained in a list published (1696) in the 19th vol. of the ‘ Philosophical Transactions ’ (p. 239 et seq.), but drawn up in 16‘73 by Mr. Spotswood, a surgeon who lived there during the Eiiglish occupation, and gnthered plants xbich he gave to the same Mr. Bnlaam and to Dr. lllorison a t Oxford There is some difficulty in identifying many of the species named ; and I h u e not thought it north while to cite the plailts contained in Mi-. Spotswood’s iist.

After the evacuation of Tangier by the English, under circum- stances little creditable t o our national honour, communication between E nope and Marocco became more unfrequent than ever, and, exceptiag some occasional negotiation for the release of Christian captives, seems to have almost ceased. A t the latter end of the last century relations between some European powers and the Marocco Government became more frequent and almost amicable, so that travelling in the country seems to have been easier than i t has been in more recent times. A French botanist, M. Broussonnet, who also visited the Canary Islands and sonic parts of Spain, spent some time in Marocco during the last ten years of the century. H e explored the neighbourhood of Moga- dor and Tangier, Tisited seieral of the ports on the Atlantic coast,

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and made at least one journey into the interior, in which he reached Fez and Mequinez. Broussonnet sent specimens to the chief botanists of his day-to Willdenow a t Berlin, to Desfon- taines at Paris, to Gouan at Montpellier, and t o Cavanilles at Madrid. Most of the la t te r were published by that excellent botanist in the ‘Anales de Ciencias Naturales,’ a now scarce peri- odical which secured for Spain a temporary place i n the republic of science, w-hich she did not long retain. A few of Broussonnet’s plants were also published by Willdenow i n his edition of the ‘ Species Plantarum and a few others are referred t o in Desfon- taines’s ‘ Flora Atlantica ;’ but the greater par t of his collections, now in t h e museum at Montpellier, remained unexamined unt i l M. Cossonvisited that city. The results of t h e latter’s study of tha t collection form a portion of the materials, which we hope smn t o see published. Unfortunately Broussonnet seems to have been somewhat careless respecting the localities whence his specimens came, aud to have sometimes intermixed those from the Canary Islands, South Marowo, Taiigier, and Spain. Several undoubted errors tha t ha\-e been detected throw doubt on the authenticity of his localities when unconfirmed by other authorities.

About the time of Broussonnet’s visits t o Marocco Mr. Schous- boe was appointed as Danish consular agent at Rlogador, and subsequently at Tangier. H e was a n active and intelligent ob- server, who studied carefully the vegetation of both the districts above named. Besides this h e collected a few plants in t h e course of a journey in which h e reached the city of Marocco, and another M hich led him t o Fez and M q u i n e z . He mas the author of the first attempt a t a Flora of Marocco, t h e first portion of a hich, including the Linneau classes from Monan- dria to Enneandria, 131th a few new species of other classes, was published in Danish and in Gertnan iri 1801. Unfortunately, t h e M ork remained unfinished. Although Schousboe lived for inany gears afterwards chiefly at Tangier, and added very largely to his collections, 1 am not aware that he worlred at the continuat.iou of t h e work, VI hich, in the German edition, bears the title “ Beob- achtungen uber das Geaachsreich i n Marokko.” Schousboe’s herbarium is preserved at Copenhagen ; but the large collection of his duplicates passed not long ago into the possession of M. Cosson, who has liberally given sets of them to the E e w Herba- rium aiid to myself.

Early in this century a French ecclesiastic, the Abbe Philippe n 2

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Durand, visited Marocco, reached Fez and Mequinez, and, so far as I know, alone of European travellers traversed some part of t h e great forest of Mamora, respecting which many a strange story circulates among the natives of Marocco.

In 1809 was published t h e first edition of the work which gives by far the fullest account of Marocco tha t has yet appeared, ‘ An Account of the Empire of Marocco,’ by James Grey Jackson. Mr. Jackson lived for the greater par t of sixteen years i n South Marocco ; he became familiar with the language and manners of the people, and must have acquired more of their confidence than any previous European visitor, as he not only travelled by several routes through the lower country near the coast, bu t was allowed t o join a military force proceeding over the Atlas from Marocco t o Tarudant.

Mr. Jackson does not, however, seem t o have ventured on entering the city o f Tarudant ; nor, though he approached Wad- noon, did he actually visit that place.

Though not a naturalist, Jackson was a very intelligent obser- ver ; and on some points, especially regarding the curious cactoid Euphorbias of South Marocco, he has given information interest- ing to botanists.

The next contributor t o t h e knowledge of t h e Marocco flora was M. Salzmann, an active collector who, after previous visits t o other interesting spots in the Mediterranean, spent a consider- able time a t Tangier i n 1825, and seems t o have explored very carefully the district within convenient reach of tha t city. Salz- mann does not appear t o have had much scientific knowledge ; but he was a sharp-eyed collector, and often detected differences between plants found by him and allied species, with which they had been confounded by other botanists. Seceral of these were published by t h e la te &I. A. P. Decandolle, then at the zenith of his scientific fame and authority, who had sliortly before com- menced t h e publication of tha t colossal work, the ‘ Prodromus Systematis Katuralis.’ Others remained unpublished, except for t h e manuscript name attached t o them by Salzmann. As, how- ever, his collections were sold, and were sufficiently numerous t o supply t h e demands of the chief botanists of his time, this has been, I think, justly regarded as equivalent t o publication, and as constituting a title t o priority over names subsequently given by other botanists.

Very complete sets of Salzmann’s Tangier plants were con-

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tained in the herbarium of Mr. Bentham (presented by him to the national collection at Kew), and in that of my late lamented friend M. Jacques Gay (purchased by Dr. Hooker, and also given t o the K e a Herbarium); so that I have had the opportu- nity of examining original specimens of nearly all Salzmanii’s plants.

I n 1827 my excellent friend the late Philip Barker Webb spent three weeks at Tangier, 2nd then visited Tetuan. where he was able to ascend two of the neiglibouring mountains, and t o discover amongst other novelties a new genus of Crucifer=, for which, up to the present time, no other locality is known. His collections, preserved along with the remainder of his great herbarium at Flo- rence, have been examined by M. Cosson and by myself.

During t h e years betweeu 1840 and 1870 many botanists touched a t Tangier, including my friend ill. Boissier, with the late M. Reuter, Dr. Lagrange, M. Blanche, 35. Mar6s, and M. Jourdan. Several of the plants collected by MM. Boissier and Reuter were described by then] in a little volume styled ‘ Pugillus Plantarum Novarum AfricE borealis Hispanique australis.’ I n that work the criteria for the admission of new species, so justly maintained in the great works on which M. Boissier’s fame depends, were somewhat unduly relaxed.

In 1859 the late Rev. R. T. Lowe contributed t o the ‘ Proceed- ings ’ of this Society st list of plants observed by him in the im- mediate neighbourhood of Mogador ; aud most of these are pre- served in the herbarium bequeathed by him t o the Royal Gardens a t Kew.

I11 June 1851 I made an attempt t o reach thc higher summits of the Lesser Atlas in the neighbourhood of Tetuan ; but, owing to the disturbed condition of the district, I was limited t o the iiiimediate neighbourliood of the city, which, however, offers many species of interest not fourid about Tangier.

I n 1869 my indefatigable friend, Mr. George Maw, was some- n hat more successful than myself, and mas permitted t o ascend part of the Beni Hosmar, previously visited by Webb.

I n 1867, chiefly through the influence and with the aid of M. Cosson, whose intimate acquaintance ~ i t h the flora of Northern Africa is unrivalled by any conipetitor, the successful botanical traveller Pulr. Balansa n as despatched to Mogador, m-ith the object of attempting to investigate the flora of the Great Atlas range as iar as circuiiistances I\ o d d permit. Although receiving every

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assistance from the French diplomatic agents in Marocco, his progress was impeded at every step ; and after about a fortnight he was forced to abandon the attempt and return to Mogador. H e nevertheless was able to collect R large number of the new and remarkable species which characterize the skirts of the great mountain-range and the lower mountains that diverge from the main chain.

The short time a t his disposal enabled M. Balansa to collect SO

few duplicates that many of the new species subsequently de- scribed by M. Cosson are not to be found in the principal her- baria of Europe, and seveial of these, as well as the other plants of his journey, are preserved only in the magnificent herbarium of M. Cosson.

Aloiig with other materials scarcely to be found outside that herbarium, I should mention a collection made by M. Warion, in the medical service of the French army, a good observer and col- lector, who gathered many plants on the eastern frontier of Prlarocco, adjoining the French province of Oran.

Early in the year 1871 Dr. Hooker, alio had long felt a desire to explore the range of the Great Atlas, applied to Earl Granville, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to use the influeiice of the Euglish Government a t the court o f Marocco t o obtain the necessary permission of the Sultan. The information received from Sir John Drummond HaI, our minister a t the court of Ma- rocco, was so far favourable that Dr. I-Iooker determined to leave England in the spring o f that year ; and I was fortunate enough t o be able to accompaiiy him, along with our mutual friend Mr. George Maw, who, as well as myself; had already made an attempt tovisit the extremity of the chain of the Lesser Atlas of Marocco in the neighbourhood of Tetuan.

W e received before starting valuable information and aid from our excellent friend hl. Cosson, who was kind enough to prepare a manuscript list of all the plants then known or believed to in- habit the Marocco territory, as far as his unequalled means of in- formation would go.

In our subsequent course we were under deep obligations to our active and energetic representative in hfarocco already named, and to all the British consular agents on the coast, and especially t o the late Mr. Carstensen, then Vice-consul at Mogador, through whose hospitality and active assistance our stay was rendered agreeable, and our journey into the interior materially expedited.

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excursion to Cape Spartel, and thence along the Atlantic coast to the so-called Cave of Hercules, we started for Tetuan, which we reached early on the 12th of April. On the followiiig day we ascended the highest of the picturesque mountains that enclose the verdant valley of Tetuan, called Beni Hosmar, the same which had been visited more than forty years before by the late Mr. Webb. Although the season was not yet sufficiently advanced, we collected nearly all the species found by our predecessor, with several others of much interest. After another day well speut on the rocky ground in the immediate neighbourhood of the city, we started on the 15th to ride along the coast to Ceuta, thereby adding some additional species to our rapidly growing collections. The botanical exploratioil- of the coast between Ceuta aud Tan- gier, on the seaward slopes of the Anger3 Mountains, would be of great interest ; and uutil this has been effected i t will not be pos- sible to say whether Rhododendron ponticzcm, Helinnthemzcm l a s t anthum, and several other remarkable species now known on the northern side of the Straits of Gibraltar are really absent from the southern shores. The country, hoviever, is considered too unsafe, especially for travellers starting from Ceuta, and we tra- versed the Straits in the felucca, by which the garrison and popu- lation of Ceuta keep up conimiinication with Algeciras. Two days’ unexpected detentiou on the Spanish side was not ill em- ployed in a survey of the spring vegetation of the hills above Algeciras and the rock of Gibraltar. Returning t o Tangier we were detained two days more, which were employed in putting iu order and further increasing our collections. Mr. Maw, who had returned direct from Tetuan to Tangier, made in the interval two fruitful excursions to some swampy brackish lakes about 14 miles S.S.FV. of the latter city.

Having at length received the necessary letter from the Sultan to the Governor of Mogador, we left Tangier on the 20th of April i n the French steamer ‘ V6rit6,’ bound for the Atlantic ports of Marocco and the Cmary Islands. On the following day we lay oERabat, but, owing to the heavy swell, were unable to land. On the following day, however, we landed a t Casa Blanca, or Dar el Beida, a place not mentioned by any of the botanists who have visited the coast. Having made a tolerably large collection on the bare hills near Casa B1anc3, and been hospitably received by Mr. Dupuis, the British vice-consul, we continued our voyage to

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Mogador, not ha;-ing any faronrable opportunity for landing at Mazagan o r Saffi. W e reached Mogador on the 25th of April ; and after attending t o the requisite arrangements for our journey we visited the curious neighbourhood of tha i town. The vegeta- tion of the neighbourhood, and especially that of the low rocky island which forrns t h e port, had suffered severely from the perio- dical visitation of locusts which had lately passed over the district; but me were able to secure most of the interesting species found by our predecessors ; aiid on t h e 29th me started for the interior, making a slight detour by keeping southward near the coast for some five or six miles, and thereby making fuller acquaintance with the Argan forest, and then across the country till we rejoined our tents and baggrge outside the walls of the extensive castle of t h e Governor of Shedma. Dur ing most of the day me had t ra- versed t h e northern par t of Haha, a very large province tha t ex- tends along t h e coast from h'iogador to Agadir and t o the skirts of the Atlas chain. It is needless t o say that on this, as o n each succeeding day of our ride to Marocco, we encountered many in- teresting plants, some altogether new t o ns, some known only from dried specimens, and several hitherto uudescribed. O n the evening of the 30th we reached Ain Oumnst, a spring where tra- vellers necessarily encamp, as for many miles eastward the country is a n arid stony desert, closely resembling in aspect, as vie11 as in i t s regetation, some parts o f t h e Sahara.

On the 1s t of May we encamped a t Sheshaoua, a veritable oasis, where in the shade of fruit-trees we were surprised t o find many common European species. The soil surrounding it appears to contain much gypsum, and produced an unusual proportion of Chenopodiacere.

A long ride on the following day took us t o Misra ben Kara, a place near the banks of a considerable stream t h a t f l o w north- ward from t h e Great Atlas; aud on the following day a short bu t hot ride across the glowing plain took us t o the ancient capital of Marocco.

While detained in hfarocco Mr. Maw made a n interesting ex- cursion t o the nearest of some rocky hills of metamorphic rock tha t rise a few miles N.W. of the city. He brought back a new species of Boerhavia, For&lchlia tenncissiiiza, Andropogon laniger, and several other species n o t hitherto seen by us.

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we turned our faces towards the chain of the Great Atlas, which rises in full view of the city. Early on the following day we reached Tasseremont, and there began t o make acquaintance with the special flora of the Great Atlas, gathering several of the spe- cies first seen by M. Balansa, as well as some others which he had not met. Being unable to continue our course towards the high range immediately south of Tasseremont, we turned S.W., and en- camped on the same eveniug near a place called Ourika, at the opening of a valley to which we have given the same name. This valley appears to penetrate deeply the main chain of the Atlas, which rose patched with snow in the background. W e natu- rally desired to ascend its course, and started on the 10th of May for that purpose. The scenery and the vegetation were full of in- terest ; and it was with much annoyance that, a t the pressing in- stance of our escort, who alleged an insurrection among the people of the upper valley, we were forced t o return to a village near the opening. On the following day we skirted the base of the mountains through a district called Reraya, and encamped near to a stream descending from the’main chain. It now became clear that there existed an organized plan on the part of our escort, in con- cert with the native chiefs, to prevent 11s from accomplishing our design of penetrating to the interior of the Great Atlas chain. The firmness of Dr. Hooker prevailed, however, over the reluctance of the escort ; and the circumstance that we were able i o secure the cooperation of a native Berber Sheik, final1.y enabled us to do a good deal more than the latter originally contemplated. On the following day we crossed a low range dividing the stream last men- tioned from a parallel one which flows through the valley, which, from the name of the tribe inhabiting it, we called Kit Nesan*.

On the following day the friendly Sheik undertook t o conduct US t o the snow j and, as we had seen no snow save in patches on

* To the best of my belief the Ait Mesan Talley, as well as the parallel and nameless one in which we camped on the 11th of May, is included within the district known as Reraya ; and accordingly the labels for all Dr. Hooker’s plants collected in both valleys bear the latter name. As there appeared to be no doubt that the vulley wherein me passed five days iscorrectly named Alt Mesan, I have adopted that name in mylabels, and ha,e reserved the nameReraya for the ralley first reached by us and the ridges which we traversed in approaching and dcparting from it. I hare menbioned this, as without such explanation botanists might hereafter suppose that plants gathered a t the same time and place by Dr. Hooker and myself came from two distinct localities.

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the highest part of the chain, this was taken to mean the ascent of a t least one ofthe higher summits. Oa the 13th we followed a steep and difficult track, amid a vegetation tnainly new to us, -where it was tantalizing to be content with a specimen or t w o that could be snatched while pressing onward-and some time after midday reached the last village, called Arround, standing a t nearly 7000 feet above the sea-level, a short distance beyond a barrier partly composed of rock and partly of ancient moraine, the only undoubted moraine seen by us in the Atlas. Here the scenery assumed a singularly stern character. The floor of the valley extends for some way nearly level, and then slopes gradu- ally upward, enclosed on every side bu t one by steep aud rugged peaks, nearly bare of snow. But in the hoilows and recesses of the valley, at no great height above the village, snow lay in various directions ; and toxards one snow-bed our guide, in accordance with his promise, led us. Although niaiiy plants were not yet in flower, we found a t every step something of engrossing interest- among the novelties that which most struck us beiug the curious Chrysalzthemunz with scarious involucre, which I have called Chry- suntJ6ernum Cutananche. Our return to our camp in the l o ~ e r valley in great part by night, and in almost pitch darkness, was difficult and even somewhat dangerous.

Our object now was to persuade the Sheik to let us sleep at the village of Arround, whence we felt that we could in one way or other attain the higher region, and thus accomplish in soiiie measure the main object of our journey. After some negotiation this plan was arranged ; and on the 15th of May, before the sun had well risen, IT e started from Arround with a very threatening sky, determined to ascend as far as might be possible. Fortu- nately the Sheik did not insist onaccompanying us, but appointed two guides with injunctions not to let us go beyond a small stone hut a t the base of the ascent to the pass of Tagherot. It should have been stated that on our first visit two days before, we ascer- tained that a somewhat frequented track leads from the head of kit Mesan to the upper part of the SOUS valley on the opposite side of the main chain. The weather had become cold and rainy when we reached the hut above referred to. Kere our guides en- deavoured to make us understand that it was too dangerous to go further ; and we made no show of resistance, but encouraged them t o make a fire in the hut while we collected plants round about. As soon as they were thus engaged we started up the track, which

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throughout a steep ascent of over 3000 feet is well engineered, sometimes in regular zigzags, such as are seen in Switzerland or Tyrol. It is needless to say that every step in our ascent was of engrossing interest ; but the Keather grew steadily worse, as the rain became sleet, and then snow. W e were overtaken by our guides, who used every means of threat and entreaty to induce us to return : for a time we silenced them by some silver coins ; but they were in a pitiable state as we approached the summit. Except on some ledges of rock it was no longer possible to get a t plants; and the snow driven by a violent mind made it impos- sible to see more than a few feet. Mr. Maw alone reached the actual crest of the ridge, bu t could see nothing. I, as well as Dr. Hooker, was alittle lower down; and.when Mr. M a w returned we readily consented to forego the barren honour of touching the summit, which is, by our observations, about 11,500 feet above the sea.

On the fo!lowing day we returned to our camp, the valley above Arround beinq deep in snow, and no more botanizing being there practicable. The follouing day was needed to arrange and pack our collections ; and on the 18th we reached a place called Sektana, near the base of the main range, of M hich it commands a very fine view. On the nest morning Mr. Maw left us, to return to England, taking with him two of our escort ; while we proceeded n estward by a place called Gurguri, and,afcer crossing the wide stony bed of a torrent called Oued en Fisk, reached Amsmiz, the largest place we had yet seen o n the skirts of tlie Atlas. Here, after some trouble, we succeeded in making another excursion into tlie interior of the range; and from a village near the head of the valley, m-here we slept, we were able on the 23rd of May to ascend the highest sum- mit near its head, called Djebel Tezah. The chain has here di- minished considerably in height ; for while the Tagherot pass is as nearly as possible 11,500 feet in height, the summit of Djebel Tezah only attains to about 11,000 feet. Thence we were able to see across the great valley of Sous, and for the first time beheld the parallel range, or Anti-Stlas, some 60 miles distant,which, at ~1

rough estimate, can scarcely attain the height of 10,000 feet. Returning to Amsmiz, our course lay through the sloping plain

a t the foot of the mountains to Mzouda ; and on the 26th we passed Keira (where M. Balansa had found a friendly reception), and en- camped near the village of Seksaoua. Two days, on one of which we ascended a iieighbouring mountain to the height of some

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4600 feet above the sea, were very productive in species not before seen, and one or two of them altogether new. W e next went to Milhai’n, psssing on the way Iniintenout, where the main track from Marocco to Tarudant enters the mountains. Our next camp was outside the Kasbah or Castle of the Governor of Mzouda, theu engaged in local war with the Governor of Haha. This affair caused us, in compliance with an urgent letter forwarded by courier from Mr. Carstensen, to alter our route and proceed northward, to a place called Msliala, on the border of the provinces of Haha and Shedma. Here the Governor of the latter province was encamped with a considerable force of his retainers, watching the progress of the petty war pending between the neighbouring tribes. On the next evening we met Mr. Carstensen by appoint- ment at the Kasbah of the Governor of Shedma; and instead of returning direct to Mogador, we proceeded together on the 1st of June through a pleasant country to Ain el Hadjar, a place where numerous springs break out from the foot of the Djebel Hadid, or Iron Mountain, a long, flat-topped ridge that rises near the coast some 15 miles north of Mogador. Although the heat mas by no means oppressive, the season was rather far advanced for seeing the vegetation to full advantage; but we passed a not unprofitable day upon the mountain, the chief drawback on our enjoyment being the extraordinary number and \ ariety of spiny and prickly bushes a hich cover its slope. One of these, which escaped the vigilant eyes of &I. Balaiisa when he visited the mountain, is the widely spread tropical Celasfrus, which, when found in the south of Spain, was taken to be a new species and calied C. europew, but which Professor Oliver has shoan to be the C. senegolensis of Larnarck. W e had already gathered this plant near the foot of the Great Atlas ; but until theu it was not known t o grow any- where between Senegal and the south of Spain.

On June 3rd we returned to Mogador, and were again hospitably entertained by Mr, and Mrs. Carstensen, until the arrival of a British steamer enabled us t o take our passage homeward. We were able to spend a great part of one day at Safli, where we em- barked cargo, and, among other plants of interest, were euabled to add to the short list of Canary-Island plants t h a t extend t o the African coast the curious fles?iy Zygopkyllum Ebntanesii, figured by Webb in the ‘ Phytographia Canariensis.’

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short walk along the shore near tha t town, and add two or three species t o our list of the coast-flora.

On reaching Tangier Dr. Hooker’s engagements forced him t o proceed at once t o Gibraltar, and thence return t o England. I was enabled t o spend one day a t Tangier, and after an absence of no t quite two months found the aspect of the vegetation wonder- fully altered, since t h e appearance of a large number of species not before seen gave the neiglibourhood an aspect of complete novelty. The flowers of the CYi,.ti had disappeared; bu t i n their place were many Composits and Labiata: and other summer-flowering species. The most conspicuous was the magnificent Xalvia bicolor, which at- tains a height of 7 or 8 feet, each of i ts numerous branches bearing the conspicuous white-and-blue flowers to which it owes its name.

During the period of our stay i n the interior we had arranged, through the kind assistance of Mr. Carstensen, to send two natives t o collect plants near Agadir, about 80 miles south of Mogador, near t o Cape Guer, where the Great Atlas range finally subsides into the Atlantic Ocean. The result, which seemed t o show tha t the character of tbe vegetation does not vary much along this par t of t h e coast, yet sufficed to prove that with due perseverance some- thing might be accomplished towards extending our knowledge of t h e Marocco flora through native collectors.

M. Cosson, having succeeded in securing t h e active assistance of the late M. Beaumier, French Consul at Mogador, and sparing on his own side neither trouble nor expense t o effect his object, has caused two native collectors to travel into t h e interior for seTTera1 successive seasous. One of these, a very intelligent Jew, a native of Akka, a place on t h e southern side of the Great Atlas between the rivers Sous and Noun, has been chiefly employed i n the region, utterly inaccessible to European travellers, between the oasis of Akka and t h e neighbourhood of the Atlantic coast. The other, a Schleuh by birth, and a native of the mountains, has been mainly engaged in making collections in a district nearly adjoining the portion of the Great Atlas which we n e r e able t o explore. The collections first sent home were i n indifferent condition, and t h e specimens incomplete ; but M. Cosson’s perseverance over- came all difficuities, and t h e collections lately received would do credit to a professed naturalist.

W h e n I consulted my excellent friend &I. Cossoll on the sub- ject of t h e present publication, he was good eiiough to suggest that we should jointly bring out a work which might bear t o the

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future Flora of Maroccothe same relation that Desfontaine’s ‘ Flora Atlantica’ will hold to the, I trust, not distant Flora of Algeria.

I may a t once say that I have no claim whatever to approach M. Cosson’s extensive and accurate knowledge of the flora of North Africa and South-western Europe, and 1 feel that it would be a high honour to be associated with him in such a work as that suggested; but seeing that circumstances have placed me in posses- sion of a considerable mass of materials that must go towards its production, I have thought it better without further delay to pre- sent it to this Society under the title ‘‘ Spicilegium Flora Maroc- canBe,” accompanied by lithographed plates illustrating some of the new species described, presented to the Society jointly by Dr. Hooker and myself.

I trust that M. Cosson will carry out his iutention of speedily publishing in a compendious form the rich materials for the Flora of Marocco, most of which are in his exclusive possession, and thus preparing the way for a more complete work.

In the fo l lo~ ing descriptive catalogue I have, as a rule, avoided referring to plants not yet published by M. Cossou, excepting where this was necessary to name o r illustrate specimens collected by us or other recent travellers, although, through his liberality, I am in possession of many species not enumerated in the follow- ing pages.

Altliough I feel that the time has not yet come for attempting a general survey of the Marocco flora, and the materials for dis- cussing the subject must remain further incomplete until the publication of the long expected Flora of Slgeria, it would be in- expedient to close these introductory remarks without a brief view of the geographical relations of the Marocco species to those of the surrounding regions. For this purpose I have enumerated in tabular form the Natural Orders indigenous t o Marocco under headings tha t show the distribution of the species hereafter enu- merated.

The following is a tabularview of the Marocco flora, showing :- 1. The whole number of species belonging toeach Natural Order found in Marocco; 2. The number of these which are cosmo. politan or extend in the Old World beyond the Mediterranean region ; 8. Species of the Mediterranean region including Macaro- nesia ; 4. Mediterranean excluding Macaronesia ; 5. Confined to Western Mediterranean region excluding Macaronesia; 6. Species

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Taken as a whole, the figures in the preceding Table show very distinctly that the Marocco flora is altogether a portion of that great Mediterranean flora which, with local peculiarities, extends from the Indus to the Atlantic Islands. Excluding all the species widely spread beyond those limits either through the tropics or the temperate zone, Ke hare remaining 1160 species, of which 820 are common to some considerable portions of the Mediterranean region. Of the remaining 340 species about one half, or 165, are peculiar t o Marocco. Next come 96 common to Spain and Marocco, nearly all of these being, as far as we know, confined to the neighbourhood of Tangier and Tetuan. A much smaller proportion, only 64, are common to Algeria and Maroccn,

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and only 15 species are confined to the Macaronesian Islands, under which name I include Madeira along with the Canary

This proportion will doubtless be somewhat increased when we know more of the coast vegetation between Agadir and Wadnoun ; but the figures tend t o show that the separation of those islands must de,te from a period even geologically speaking remote.

With a view to exhibit further the characteristics of the Marocco flora it may be convenient to give a summary of the results of the foregoing Table, showing the absolute number of species or subspecies of each of the principal Natural Orders, and the percentage which they bear t o the total number of Pha- nerogamic species, this being 1627.

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Dicotyledones . . . . . . . . 1338 Monocotyledones . . . . . . 289 Composits . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Leguminosa . . . . . . . . . . 189 Graminere . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Vmbelliferz . . . . . . . . . . 86 Labiata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Crucifers . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Scrophularinea . . . . . . . . 61 Liliacea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Boraginea . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Rannnculaces . . . . . . . . 33 Rubiaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Cistines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Cyperaces . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Euphorbiaceae . . . . . . . . 24

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It will be seen that the proportion of Composits, Leguminosa, and Liliacese is unusually large, whilst that of Gramines and Ranunculaceaz is exceptionally small. Still more characteristic of the Marocco flora is the small proportion borne by some natu- ral orders that usually take a prominent place among the vege- table population in mountain countries in the north temperate zone. Thus we have of Rosacea but 16 species, of Saxifrages 5 npecies, of Primulaces '7 species, of Gentianes 8 species, and of

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cyperacea only 25 species ; and very few of these belong to sub- alpine or alpine types.

In my opinion, however, the general numerical results obtained from tabular statements, such as those I have already given, are very likely to mislead unless critically controlled. The bounda- ries of states are determined by historical accidents, and, t o a slight extent only, by physical geography j and it often happens that in general summaries the characteristics of what form natu- ral divisions of the earth’s surface are masked by these being thrown in along with others wherein different conditions predo- minate.

Bearing in mind that the eatire of Marocco in a botanical sense forms part of the Mediterranean region, it includes within its boundaries several provinces, partly corresponding t o geogra- phical limits, which exhibit well-marked features, and are distin- guished by a considerable number of species not common to other provinces.

Speaking broadly, and excluding the wide-spread species, which belong to two types-1st) those widely spread through the cooler temperate zone, either Old World or extending to the New World, and, 2nd, tropical species which extend more or less widely into the warmer temperate regions-there are within the Marocco territory five elements, of which four correspond more or less closely to geographical limits.

The Mediterranean flora, including within that term species confined to that region and widely spread throughout it, forms what may be considered as the substratum extending throughout the whole territory, excepting only the higher range of the Great Atlas. Overlying, SO to say, this substratum, we find in the northern extremity of Marocco a strong infusion of another element, which is now generally denominated the Peninsular flora. This is recognizable, even to the unscientific observer, by the number of conspicuous flowering shrubs, including, along with more wide-spread species of those genera, several showy species of Gistus and Erica, with numerous herbaceous plants, such as the curious Drosophyllum Zusitanicum. We do not know the limits of this province along the coast between Tetuan and the Mgerian frontier ; but it does not seem to extend more than 30 Or 40 miles southward from Tangier and Cape Spartel, and in point of fact nearly all the 96 species set down as common exc’usivelY to SFain and Marocco have been found in the neigh-

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bourhood of Tangier and Tetuan, and are not seen in the central or southern provinces of Marocco.

The Algerian flora, so far as it offers special characteristics to distinguish it from the general Mediterranean type, owes its in- dividuality mainly to species endemic in the mountain region of the Lesser Atlas, or on the high plateaux that present such a pecu- liar feature in the geography of Southern Algeria.

It is highly probable that most of these extend into Eastern and Central Marocco ; but i n the limited region kno-irn to us these cha- racteristic species of the Algerian flora are for the most payt wanting, and eTen in the Great Atlas but a small number of them have yet been seen.

Although several of the species characteristic of the Desert flora extend beyond their original boundary, and a few of them are found even in the south-east of Spain, there are fen. better- marked botanical provinces than that of the desert regions of WesternAsia and Northern Africa. Considering thewide portion of the earth's surface occupied by the hot stony or sandy plains that extend with uniniportantinterruptions nearly from the banks of the Lower Indus to the Atlantic coast of Southern Marocco, the gene- ral uniformity of its scanty vegetable population is a fact very re- markable in botanical geography. Unfortunately our knowledge of the true desert-region of Southern Marocco, namely that which extends along the Southern side of the Great Atlas chain, is ex- tremely limited ; but when the collections recently received by M. Cosson €rom his collector are fully enumerated, it will be seen that many species of this peculiar type extend to within a few leagues of the Atlantic coast. But even in the low country, on the northern side of the Great Atlas, traversed by us there are some considerable tracts closely approximating in their physical conditions to the northern skirts of the Sahara. Many of the cliaracteristic desert.species there reappear, although they are separated by lofty mountain-ranges from what may be considered their natural home.

The least-important element that goes to make up the Marocco flora, if we measure it by the number of representative species, but in some respects one of the most interesting, is that revealed by the presence of a small number of species common to the Ma- roecan and the Maearonesian" floras. Of these all but one are

* I hare Tentured to use the name Macaronesia in a rather wider sense than soiue preceding xntern inclnding niider i t BIndeirn Fit11 its dependent islets

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Canary-Island species, the remaining one being comnion only to Madeira and Western Marocco. It is true that the short list of fifteen species might be somewhat extended if we added certain species peculiar to Marocco but closely allied to Canary-Islaud endemic species. Such a list would include three cactoid Euphor- bias, a Sonchus (X. acidus, nearly allied to S. pinfiatus), a Senecio of the Kleinia group, and Monarcthes atlantica, nearly allied to its Canary-Island congeners.

It must be remarked, however, that the types to which these last- mentioned species belong are rather generally West-African than specially Macaronesian, as all are common to the Cape de Verde Islands, if not to a wider region. Of the fifteen Macaronesian species found in the coast region of South Marocco, I think it is safe to say that the facts rather tend to show the accidental dif- fusion of a few Macaronesian species on the adjacent coast of Africa than to indicate the existence of a direct connexion be- tween the continent and those islands within a geological period at all recent.

There remains to be considered the flora of the Great Atlas, the only one of the constituent portions of the general Marocco flora that seems to be confined within the boundaries of the ein- pire. I am tempted to enter into some detail in discussing this part of my subject ; but when I recollect what a large mass of additional unpublished matter is already in the possession of my friend M. Cosson, I feel that it would be unsatisfactory to attempt any such detailed discussion at the present time; and I hope to be able to resume the subject to greater advantage on a future occasion.

I n the mean time it is allowable to point out some character- istic features of the Great-Atlas flora, as far as this is known to me from our collections. Dividing the mountain region. into two zones, an upper and a lower one, aud fiiiug the limit betncen them at about 1500 metres above the sea-level, I find in each of these a coiisiderable nuiiiber of endemic species, ainouuting in regard t o the uppcr zone to about one fourth of tho \Thole number of species. But there is little indication of that multiplication of specific forms that is so characteristic of the niouutain-floras of

along wit11 tlie Ca.iiary-1slniid ucliipelago. Tliongli tlie Dora of Macleirn be ]nore liiriileil tliaii thnt of tlie Canzriej. it is iiupossible to regard it :IS otlier than a dctncIict~ i> ic iubw of tiiitt groicp.

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Southern Spain, Greece, and Asia Minor. On the arenaceous and porphyritic rocks of the Ait Mesan valley we found to a great ex- tent the same endemic species afterwards gathered on the schistose and calcareous rocks of Djebel Tezah, at least 30 miles distant.

Another fact worth noticing is, that, among a considerable num- ber of new specific forms, no new generic type has yet been found in the Great Atlas.

But in my opinion the most singular point about the Great- Atlas flora is the presence of a large number of the common species of Central Xurope, both annual and perennial, coupled with the fact that many of these are not species that have proved their power of adapting themselves to different climatal condi- tions, and that many of them have no nearer habitat than the mountains of Central or Southern Spain, while others must be sought at a still greater distance.

The conclusion to which I am led by a consideration of the facts is the same that I have derived from rather long observation of the mountain-vegetation of Central and Southern Europe-nameiy, that it is impossible to explain the facts without admitting that a large portion of our present flora is relatively very ancient, and that the species had assumed their present characters a t least as early as the Miocene epoch.

I ought not to omit mentioning that two years after our visit two German naturalists, MM. Rein and Fritsch, were able to make a short expedition in the Great Atlas, nearly following our footsteps. They were not exclusively engaged in collecting plants ; but they have deposited a t Kew specimens of most, if not all, the plants found by them. Having been able to examine these, I have enumerated their Ppecimezls in the following catalogue.

I n determining the specimens of our collections I have been materially assisted, in regard to the Orchideze, by my friend Prof. H. G. Reichenbach. The friendly aid and assistance of Professor Oliver and Mr. J. G. Baker have been frequently invoked by me ; and t o the latter I am especially indebted for his thorough know- ledge of the Liliacea and Amaryllides of the Mediterranean region, which he kindly contributed for my benefit. To Mr. Bentbarn, it is needless t o say that in any case of doubt o r diffi- culty I never applied in vain. The resources of his unequdled kllomledge are always at the service of the younger and less-gifted 1torIrers in tlie field of science ; and I cannot better close than by expressiiig t,he sense of affectionate regard n itli w h k h 1 atkno\\-- ledge his puiclanw

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ENUMERATIO GEKERUM AC SPECIERUM.

PRBMONEND A.

Ordines naturales plantarum secundum normam Cmdolleanam a celebb. Bentham et Hooker reforinatam enumeravi ; generum definitiones a Bentham et Hooker in opere classico ‘ Geners Plantarum ’ stabilitas quatenu8 profuerunt fere semper secutus sum.

Nomina trivialia specierum antiquiora, nisi plane erronea, semper pratuli. Auctorem speciei, qui primus eam ab affinibus distinxit et publici juris fecit, esse duxi, et prius citavi. Auctores czeteros parce citavi, opus tamen cyclopadicum Candolleanmn ‘ Prodromus Systematis Universalis,’ necnon Kunthiauum ‘ Enu- meratio Plantarum,’ semper adduxi.

Formas istas plantarum a speciebus affinibus notis evidentibus et satis stabilibus dignoscendas cujus tamen differentia tales sint u t una pro alterius prole habenda esse videatur, sicut subspecies enumeravi, et typis diversis eorum nomina a csteris distinxi.

Territorium Imperii Maroccani in regiones quinque limitibus certis nondum definitas distinxi : scilicet 1. Marocco septentrio- nalis-ditionem Tingitanam et Tetuanensem necnom regionem litoralem inter hanc et fines Algerienses ainplectens ; 2. Marocco occidentalis-vel regio litoralis et sublitoralis Atlantica, ab urbi El Araisch usque Agadir ; 3. Marocco centralis, botanicis fere ignotus, inter zonam sublitoralem e t convallern fluminis Moulouya ; 4. Marocco orientalis, regio vix nota inter flumen Moulouya e t fines Algerienses ; 5. Marocco meridionalis, quo comprehen- ditur catena centralis Atlantis Majoris et regio inferior a montium

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radicibus usque flumen Oum er bia. His addenda erit regio vasta desertorum, Sahara Maroccana dicta, ab Atlante Majore meridiem versus se protendens, qua tamen species nullas operi nostro sub- ministravit.

Locorum natalium plantarum quibus adest signum (!) testis Idem signum, dum sequitur nomina abbreviata, plantas

Horum sequitur brevis ipse sum. indicat quarum specimina vidi et scrutavi. elenchus :

Webb. Herb.-Philippus Barker Webb. Stirpes circa Tingi- dem e t Tetuan anno 1827 lects, in Herbario Florentino as, servata.

Sulzm. Exsicc.-Salzmaun. P lan ts in ditione Tingitana anno 1825 lects quarum series venales dua in Herbsrio Kewensi asservant ur.

Lowe.--R. T. Lowe. P lan ts in agro Mogadorensi anno 1859 lects, quarum catalogurn in Actis SOC. Linnsans Londinensis edidit. Harum exemplaria fere omnium in Herbario Kewensi exstant.

Xchsb. spec.-Plants olim a Schousboe lectae, ex ejus lierbario duplicats, a eel. Cosson benevole communicnts.

Bululzsa spec.-Plants a el. Balansa anno 1867 lecta, quarum perpaucs venales in Herbario Kewensi vel in cateris herbariis inveniunt ur .

J . D. H.-Plants quas in itinere Maroccano amicissimus Eques Josephus Dalton Hooker solus legit.

Coll. Indig.-Planta mense M j o 1871 a duobus indigenis in ditione Agadir lecta, quarum exemplaria in herbario nleo ac in Kewensi extant.

R. et Ei..-Plants a ell. Rein et Fritsch anno 1873 lectz, qlla- rum specimina in Herbario Kewensi conservant up.

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R A N U N C U L A C E B (Jzcss. Oen. 231).

CLEMATIS (L. Gen. 696). C. FLAMMULA (L., DC. Pr. i. 2j. Mar. sept.-Tanger. (Salzm. sp. in herb. nost.) ! Tetuan (1851 j ! Mar. merid.-Ourika ! Amsmiz ! Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea exclusa Macaronesia.

C. CIRRHOSA (L, DC. Pr. i. 9). Mar. sept.-Tanger (SuZzm. Exsicc.) ! (BZuckmore) ! Mar. owid.-Mogador (Lowe) ! Mar. merid.-Visa pr. Ourika! Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea calidior (exclusa Macaronesia).

C. Balearica (Rich , Journ. Phys. 1779, 127 ; DC. Prod. i. 9),= C. polymorpha (Viw. Fl. Cors. p. 9), inclusa fornia foliis minus profunde divisis C. semitriloba (Lug. Cat. Matr. 17).

Mar. occid.-Agadir (COX Indig. 1871) ! Ar. Geog. Insul. Mediterraneae (Baleares, Corsica, Sicilia). Narocco

occidentalis. A plerisque botanicis cum praecedente conjuucta, sed formae intermediae

vix inveniendze. Confer Boissier in FI. Or. i. 2. Mihi videtur me- lius ad subspeciem reducenda. Specimina ex monte supra Agadir a cel. Cosson benevole communicata ad var. seu lusum C. semitrilobam pertinent.

THALICTRUM (L. Gen. 697). T. GLAUCUM (Desf. Cut. H . Par. ed. 2, p. 126; DC. Pr. i. 15). Mar. merid.-Mesfioua ! Ar. Geog. Penins. Iberica. Africa boreali-occidentalis. In Italia erronee

indicatum.

ANENONE (L. Gen. 694.). A. pALMATA (L., DC. Pr. i. 19). bfar. sept.-Tanger, in monte Djebel Kebir ! Tetuan, in monte Beni

Hosmar, usque 400 m. ! Ar. Geog. Penins. Iberica. Africa boreali-occidentalis.

ADONIS (L. Ben. 698). A. AUTUMKALIS(L. , DC. Pr. i. 23). Mar. sept.-Tanger ! ( S U Z Z ~ . E Z S ~ C C . ) ! Mar. merid.-Prov. Haha ! Ar. Geog. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea omnis (exclusa Macaro-

Specimina nostra carpellorum juniorum rostro uncinato referunt A . nesia).

304 ME. J. BALL’S SPICILEOIUM FLORB MAROCCANE.

bceticam (Coss. Not. Crit. Plant. d’Esp. ii. 25), qua mihi videtur var. A . autumnalis.

ADONIS m m i v A L I s (L . , DC. Pr. i. 24). Mar. merid.-Shedma ! Amsmiz ! Sektana! Ar. Geog. Europa media (vix indigeua?).

Mont. Himalaya. Variat in reg. nostra petalis sanguineis vel citrinis.

A. MICROCARPA (UC. Syst. i. 223, DC. Pr. i. 24),=A. Cupamana,

Mar. merid.-Sektana ! A f . Geog. Penins. Iberica ; Sicilia. Afr. borealis. Macaronesia. Petala in. spec. nostris citrina.

- -,var. A. DENTATA=A. dentata (Del. Fl. Eg. Il l . 17; DC. Pr.

;Mar. merid.-Shesbaoua ! Ar. Geog. Syria ; Arabia ; Persia. Africa borealis in reg. Saharensi. In hoc geuere species plurirnse extricatu difficillimae et forsan non satis

Regio Mediterranea (Eu- ropa, Oriens, Africa borealis).

Guss. Syn. Fl. Sic. ii. 36),=A. intermedia (Webb, Phyt. Can. i. 12).

i. 24).

constantes.

RANUNGULUS ( L . Qen. 699). R. AQUATILIS (L., DC. Pr. i. 26). Mar. sept.-Tanger ! Inter Tetnan et Ceuta ! Mar. merid.-Amsmiz ! Ar. Geog. In reg. temperata et frigida hemisph. borealis (Europa, Asia,

Africa, Macaronesia, et America). Rarius occurrit in Asia subtropica.

R. Baudotii (Godr. Monog. p. 14, fig. 4),=Batrachium marinum (Fr. Nov. R. Suec. Mant. iii. 51).

Inter specimina nostra Tiugitana video examplaria quae verisimiliter huc spectant. Habuerim pro varietate speciei polymorpba: (R. aqua- tilis) sed auctoritate tantorum virorum devinctus hanc in numerum subspecicrum enumerare mahi.

AT. Geog. Gallia; Insul. Britannic=. Batavia. Ditio Tingitana.

R. FICARIA (L, B. e t H . Gen. PI. i. 6.),=Ficaria ranunculoides ( M ~ c h .

Mar. sept.-Inter Tanger et Tetuan ! I n monte Beni Hosmar prope

Ar. Geog. Europa borealis et media et Mediterranea. Marocco septen-

__ -- , var. INTERMEDIC‘S, nob. Mar. sept.-In monte Djebel Kebir prope Tanger ! R. caltlmfolius (Jordan, Ohs. vi. 2 j, =Ficaria calthacfolia (IZeich. FI. EZC. ii. T18), a plnnta Linnaeana statnra et floribus duplo majori- bus facile dignoscendas, foliis profuntic cortlatis, lobis iricumbentibus

Ilfeth. 215 ; DC. Pr. i. 44).

Tetuan !

trionalis .

MR. J. BALL’S SPIOILEQIUN FLORZ MARI~CCANB. 305

adeo ut primo intuitu peltata videntur, nobis non obvia fuit in itinere Maroccano. Varietas supra memorata gaudet floribus aliquid majori- bus, foliis paullo profundius cordatis, sed typo Linnaeano multo propior est quam R. culthEfolio, Jord.

Qnoad sciam R. Ficaria, L., hucusque extra territorium Europae non citatur.

RANUNCULUS BULLATUS (L., DC. Pr. i. 27). Mar. sept.-Tanger ! folia tantum visa. Mar. occid.-Mogador (Brouss. sec. Boissier). Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea australior e Creta usque in Lusitaniam. R. CHAZROPHYLLOS (.L., DC. Pr. i. 27), var. y FLABELLATUS, DC.

2. cit. =R. flabellatiis (Desf. FZ. AtZ. i. 438, tab. 114). Mar. sept.-Valde frequens in regione collina circa Tanger ! et Tetuan !

et in monte Beni Hosmar, usque 800 m. ! Variat caule simplici vel ramoso (usque 12-floro), foliis radicalibus integris ternatis vel biternatis.

Ar. Geog. Species per regionem Mediterraneam (exclusa Macaronesia) et montes Himalaya diffusa.

R. leucothrix (Ball, Journ. Bot. 1873, 296). Inter priorem et R. oxyspermum (Steph. in Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 1328, DC.

Pr. i. 28) collocandus; R. chmophyllo propior et sicut subspecies enu- merandus. Differt imprimis grumis cylindricis, nee ovatis, indumento ex pilis longis villosis inferne patulis superne adpressis, nec brevi ad- presso sericeo, pedicellis fructiferis rigidioribus subincrassatis, foliorum tripartitorum segment0 medio longiore saepe tripartito calyce fruc- tifero persistente reflexo.

Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis (Distr. Rerava) circ. 1000 m. ! Petala subemarcida quam in typo minora ; carpella immatura fere

A R. chrerophyllo facie valde diversus, et forsan pro specie omnino dis- Calyx sub anthesi

omnia abortiva.

tincta babuerim, si specimiua meliora adfuissent. reflexus est in hoc genere nota specifica gravis momenti.

R. SPICATUS (Desf. FZ. AtE, i. 438, tab. 1 1 5 ; DC. Pr. i. 29). Mar. sept.-In monte Beni Hosmar prope Tetuan circ. 900 m. ! Ar. Geog. Africa borealis. In speciminibus nostris spica fructifera quam in spec. Algeriensibus

-- , var. R. BLEPHARICARPOS,=R. blepharicarpos (Boiss. El. 5 ) . Mar. merid.-In regime subalpina Atlantis Najoris, Djebel Tezah circ.

Ar. Geoy. Peninsula Iberica. i\farocco meridionalis. Speciminibus

R. G R A M I N E P S ( T J . , D C . P r . i . 3 2 ) . Mar. sqit.--Tn lllonte I h i FTosmxr p o l x Tetuan circ. 1000 m. !

Lusitania ?

paullo brevior.

2600 m. !

Nevadensibns a nobis lectis omnino conformis.

306 MR. J. BALL'S BPICILEOIUM FLORB MAROCCANAC.

Geog. Europa occidentalis et australis, nullibi frequens. Marocco septentrionalis. Extra Europam non prius detectus ?

RANUNCULUS ATLANTICUS (Ball, Journ. Bot. 1873, p. 296). Subspecies R. acris (L., DC. Pr. i. 36) sed formze intermediae nondum

observatae ? Inter subspecies et varietates R. acris distinguitur imprimis statura

maxima 3-5-pedali, corolla (pro grege) maxima, rhizomate crass0 horizontali fibras validas emittente, foliis magnis pentagonis profunde 3- vel 5fidis, segmentis incisis, indumento sericeo-piloso adpresso, prsesertim in foliorum pagina inferiore (folia igitur bicoloria). Carpella pama nnmerosa rostrata, rostro subrecto longiusculo.

&r. merid.-Frequens in convallibus septentrionalibus Atlantis Majoris -Urika ! Reraya ! Ait Mesan ! Amsmiz ! a 1000 m. ad 1900 m.

Huic proximus est R. Friesianus, Jord. Obs. vi. p. 17,= R. nemorivagus, Jord. Diagn. i. p. 74.

In regione Mediterranea R. acris est fere semper planta montana, et vix in zonam olivetorum se protendit. R. atlanticus noster non fugit loca calidiora.

R. PALUSTRIS (L., DC. Pr. i. 41), var. MACROPHYLLUS,= R. macro- phyllus (DesJ FZ. Atl. i. 437),=R. villosus (Salzm. Bmicc.non DC.).

Mar. sept.-Tanger ! (Salem. Emicc.) ! Prope Cap. Spartel ! Tetuan 1851 ! In monte Beni Hosmar !

Ar. Geog. Africa borealis. Formae seu varietates arcte affines proveniunt in Lusitania (Brot. F1. Lus. sub R. adscendente), in Hispania (Boios. Voy.), in Sardinia (Moris. Fl. Sard.), in Corsica (DC. fl. fr. sub R. corsieo) et in Oriente (Boiss. Fl. Or.).

Planta Pontanesiana differt ab orientali foliis minus profunde divisis, pedunculis fructiferis crassioribus. h b his paululum differt planta Europae australis foliorum lobo medio longiore, rostro apice subrecur- vato.

R. procerus (Moris, Fl. Sard. i. 45 ; Icon. tab. 2 ) ? Mar. sept.--Tanger (Webb Herb.) ! Ar. Geog. Sardinia. Ager Tingitanus. A R. palustri, cui simillimus, differt carpellis etiam jnnioribus tubercu-

Dc differentia specifica dubitavit ipse beatus Moris ; loso-setigeris. nobis videtur ad suhspeciem reducendus.

R. BULBOSUS (I,., DC. Prod. i. 41), var. NEAPOLITANUS,=R. Nea-

Mar. merid.-In regione media Atlantis Najoris ; in convalle Amsmiz

Ar. Geog. Italia ; Sicilia? ; Corsica ; Hispania ( B o ~ g . n. d'E~p. no.

politanus (Ten. SyZZ. p. 272).

circ. 1500 m. ! in monte Djebcl Tezah usque 2000 m. !

2249). Oriens (Boiss. R. Or.) . Marocro meritlionalis.

MR. J. BALL’S SPTCILEGIIUM FLORE MAROCCAN&. 307

A typo facile dignoscitur rhizomate parum incrassato fibras plurimas crassas edente, sed pace cel. Boissier carpella habet R. bulbosi, rostris brevissimis plus minusve arcuatis.

Confer notulam MS. beati J. Gay, et frustulum ex exemplari authentice Tenoreano herb. Desfontaines, in Herb. Kew conservata. Meo sensu R. neapolitanus est omniuo forma meridionalis R. bulbosi et verisimiliter per totam regionem Mediterraneam diffusus. -- , V ~ ~ . ? G I G A N T E U S , nob. 5-pedalis et ultra; rhizoma in-

crassatum ; foliorum radicalium petioli 2-pedales ; folia pinnatipar- tita, segmenta trisecta, varie incisa ; flores R. bulbosi. Carpella desunt.

Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis secus torrentem Ourika ! R. rhleadifolius (DC. Syst. i. 284) ex descript. celeb. auctoris nostrae

plantse haud absimilis, sed ex icone in Delessert Icon. i. 40, hic mihi videtur forma R.philonotidis, Retz, seu R. trilobi, Desf.; sed ob defec- tum carpellorum res incerta manet. Planta nostra est fere certe R. bulbosi forma insignis.

RAKUNCULUS PHILONOTIS (Retz, Obs. vi. 3 ; DC. Pr. i. 41), var.

Mar. sept.-Tanger ! Ar. Geog. Hinc inde in regione Mediterranea ? R.trilobus (Desf. Fl. Atl. i. 437, tab. 113; DC. Pr. i. 42). Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Eesicc.) ! (Webb. herb.) !

Mar. merid.--Sektana ! Ar. Geoy. Regio omnis Mediterranea (inclusa Macaronesia). Pace auctorum celebb. qui R. triloburn pro specie probe distincta enu-

merarunt hic mihi mera forma R. philonotis videtur, et nisi obstitisset auctoritas majorum pro varietate potius quam pro sabspecie habuerim. Notse diagnostica: ex carpellis desumptse non gravis momenti videntur. In R. philonoti vuigari carpella ostendunt tuhercula circa marginem concentrice disposita, sed hsec non raro omnino desunt. In R. trilobo tubercula crebriora sunt sed secundum eandcm normam distribuun- tur. Varietas nostra supra memorata, q u a verisimiliter est R. inter- medius, Poir., habitu et corolla est R. philonotis, sed glabritie et car- pellis propins accedit R. trilobo.

R. ARVEASIS (L., DC. Pr. i. 41). Mar. merid.--In regione inferiore et media Atlantis Najoris ; in convalle

Ait Mesan circ. 1200 m. ! et usque 2200 in ! Ar. Geog. Europa media, Asia borealis (Gmel.). Regio Mediterranea

omnis. Montes Himalaya.

INTERMEDIUS, nob.=R. iutermedius (Poir. Dict. vi. 116) 1

Tetuan secus ripas fluminis (1851) !

R. M U R I C A T U S (L. , D c . Pr. i . 42). Mar. sept.-Tangcr ! (Salan. Ersicc.) ! ( ICebb. herb.) ! Propc Cap.

Spartel !

308 MIL J. BALL’S SPICILEGIUM FLOR& MAROCC4N;E.

Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore et media Atlantis Majoris. Rerays

Ar. Geog. . Regio Mediterranea omnis. India boreali-occidentalis.

RANUNCULUS PARVIFLORUS (L., DC. Pr. i. 42). Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Ezsicc.] ! Vidimus in sepibns haud procul

a Tanger! et in dumosis montis Djebel Kebir! Mar. merid.-In reg. inferiora Atlantis Majoris. distr. Reraya ! Ex prov.

Mtouga specimina nana attulerunt R. et Fr. Ar. Geog. Europa occidentalis ex Hibernia ad fretum Herculis.. Eu-

ropa australis, ager Byzantinus. -4frica boreali-occidentalis. Macaro- nesia. America borealis.

R. OPHIOGLOSSIFOLIUS (Vill. Dauph. iv. 732, tali. 49; DC. Pr. i. 43). N.B. In exemplari nostro operis Villarsii anno 1789 inipressi inventum

Mar. sept.-In uliginosis pr. Tanger ! (Salzrn. Ezsicc.) Ar. Geog. Europa occidentalis ex Sarnia ad Lusitaniam. Regio omnis

Mediterranea. Formae affines in Amedca horeali ( R . pusiltus, Poir.), et in America meridionali (R. bonariensis, Poir.).

In regione subalpina Atlantis Majoris (in convalle Ait Mesan circ. 2550 m. loco frigid0 uliginoso) invenimus Ranunculurn nondum florentem, rhizomate brevi recto, fibris validis elongatis (6-10-pol- licaribus) praeditum. Folia radicalia sunt glabra, pinnatim trisecta, lobis cnneato-ovatis, in pagina superiore albo variegata. Eandem plantam florentem ex reg. superiore Atlantis anno 1873 attulerunt cll. Rein et Fritsch. In hac scapus solitarius superne adpresso- pilosus, folium unicum subsimplex gerens, petala lutea medise magnit., carpella (nimis immatura) rostrata, rostro spiraliter recurvo.

Est verisimiliter nova species e grege R. montani, W., et proxinia R. procumbenti (Boiss., Ann. Sc. R’at., et P1. Or. i. 51).

circ. 1100 m. ! Amsmiz ! Djebel Tezah usque 1750 m. !

Smerica borealis et Meridionalis (vix indigenus ?) .

111. 731.

NIGELLA (L. Gen. G85).

N. ARVENSIS (L., nc. Pr. i. 49). Mar. merid.-Kin Tarsil, prov. Rltouga ! Ar. Geog. Europa media. Regio Alediterranea (exclusa Nararonesia). .- - , vaP. COSSONIANA, nob. = N. hispsnica, var. parviflora (coss.

Nar. occid.-Prope RIogidor ! et Agadir (Coll. Indig. 1871) ! Mar. merid.-Prov. Shedma pluribus locis ! Prov. Mtonga (R . et Fr.

Ar. Geog. Gallia australis. IIispania. Africa borealis. Cel. Boiss. (in F1. Or. i. 66) sub N . arvensi plurimas sic diet. snecies

adunavit et sicut wrietates descyipsit ; sril. hi. f a h e m d a t a , Gris. Spic., N . a s p r f l , C . Korh., N . .feniculacm, nC.. N . dirariraf(t, Reauprr

PI. Crit. 49).

spec.) !

XR. .I. U.kLL'8 SPICTLEGIU1I F L O R S MAROCCbNB:.

in DC. Syst., N. cretensis, Stev., N. aristata, Sibth. et Sm., revera vix pro varietatihus habenda sunt. N. arvensis, L., est enim species summopere ludibunda, per totam regionem &lediterranearn (exclusa Macaronesis) late diffuse, et rarius in\~enies specimen typo unius alteriusve form= descripta: omnino conreniens.

Gel. Cosson loc. cit. plantam nostram il N. arcemi clistiniit et pro varie- tate AT: ITispnicce SUE vinriicavit. Sed rir oculatissimus limites frustra quiesivit, tlnm natura iiivicta obstnt. Forma et color seldorum, ratio inter se labiorum petali, carpella c s t w pll.is miniisre glanduloso- rngosa, horuni rostra erecta, vel patentia, re1 recurra, sunt omnes not% variabiles, sicut jam me docuerunt sliecirnina plurirna &roc- cana in vivo obserrata. Nec valet nota diapostica a ell. Gr. et Go(%. (Fl. Fr. i. 45, 46) proposita. In AT. urvensi nerri laterales carpelli basin usque rarius prodncti ; dum in N . Hispaiiicu rostrum semper trinerve est, nervi in dorso carpelli baud raro proctucti.

N . H i p m i c a a, Cosson, Z.C., in Hispailia Gaditana haud infrequens (Bonrgeau, PI. d'Esp. 1849, No. 13, ct a me olim prope Vejer et pr. Zahara iecta), statura maxima, sepalis illis N . arvensis 2-3ve major- ibus, basi vix ;ittenuatis, pro subspecie habenda videtur. Haec in ditione Maroccana nondum detecta fuit. Specimina nostra ex Bgadir et prope Mogador lecta gaudent floribus quam in N. arvmsi typica paullo majoribus. H a c forma prope Mogador a Balansa lecta sistit verisimiliter N . Hispanicam, var. intermedium (Coss., Index in Bull. SOC. Bot. Fr.).

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NIGELLA DAMASCEWA (L., DC. Pr. i. 49), forma spontanea floribus minoribus = N. Bourgaei, Jord. pug.

Mar. sept.-Tetuan (Webb. herb.) ! Mar. occid.-Agadir (CoZZ. Indig. 1871) ! Mar. merid. In prov. Shedma ! e t Haha ( J . D. H . ) ! Ar. Geog. Regio Xediterranea occidentalis. Europa. Afr. borealis. Ma-

In Oriente vix indigena ? caronesia.

AQGILEGIA ( L . Gea. 684). A. VULGARIS (L., DC. Pr . i. 50) Tar.? Mar. merid.-In monte Djebel Tezah circ. 1800 In. legit J . D. H . Ar. Geog. Europa borealis (excl. arctica), et media, et australis (in um-

brosis montanis). Nacaronesia. In Asia temperata et in mont. Hi- malaya.

Specimina nostra gaudent foliis radicalibus triternatis, foliolis profunde incisis, omnibus glabres- centibus, petiolis longis, caule bipedali snperne ramoso, floribus miuo-

' ribus viridi-flavescentibus. Tota planta (foliis exceptis) pube brevi non viscosa pradita. Carpella desunt. Experientia docebit an varietas sit, vel snbspecies nomine novo salutanda.

Form= affines in America boreali. Stirps polymorpha et miro modo ludibunda.

310 MR. J. BALL'S SPICILEGIUN FLORX MAROCCANE.

DELPHINIUU (L. Gen. 681).

D. AJACIS (L., DC. Pr. i. 61). Mar. merid.-Mesfioua ! Ar. Geog. Europa meridionalis, Macaronesia (an indigenum 2 ) . Legi specimen unieum valde incompletum, et ideo minus certum. D. HALTERATUM (Sibth. et Sm. Fl. Gr. vi. tab. 107; Boiss. F?. Or. i.

Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Bzs. sub D.junceo) ! (Webb. herb.) ! Mar. occid-Agadir (Coll. Indig. 1971) ! Mar. merid.-Sat frequens in rcgione inferiore. Prov. Haba ! Shedma !

Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea. Europa. Africa borealis. Forme affi-

-~ , var. CARDIOPETALUM, = D. cardiopetalum (DC. Syst. i.

Mar. sept.-Tanger ! Tetuan (anno 1851)! Porma elata, racemo laxo,

Mar. occid.-In monte Djebel IIadid ! prope Bin el Hadjar ! Ar. Geog. Gallia ; Hispania. Africa borealis. -- , var. MACROPETALUM, = D. macropetalum (DC. Syst. i.

Mar. occid.-Frequens in arenosis p o p e Mogador ! ubi legerunt etiam

dr. Geog. Hucusque nonnisi pr. Mogador detectum. Primo aspectu a D. halterato et formis affinibus differt floribus duplo

majoribus, pedunculis longioribus, foliorum segmentis latioribus. Caracteres stabiles frustra quasivi dum h a nota omnes variabiles sunt. Vix aut ne vix quidem a D. obcordato, DC. Syst. Nat. i. 350, ex speci- mine manco in ' Barbaria ' lecto a cl. Durand descripto, diversum est.

Nibil dubito quin Delphinia ornnia Q DeZphineZlnrn, DC., regionis Medi- terranee (esclusis orientalibus et D. Baiansre) cum D. peregrino, L., nexu genetic0 colligari, et pro subspeciebus vel varietatibus enumeranda esse. D. halteraturn dignoscitur petalorum lateralium lamina orbicu- lari basi rotundata vel leviter obcordata. D. junceum (DC. F1. Fr. v. 364, et Prod. i. 52) habet laminam ellipticam in unguem attenuatam. Foliorum forma, indumentum, ratio longitudinis calcaris et sepalorum nota sunt omnino variabiles. Formae arcte atfines in tota regione Mediterranea (exclusa Macaronesia) vulgares sunt.

Forsan subspecies D. Balanse (Boiss. et

In convalle Kit In monte Djebel Tezah 2300-

Sirpem nondum florentem inceytse sedis inter Delphinia (suadente cl.

86, et forsan DC. Pr. i. 53) .

3Ttnug.a !

nes in Oriente.

347).

foliis rigidis.

350).

Broussonet, Schousboe, Lowe, et Balansa.

DELPHINIUM, sp. nov.?

Mar. merid.-In regione snbalpina Atlantis Majoris. Reut. Diagn. PI. Or., ser. 2, v. 12) ?

Mesan supra Arround ad 2400 m. ! 2500 m, !

Baker) retuli ; accuratius visa affinis D. Balanse mihi videtur, sed pluribus notis differt. Radix perennis lignosa, plerumque obliqua ; canles florigeri e basi procumbente adscendentes ; folia radicalia et inferiora palmatim (nec pinnatim) partita, caulina magis divisa sub- hiternata; indumentum D. Balansce.

DELPHINIUM PENTAGYNUM ( L a m . Dict. ii. 2F1; DC. Pr. i. 54). Mar. occid.-In monte Djebel Hadid haud procul a Mogador. R. et Fr.

spec. in Herb. Kew. ! Ar. Geop. Peninsula Iberica. Africa borealis. Sicilia = D. emargina..

tum (Prcsl, Bert. F1. It. v . 419). Pace beati Bcrtoloni p1:rnta Algeriensis (Desf. FI. Atl. i. 427, tab. 111)

est certe lion diversa a stirpe Calpensi qure lllaroccanis conformis. Specirnina lusitanica non vidi, sed Lam. 1. c . plantam lusitanicam sub oculis habuit, et eandeni speciem descripsit (confer Brotero, F1. Lus. ii. 304) quam pro D. emarginato, Psl. habuit auctor F1. Italic=, Not= diagnostic= mihi videntur incerta: et variabiles.

B B R B E I ~ I D E Z (Vent. TabE. iii. 83).

B. CRETICA (L., DC. Pi-. i. 106), var. = B. Hispanica (B . et R.

Mar. merid.-In regione subalpina Atlantis Rlajoris. In monte Djebel Tezah (J . D . H. ) !

AT. Geog. Hispania. Africa boreali-occidentalis. Forma arcte affinis in Oriente et in insulis Italicis Corsica, Sardinia, Sicilia (B. Btnens is , Presl j .

Specimina nostra inter B. creticam et B. crateginam., DC., ambigua viden- tur sed propiora plantae Nevadensi (olim B. vulgaris, L., var. australis, Boiss.= B. Hispanica, B. et R.). Folia subintegerrima in ramis ferti- libus spinas subquantia, in sterilibus (hornotinis ?) duplo longiora. BaccE nigro-czruleae stigmate breviter stipitato coronatse. B. cretica, L., cum B. cratagiua, DC., et B. dens$ora, Boiss. et Bubse, melius sicut subspecies B. vulgaris enumeranda: videntur.

BERBERIS (L., Gen. 442).

Pug. 3)?

PAPAVERACEB (Jzcss. Ben. 235). PAPAVER (L. Gem. 648).

P. HYBRIDUM (L., DC. Pr. i. 118). Mar. occid.-Casa Blanca ! Agadir ( C O X Indig. 1 8 2 j! Mar. merid.-Tam in planitie, prov. Shedma ! et p o p e Marocco ! quam

Ait Mesan ! Ar. Geog. Europa media.

P, DUBILJM (L., DC. Pr. i. 118), var. Maroccanurn, nob. Mar. sept.-Tanger ! Inter Tetuan et Ceuh ! Mar. occid.-Casa Blauca !

in reg. inferiore Atlantis. Regio Mediterranea omnis.

312 NR. J. BALL'S SPICILEGIUJI PI.OR;E MAROCCANX.

Differt a typo foliis radicalibus pinnatis, caulinis integris bas1 latis snbamplexicaulibus inaequaliter incisis re1 crenato-incisis, interdum subtrilobis, pilosis vel subglaberrimis. Quoad folioriim formam vi- detur a P . duhio prorsus diversum et potius ad P. gracile (Boiss. F1. Or. i. 115) accedens, sed form= intermedia: non desunt.

P . dubium cst species per totam Europam late diffusa, nec deest in re- gione Mediterranea (inclusa BIacaronesia). In India boreali-occi- dentali atlest forma @bra ( P . dzibizirn f i . lawigaturn, Elk. Mon.) quae forma, monente Boissier (Fl. Or. i. 111), ab ips0 Elkan cseterisqne auctoribns cum P. Zmigato, $1. B., perperam confusa cst. Vereor ne caracteres a disci creiiis incnmbcntibus vel inter se discretis a cel. Uoissier allati, iu hac gregc fnllaccs siiit. In stirpe nostra crenz disci interdum incuden tes iere ut in P . Xhncrs.

PAPAVER RHWAS (L., DC. Pr. 113). Mar. sept.-Tanger ! Mar. occicL-Mogador ( L o w e ) ; Aigsdir (Coll. Indig. 1871) ! Mar. merid.-Hinc incle in planitie Rlaroccana-Shedma ! Sbesliaoua !

Pr. urbem lllarocco ! Ar. Geog. Europa media.

P. TENUE (Ball, Journ. Bot. 1573, 296). hnnunm (seu bienne?); planta tota pilis longis setosis vestita (folia in-

feriora et sepala interdum glabrescentia) ; folia primaria pinnata, pinnis inciso-lobatis segmentis rotundatis, caulina circuitu late triangulari- ovata, bipinnatifida, segtnentis lineari-oblongis acutis ; caulis sub- simplicis setae inferiores pat&, superiores adpressae ; petala obovato- oblonga ; discus convexinsculns capsulae glabrae obovato-turbinatae latitudine vix aqualis, crenatus, crenis vix incumbentibus ; stigmata

Mar. merid.-In regione media et superiore Atlantis Majoris, in con- valle Lit Mesan! et in jug0 Tagherot ! a 1800 m. ad 3000 m., in convalle Amsmiz! et in monte Djebel Tezah ! a 1600 m. ad 2500 m.

Proximum P. urenario, M. B., at differt petalis angustis nec subro- tundatis, setis caulinis adpressis nec patulis, caeterisque notis. Cap- sula fere P. Decaisnei, Hochst. et Steud., sed in hoe discus com- planatus, crenae magis discretae.

P. SOMNIFERUM (L, DC. Pr. i. 119), var. SETIGERUM, =P. setigerum (DC. FZ. Fr.v. 585; DC. Pr. i. 119).

Mar. sept.-Tanger, versus Cap. Spartel (Webb. herb.) ! Mar. occid.-Mogador (Lowe Cut.). Ar. Geog. I n regione Mediterranea hinc inde, sed patria incerta. P. somnverum colitur, et saepe cum seminibus affertur in Imperio Ma-

roccano, et ex cultis evadit forma sylvestris, p . setigerum, aed ve- risiniiliter h a d indigenum est.

Formam nanam parvifloram legi pr. Sektana ! Rcgio Mediterranea ornnis.

6-7.

MR. J. BALL'S spIcIrac+Iu&f FLORB X S E O C C A K E : . 313

PAPAVER RUPIFRAGUM (Boiss. et Reut. Pug. p. 6 ) , var. ATLANTICUM

(Ball, Journ. Bot. 1873, 296). Perenne, czcspitosum ; rhizoma multicaule ; folia (fere omnia radicalia)

setis longis albidis dense obtecta, circuitu obverse lanceolata, grosse dent,ata vel pinnatipartita, segmentis inequalibus plus minusve inci- sis ; caulis scapiformis, 5-PO-pollicaris,' simplex vel ima basi fur- catus, adpresse setosus ; flores ante anthesin nutantes; petala late obovata, sordide aurautiaca ; capsula clavata, glabra, ima basi (ad petalorum insertionem) annulo glandulifero instruct8 ; discus con- vexus, crenatus, capsulse latitudinem superans.

Mar. merid.-In regione subalpina Atlantis Najoris ; Lit Mesan ! Djebel Tezah ! a 2000 m. ad 2600 m.

hspectu a planta Boissieriana diversissima ; hsec cnim obscure virens subglaberrima, dum varietas nostra canescens undique pilosissima, forsan melins pro subspecie habenda.

P . rupifragum est species distinctissima, hucusque tantum in Hispania Arunclana detecta.

R~EMERIA (Med. in. Ust. Arm. 1792, 15). R. HYBRIDA (DC. Syst. ii. 92, et Prod. i. 122, L. sub Chelidonio). Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis Majoris. Pr. Sektana circ.

1200 m. ! Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea fere omnis (exclusa Macaronesia). In

Europa media vix indigena. Siliquse in spec. nostris aliquid attenuatse fere ut in R. rhaad$ora,

Boiss.

In convalle Amsmiz, circ. 1500 in. !

GLAUCIUM (Xcop. Pl. Cam. ed. 2, i. 369). G. LUTEUM (Scop. 1 . c.) ,=G. flavnm (Ctz. Fl. Azist. i. 141; DC. Pr. i.

122),=G. fulvum (Lois. FZ. GaZE. i. 376; DC. Pr. i. 122),=Chelido- nium glaucium, L.

Mar. sept.-Legi nondum florens in arenoxis maritimis inter Tetuan et Ceuta !

Ar. Geog. Europa borealis et media. Regio Mediterranea omuis (iu- clusa Macaronesia).

G. CORNICULATUM (L., sub Chelidonio, Curt. Lond. vi. tab. 32; DC. Prod. i. 122).

Mar. occid.-In prov. Haha prope Mogador! (Schsb.) et prope Agadir

Mar. merid.-Prov. Shedma ! Mesfioua! Seksaoua ! Ar . Geog. Germania.

(cow. Indig. 1871) !

Regio Mediterranea (exclusa Macaronesia).

HYPECOEM (L. GeB. 171). H. PEKDULUM (L., DC. Pr. i. 124). Mar. merid.-In regione iuferiore Atlantis Majoris. In convalle Amsmiz,

Ar. Geoy. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea (exclusa Macaronesia). circ. 1400 m. ! Prope fiIzouda, J. D. H . !

LINN. J0URN.-BOTANY, TOL. XVI. 2 A

314 MR. J . BBLL’i3 SPICILEGIUII FLORB XIhROCCANIE.

CORPDALIB (DG. Pl. Xr. iv. 636; Benth. et H.$l. Gen. PI. i. 55) .

C. HETEROCARPA (Durieu in Purl. Giorn. Bot. i. 336, sub Ceratocapno),

Mar. occid.-Prope Mogador (Lowe Cat.). Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis Majoris, in convalle Kit Mesan

Ar. Geog. Africa borealis. De genere Ceratocapno confer B. & H. 1. c. p. 56. A Corydali cla-

viculata, cui simillima, differt fructu dimorpho. Superiores cujusvis racemi capsulre 1-2-spermae, bivalves, in rostrum longum cornuto- recurvum attenuatz ; inferiores nuces indehisccntes, monospermae, compressae, trnncata, fenestrato-sulcata. Nomen specificum a clar. inventore prius editum, aptum e t nullomodo mntaudum.

=Ceratocapnos umbrosa (Dur. in Walp . Ann. ii. 2Y).

drtesit G. Maw ! Hucusque nonnisi in Algeria detecta.

FUMARIA (L. Gen. 849).

F. AFRICANA (Lam. Dict. ii. 669),=F. corymbosa (Desf. Act. SOC. Hist.

Mar. sept.-In rupibus juxta Tetuan florentem et fructiferam legi mense

Ar. Geog. IIispania Granatensis ; Africa borealis.

F. OFFICINALIS (L., DC. Pr. i. 130; 01. Ham. Mon. 9). Mar. merid.-In regione media Atlantis Majoris, in convalle Ait Mesan

a 2000 m. ad 2400 m. ! Ar. Geog. Patria verisimiliter regio Mediterranea. Nunc fere cosmo-

polita per Europam, Asiam, Africam borealem (inclusa Macarone- sia), Americam tam borealem quam meridionalem late diffusa.

Nut. Par. i. 26, tab. 6 ; DC. Pr. i. 130; 01. Ham,. Mon. 42).

Junio 1851 et iterum Aprili 1871 ! Species sat rara.

F. VAILLANTI: (Lois. Not. p. 102; D c . Pr. i. 130; 01. Ham.

Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis majoris pr. Tasseremout ! Ar. Geog. Europa et Asia temperata ; regio Mediterranea (inclusa Ma-

caronesia) ; India orientalis (sec. 01. Hammar). Not= quibus hzec ct sp. sequens dignoscuntur ex fructu desumptz

vix stabiles sunt. Fructns F. parvijZor~ in Marocco rarius apiculatus.

F. PARVIPLORA (Lam. Diet. ii. 567; DC. Pr. i. 130; 01. Ham.

Mar. occid.-Casa Blanca ! Mar. merid.-Sat frcquens in planitie at in regione inferiore Atlantis

Majoris. Prov. Shcdma, pluribus locis ! Prope urbem Marocco ! In convalle Bit Mesan, J. D. H. ! I n convalle Amsmiz circ. 1500 m. !

Regio Mediterranea omnis, unde in Americam subtropicam (Mexico, sec. Parlatore, Buenos Ayes, kerb. Hooker) et in Indiam boreali-occidentalem effugit.

In spec. Maroccanis flores szepissime albi, rarius dilute rosei.

Mon. 14).

Mon. 16).

Ar. Geog. Enropa media (vix incligena 2 ) .

MR. J. BALL’S BPLCILEGIUX FCORE MAROCCANE. 315

FUMARIA CAPREOLATA (L., DC. Pr. i. 130 j 01. Hum. Won. 21), var. CONDENSATA, nob.

Mar. merid.-Ad radices Atlantis Majoris. Frequens circa Amsmiz ! Mzouda ! Keira !

AT. Geog. p. capreolata per Europam fere totain et repionem Me&- terraneam (incliisa Macaronesia) late diffusa est, et inde in Americam extratropicalem aufuga. De distributione €ormarum seu varietatum ardna sententia et forsan inutilis est.

Var. nostra est forma parviflora, racemis clensis, et forsan cum var. y, aZbijZoru, 01. Ham. 1. c . conjungenda.

F. media (Lois Not . 102; 01. Ham. Mon. 28, non DC. Syst. lzec

Prod.), var. a, 01. Ham. 1. c.,=F. Borzei (Jord. Cat. Jard. Bot. Gren. 1849),=F. Munbyi (Bois. et Reuf. P u , ~ . p. 5),=F. capreolata ( E n g . Bot. tab. 943, ct auct. Brit. fere omnium).

Mar. sept.-Circa Tanger ! Prope Tctuan, anno 1951 ! Ar. Geog. Europa occidentalis a Norvegia ad fretum Heredis. Africa

horeali-occidentalis ab agro Tingitano ubi valde frequens usque Oran. Huc verisimiliter referenda est F. capreolatu (Salzm. Essicc.).

F. media est nobis subspecies cum F. cupreolata pluribus formis inter- mediis conjuneta. -- , var., cui proxima F. SEPIUM (Boiss. Diagn. PI. Or. ser. 2,

i. IG ; 01. Ham. Mon. 27). Mar. merid.-In regione media Atlantis Majoris. I n eonvalk Kit Mesan

1700-1800 m. ! Var. nostra inter formas intermedias enumeranda qnibus adsocianda est F. sepium, Boiss. Habet sepala magna corollae dimidium subaequan- tia, subintegra, hasi leviter dentata, et bracteas pedicellis apice valde incrassatis aequilongas.

F. MACROSEPALA (Bois. El . p. 8 ; 01. Ham. Mon. 36). Mar. sept.-In monte Beni Hosmar legi specimen mancum mox flori-

Ar. Geog. Hispania Granatensis et Gaditana. Species rara, verisimiliter probe distincta. F. AGRARIA (Lag. El. PI. Hort. Matrit. 1816, p. 21; 01. Ham. Mon.

Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Emicc. sub F. media) ! Tetnan ! Mar. occid.-Casa Rlanca ! Mazapnn ! Nogador (Lowe). Agadir (forma

A. minoribus, ColZ. Indig. 1871) ! Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea Europ;e et Africs borealis. Deest in

Oriente et in Macaronesia. Ex Europa in Americam australem allata. -- , var. ELATA, nob., an F. rupestris, var. laxa (Boiss. et

Reut. Pug. p. 4) ? Mar. sept.-In rupibus calcareis pr. Tetuan ! Mar. merid.-Prov. Haha! Shedma ! Prope Marocco !

bundum ! I n eodem monte olim legit beatus P. B. Webb. Montes Tetuanenses.

38),=F. media (DC. Syst. ii. 134; et Prod. i. 130, Ron Lois.).

2 A 2

316 MIL J. BALL’S siwILm1uiI PLORX MAROCCISB.

F. rupestris (B. et R. 1. c. ; 01. Ham. Mon. 40), mihi videtur forma ru- pestris F. agrarice, et var. laxa est ejusdem forma sylvestris scandens.

Var. nostra differt a typo sepalis longius acuminatis apice subherba- ceis, fructu insigniter compress0 et carinato. -- , var. ATLAKTICA, nob. Mar. merid.--Tnregionemedia Atlantis Majoris. Ait illesan circ. 1600 m. ! Planta hand omnino certa-facies F. capreolatce, sed characteres potius

F. agrarire ; a priore differt sepalis multo latioribus. Multis notis, et foliorum segmentis subflabellatis, ad F. ja6eEZatam acccdit, set1 bractea: duplo longiores, ut in F. rupestri, et pedicelli erecto-patuli nec reflexi.

F. JEabeZlata (Gasp., Rendic. Ac. Sc. Nap. i. 51 ; 01. Ham. Mon. 41) verisimiliter ut subspecies F. agrarire enumeranda erit.

Fumaria tenuisecta (Ball, Journ. Bot. 1S73, 297). Affinis F. ayraria, sed insigniter differt sepalis angustis minimis acutis

dentatis diametrum fructus non attingentibus ; a F. judaica, Boiss., petalis multo majoribus, et ab omnibus hujus gregis valtle ludibuntli foliis tripinnatisectis in lacinias lineares planas mucronatas dissectis.

Mar. merid.-Iu regione inferiore Atlantis majoris in convalle Ai’t Mesan ad 1400 m. specimen unicum legi !

Invito animo novam snbspeciem proposui pro hac stirpe singulari. Folia fere F. Kralikii, Jord.

C E U C I F E R B (Juss. Gem. 237). MAITIIIOLA (R. Br. im H. Xew. iv. 119).

M. TRISTIS ( R . Br. 1. C. p. 120; DC. I’r. i. 134). Mar. occid.-Mogador (Lowe). A r . Geog. Europa mediterranea. Africa borealis. Ih Asia Minore rarior.

Macaronesia (sec. Lowe).

M. TRICUSPIDATA (R . Br. 1 . c . ; DC. Pr . i. 134). Mar. sept.-In arenosis maritimis inter Tetuan et Ceuta ! Ar. Geog. Per oras maris Mediterraneze late diffusa.

lanticis Europze et Afrieze hucusqae non indicata. In littoribus At-

If. PARVIFLORA (R. Br. 1. C . ; D c . Pr.i. 135). Mar. merid-Frequens in incultis saxosis calidioribus. Kin Oumast !

Misra ben Kara ! Gurguri ! Mtouga ! Mskala ! Prope urbem llarocco (Schsb. spec.) !

Ar. Geog. Hispania ; Marocco ; Macaronesia. In Rlarocco fit s q e robustior, sesquipedalis et ultra.

CHEIRANTHITS (R. Br. iiz H. E e w . iv. 119). C. SEMPERFLORENS (Schousb. Gew.in Marok. p. 181 ; DC. Pr. i. 136). Mar. occid.-Frequens in arenosis circa Mogador ! ubi jam legerunt

Inde se prokndit usque llroussonnet, Schousboe, Lowe et Balansa. radices montes Djebel Hadid ad Bin el Hadjar !

MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEOlUN FLOR-E MIIROCCAN-~E. 317

Ar. Geog. Species Afardccana e grege Macaronesiaco Dicroantiio, Webb, Specimen mancum sub hoc titulo, ex Mostaganem

Semina immatura tenuiter mar- sed satis diversa. in herb. Kewensi est aliena planta. ginata.

NASTURTIUM (R. BY. in H. Xezu. iv. 109).

R’. OFFIClNALE (R . Br. 1 . C . ; D c . Pr . i. 137). Mar. sept.-Tanger ! Mar. occid.--Mogador (Lowe Cut.). Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis Maj. pr. Amsmiz, J . D. H . !

Ar. Geog. Herba amphigzea, in temperatis, frigidioribus e t calidioribus

N. ATLANTICUM (Ball, Journ. Bot. 1573, 297). Bienne (?), csespitosum, glaberrimum, ex collo radicis longs verticalis

canles breves debiles emittens ; folia (fere omnia basilaria) profunde pinnatipartita, lobo terminali anguloso-rotundato, laterakbus inzequa- libus, spathulatis vel oblongo-ellipticis, angulatis ; pedicelli breves grades, non incrassati ; petala parva, ochroleaca ; siliqua (immatura) Izcris, subtorulosa, enervis ; stylus apice subclavatus.

Mar. merid.--In regioue superiore Atlantis Majoris-Ait Mesan supra h o u n d ! Tagherot ! a 2200 m. uscpe 280U m.

Ab affiuibus ( N . asperurn, Boiss. (Sisymbrium, L. ; DC. Prod.) e t N . Boissieri, Coss.) differt imprimis habitn et foliis diversissimis, floribus minoribus, ochrole-ucis (fere albidis) nec flavis, pedicellis gracilibus nec incrassatis, siliqua enervi, nec ut in illis valvae basi nervo notata. Stylus longitudine variabilis.

e t in subalpinis supra Arround circ. 2400 m. !

liemisphzerz borealis frequens.

(Plate IX.)

ARABIS (L. Gen. 818). A. VERNA (R . Br. in H . Kew. iv. 105; DC. Pr. i. 142, L. sub Hesperide). Mar. sept.-In monte Beni Hosmar ! I n eodem monte et in Djebel

rlr. Geoy. Rcgio Nediterranea, exclusa Xacaronesia.

9. ALBIDA (Steu. Cut. IZ. Gor. 51; DC. Pr. i. 142). Mar. merid.--In reg. snbalpina Atlantis r\rajoris, in ascensu jugi Tag-

herot rersiis 2600 rn. ! Fere eodem loco, anno 1873, specimen mancutu legerunt R. e t Fr. !

AT. Geog. Nontes regioiiisNediterranete, sed deest in Gallia e t in penin- sula Iberica. I n Ttalia media (territ. Lucensi) descendit in zonam OZere E u r o p e . In montibus ins. Teneriffa a 2200 ad 2700 m. se tenet.

Eeatns P. B. Webb (in Phyt. Can. i. 63) et cel. Boissier (in F1. Or. i. 174) plurin~as sic dict. species oricritales A’. al6idce rite conjunxerunt,

Dersa olim legit Webb !

318 NB. J. BALL’S ~PICILEGIUM FLOBE MABOCCANB.

scil. A. caucasica (W. Enum. Supp. 45), A. viscosa (DC. Syst. ii. 216), A. thyrsoidea (Sibth. et Sm. F1. Gr. tab. 642), A. Eongifolia (DC. Syst. ii. 219), A . brevifolia (DC. Syst. ii. 218), A. Billardieri (DC. Syst. ii. 215). Ah his omnibus speciuiina atlantica discrepant foliis iuferioribus, et caudiculorum profunde sinuatis vel repando- dentatis, caulinis etiam magis profuude dentatis.

Procul dubio est forma A . alpine sed satis constans et idea pro subspecie habenda.

ARABIS ERUBESCENS (Ball, Journ. Bot. 1873,297). Stirps male cognita e grege A . a2pince set1 cum ea confuudi nequit. ,4b

hac differt insigniter sepalis basi aequalibus coloratis, petalis dimidio minoribus erubescentibus, eorum lamina angustiore, pilis caulinis s in- plicibus vel apice furcatis, nec stellato-ramosis.

Nar. merid.--In regione alpina Atlantis Majoris. I n jug0 Tag- herot, ultra 3000 m., specimen unicum immaturum et incompletum legi !

A. AURICULATA ( L a m . Dict. i. 219; DC. Pr. 143). Nar. merid.--In regione subalpina Atlantis IIajoris. In convalle Ait

Mesan supra A4rround a 2400 m. ad 2660 m. ! In jug0 Tagherot usque 2800 m. ! In monte Djebel Tezah a 2500 m. ad 2800 m. !

Ar. Geog. Europa media. AIorites regionis Nediterraneae, exclusa Naca- ronesia.

Specimira in monte Djebel Tezah lecta habent siliquas breviores. R’on- nulla (versus 2500 m. lecta) sunt tenuiora pauciflora, fere var. P Sinaica (Boiss. F1. Or. i. 169).

A. PUBESCENS (Poir. Szlppl. i. 413 ; DC. Pr. i. 145),=Turritis pubes-

Mar. sept.-In monte Beni Iiosmar! et in rupibus calcarcis pr. Tetuan !

Ar. Geog. Species propria Algeriae et montium Tetuanensium. Siliqnze erectm strictze subsessiles pubescentes, valvis dorso obsolete

1-nervosis, in stylnm attenuats. Semina uniseriata exalata. Stigma bifidum.

cens (Defl . Fl. Atl. ii. 92, tab. 163).

ubi eam olim legit P. B. Webb.

A. decumbens (Ball, Journ. Bot. 1573, 297). Perennis, caqitosum, e collo radicis caules plurimos debiles decum-

bentes emittens ; folia radicalia obverse lanceolata, acute repando- dentata, in petioluin attennnta, caulina ovato-lanceolata, profunde dentata, suprema linearia subintegra, amnia ex pilis rigidis trifurcatis scabriuscula ; pedicclli filifomcs, pateiites, eiliqurei partem zequantes ; petala alba seu dilute carnea ; siliqusc compressz subtorulosn: crecto- patentis valvze margine psrum incrassats, dorso obsolete nervoss ; stylus filiformis, glaber, pro genere longiusculus ; stigma vix (aut ne vix) bifidum.

(Plate X.j

MR. J. BALL'S SPICILEQIUM FLORAZ MAROCCANE. 319

Mar. merid.-In regione subalpina Atlantis Majoris--Aft Mesan, supra Arround ! a 2100 m. ad 2600 m. Djebel Tezah ! a 2400m. ad 2500 m.

Differt ab A . pubescente, cui proxima, habitu omnino diverso, pedicellis patentibus nec adpressis, siliquis magis torulosis, stylo longiore basi discreto, Tabula Fontanesiana A. pubescentis habet siliquas truncatas, stylo subnullo przditas ; in speciminibus nostris prope Tetuan lectis video siliquas semper in stylum attenuatas.

ARABIS CONRINGIOIDES ( B U Z I , Journ. ~ o t . 1873,297). Radix lignosa, perenuis, caules plurimos erectos, subsimplices, foliatos

emittens ; herba tota glaberrima, glancovirens ; folia inferiora orbicu- lata, in petiolum longum sensim attenuata, raulina inferiora elliptica, basi auriculata, auriculis subanguhtis, superiora ovato-cordata, semi- amplexicaulia, omnia integerrima ; pedicelli numerosi, conferti, fili- formes, erecto-patali, siliquae b vel partem aequantes ; calyx basi subaequalis, sepalis purpurascentibus ; petala alba, apice rotundata in ungucm sensim attenuata, suberectn ; siliqua erecta, elongata, laevis, subcylindrica, nervo dorsali subobsoleto notata, in stylum brevem truncatum attenuata ; semina 1-seriata.

Mar. meritl.--In regione alpina et subalpina Atlantis Majoris-in jug0 Tagherot ! a 3000 m. ad 3500 m. ; in monte Djebel Tezah ! a 2100 m. ad 2800 m.

Species distiuctissima, nulli proxima, facie Coizrbzgia orientaZis sive C. clavatm, Boiss.

(Plate XI.)

CARDAMINE (L. Gea. 812). C. HIRSUTA (L . , DC. Pr. i. 152). Mar. sept.--Tanger (in monte Djebel Kebir) ! In umbrosis collium

inter Tanger et Tetuan ! I n monte Beni Hosmar pr. Tetuan ! Ar. Geog. Regiones temperatae hemisphaerze borealis. Per regionem

Nediterraneam (exclusa Macaronesia) late diffusa.

-- , var. SYLVATICA,=C. sylvatica ( L k . in Hoffm. Phyt. BZ. i. 50).

Mar. sept.-In monte Beni Hosmar pr. Tetuan circa 1000 m. ! Mar. merid.-In regione subalpina Atlantis Rlajoris-in monte Djebel

A r . Geog. Europa borealis et media (escl. arctica). Rlontes Hispnniae et Tezali circa 2200 m. !

Italize, sed verisimiliter ram in reg. Dlediterranea.

XOTOCERAS (R. Bi-. H. k k u . iv. 117). S. CANARIENSE (R. Br. 1. c . ; DC. Pr. i. 140). 8Iw. sept.-Tetuan (CtF6h Herb,) ! Nar. merid.-Inter Misra ben Kara et Xarocco ! Ar. Geog. Regio 3Ietiitrrranen ralidior II 12elutschia nsque in insnlas

Canarienses. I n c h borrali-oc,c.idcnt;r!is.

320 ME. J. BALL’S SPICILEBIUN FLORB MIROCCINLF.

ALYSSUM (L. Gelz. 805 ; H. et B. Gen. PI. i. 73). A. ALPESTRE (L., DC. Pr. i. IGl), var. SERPYLLIFOLIUM = A. ser-

pgllifolium (Desf. FZ. AtE. ii. 70). Nar. merid.-In regione media et superiore (7) Atlantis Najoris. I n

convalle Kit l\lesan circa 1400 m. florens e t frnctiferum legi 15 Arajo 1871 ! Ejusdem stirpis specimen mancum legerunt in jug0 Tagherot cl. Rein et Fritsch anno 1873! D e m o cel. Cossoii be- nevole communicavit specimina in monte Pjebel Afougueur ab indi- gena Ibrahim lecta mense Junio 1874 !

Ar. Geog. A. aZpestre est species polymorpha in mont.ibus Europa: medise et regionis mediterranee late diffusa. Var. nostia montium penin- su le Iberics et Africae borealis incola est.

Forma Pontanesiana a nobis lecta vix differt ab A. abestre, var. p. S U ~ T U -

tescens (Boiss. F1. Or. i. 268). Hujus (monente cel. Boissier) syno- nyma sunt A. tortwxum /3. orientale (DC., Prod. i. 1F4), A. Savraaicum, Andr., et A, serpyllifolium (Griseb. Spic. i. 276).

-- , var. MACROSEPALUM (Ball, Journ. Bot. 1573,298). Differt a typo sepalis majoribus subpersistentibus siliculam semimatuxam

equantibus, siiiculis basi ellipticis, nec cuneatis, stylo siliculam sub- zquante.

Xar. merid.-In rrgionc media Atlantis Majoris, in convalle Bmsmiz !

A. MONTANUM (L., DC. Pr. i. 162), var. ATLANTJCUM, nob., an Boiss.? =A. atlanticum (Desf. FI. Atl. ii. 71, tab. 143; DC. Pr. i. 161).

Mar. merid.-Tu regione subalpina e t alpina Atlantis Majoris. In monte Djehel Tezah a 2500 m. usque 3300 m. !

AT. Geog. Varietas nostra habitat in montibus Africae borealis et forsan Hispaniz Granatensis. Fo rms arcte affines per Europam mediam e t regionem Mediterraneam (exclusa Nacaronesia) diffusz.

Specimina nostra bene convenient spec. in monte Djebel Cheliah Al- geria lectis (Balansa, PI. d’AZgei.ie, KO. 595). Ab icone Fontanesiana diff‘erre vidcntur caulibus subprostratis, et sepalis persistentibus. Spe- cimina IIispanica quce vidi et ipse legi fructifera in moutibus Sierra Nevada ad aliam formam hujus spcciei polymorphz pertinere d e n - tur. In his caules erecti rigidiusculi, planta tota ex squainis stellatis multiradiatis lepidotis dense incana. I n spec. ab ips0 Boissier in Sierra de Nijns anno IS37 lcctis filamenta majora alata, nec dentata ut in A . i non tam typico, e t in 1’1. nostra.

A . inontaizuin est certe species polymorplia quibns adsociandce sunt velut varietatesvel subspecies plurimre ab auctoribus jam descripta, et formae non pauczc hucusque inetlitz. Inter varietates cum A . atlanlico, Dsf., enurneranda sunt A . difusnnz, Ten., ct A . repens, Baumg. Subspecies, notis stabilioribus apiioscenclas, sistuiit A. jexicaule, Jord., A. cunei- foli i trn, Ten., et A . PVulfenianunz, Bernh. IIoc no.r-issimam, in .Upi- 1 r i . s Carnicia c t Jnliis s i l t frequws, nor1 h h r t siliculas s m p r r Flabratas.

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H a , ,ace cel. Boissier, non raro sunt squamis lepidotis adspersa, basi tamen semper cuneata, sty1.o longiore, ab illis A . montani genuini dignoscends.

ALYSSUM CA'MPESTRE (L., DC. Pr. i. 163). Mar, merid.-In planitie, unde se protendit usque in regionein snbalpi-

nam Atlantis Majoris. Prov. Shedma ! Tasseremout ! Ait Nesan circ. 1400 m. ! et iterum ad 2300 m. !

Ar. Geog. Europa media. Rcgio Rlediterranea omnis (exclusa RIacaro- nesia).

A. CALYCINUM (L . , DC. Pr. i. 163). Nar. merid.-Rarius occurrit in planitie et in regione subalpina Atlantis

Najoris. Prov. Shedma, prope Ain Oumast In convalle Ait RIcsan ad 1200 m. et in jug0 Tagherot usque 2700 m. !

Ar. Geog. Europa media. In calidioribus fit plantula subsimplex erecta 2-3-pollicaris ; in frigidio-

A. SPINOSUM (Id., DC. Pr. i. 164 j Boiss. Voy. Esp. ii. 45, sub Ptilo-

Mar. merid.-Crescit abunde in regione subalpina et alpina Atlantis

Ar. Geog. Regionis Nediterraneae pars occidentalis, e Gallia Narbonensi I n AIacaronesia

Regio Mediterranea (exclusa Macaronesia).

rihus e basi ramosissima subcsespitosa.

tricho).

Najoris in convalle Ait Mesan a 2200 m. usque 3300 m.

ad Sierra Nevada; et in Africa boreali-occidentali. deest.

A. &iARITIMuM (Lam. Diet. 1. 98 ; DC. Pr. i. 164; Desv. Journ. Bat. iii. 162, sub Labularia; R. Br. in Clapp. Voy. App. p. 211, sub Kaniga).

Fst enim ClypeoEa maritima (L. Nant. 42G), et Alyssum halimifoliunz (L. Sp. P1. ii. 207), et A. minimum, L., Sp. PI. ii. 90s).

Mar. sept.-Frequens pr. Tanger ! (Salzm. Easicc.) ! prope Tetuan ! Legi etiam in monte Beni Hosmar ! nbi jam legerat Wehh.

Jlar. occid.-Djehel Haditi hand procul Nogador, J. D. H. ! Mar. merid.--In regione inferiore Atlantis Najoris-pr. Milhain ! Ar. Geoy. Regio Mediterranea littoralis (inclusa Macaronesia).

-- , rar. LEPIDOIDES, nob. Differt a typo habitu graciliore, silicnlis minimis in racemo confertis, nec

N a r . merid.-Ad radices Atlantis RIajoris, supra Seksaoua ! et in ~ O V .

A. LIBYCUM (Viv. Pl. L i b . p. 31, tab. 16, sub Lunaria; R. Br. in clapp.

Mar. occirl.-lIogatlor in arenosis ! (Lotfie Cat.) e t in rapibus insula: !

Synonyma Linnaana confusa.

ut in typo racemo basi Iaxo.

Ntouga !

Voy. App., sub Kceniga).

P r o p A h el Iladjar !

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Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea calidior imprimis occidentalis (Hispania Nascitur etiam australis, Bfrica horeali-occidentalis, Nacaronesia) .

in Persia australi et in Arabia Petrrea.

DRABA (L. Gen. 800).

n, HISPANICA (Boiss. El. p. 8, et Voy. Esp. tab. 13; W a l p . Rep.i. 147). Mar. merid.--In regione superiore Atlantis Majoris legimus in monte

Djebel Tezah a 2100 m. ad 3000 m. ! Specimina nostra ab exemplaribus Ilispanicis et Algeriensibus paululunl

recedunt siliculis ovatis stylum versus attenuatis, minus hispitlis (in- terdum glabrescentibus), pilis semper simplicibus, nec pilis ramosis commixtis, petalis minoribus styli longitudinem vix attingentibus.

Ar. Geog. Hispania Granatensis, Africa borealis. Formre arcte affines per montes Europre meridionalis, Asia: minoris et

Syrise diffusse.

EROPHILA (DC. Sys t . ii. 356). E. VULGARIS (DC. 1. c . ; DC. Pr. l72),=Draba verna, L. Mar. sept.-In monte Bcni Hosmar pr. Tetuan ! Ar. Geog. Europa emnis jexcl. arctica). Oriens. Africa borealis, ubi

rara. In Rlacaronesia non indicata.

MALCOLNIA (3. Br. in H. Kew, iv. 121).

M. LITOREA (R. Br. 1. c . ; DC. Pr. i. 187). Mar. sept.-"anger ! (Salzm. Ezsicc.) ! (Webb Kerb.) ! Mar. occid.-Casa Blanca (R. et Fr. spec. in Hb. K e w . ) ! Ar. Geog. Litora Oceaui a Cherbourg usque ad fretum Herculis. Secus

Africa boreali-occi- mare 3Iediterraneum in Elispania et Hetruria. dentalis. .

N. LACEKA (L. Sp. 926, sub Cheirantho ; Lam. Dict. iii. 332, sub Hes- peride; DC. Syst. ii. 445, et Prod. i. 188), var. PATULA,=M patula, (DC. Syst . ii. 444, et Prod. i. 187).

Mar. occid.-Valde frequens in arenosis prope Nogador ! et in reg. litorea usque Ain el Hadjar !

Ar. Geog. I-lispania centralis. Ager Nogadorensis. Arcte affinis ill. lacerce habitat in reg. litorali h s i t a n i z et Hispanice meritlionalis.

IIuc verisimiliter specimina a Bronssonnet in agro Mogadorensi Iecta quce ill. A. P. De Candollc sub M . Zucera (Syst. 1. c.) disposnit. Re vera M. Zacera et JL p a t d a sunt formz ejusdem speciei. In linc foIia linearia integra, in illa oblongo-lincaria, pinnatitido-sinuata. S b his differt 31. Broussonnetii stglo basi scabrido, foliis s q e latioribus integris, vel breviter repando-dentatis; uec video aliam notam diagnos- ticam. In omnibus stylus filiformis elongatns, apicem versus gIaber, vel tenuissime papilloso-scaber.

MR. J. BA.L&'S SPICILEGIUM FLORB MAROCCANE. 323

-- , var. BROUSSONNETII,=&~. Broussonnetii (DC. Syst. ii. 445, et Prod. i. 154; Deless. Icon. Sel. ii. tab. 63).

Mar. occid.-In arenosis pr. Mogador ! (Brouss.) D C . 1. c. Inter Shedma et Mogador legit G. Xaw et specimina pulchra mihi bene- vole dedit !

A h , merid.-Prope Mesfioua unicum specimen legi ! Ar. Geoy. Ximis incerta, vix ultra territ. Xaroccauum. M. Broussonnetii est M . patula forma vegetior, szpius statura major,

ramis rigidioribus, floribus majoribus. I n spec. nostris tamen flores paullo minores quam in icone Delessertiana. Quid sit ill. Brousson- netii auct. Flora Hispanicze est mihi res dubia. Specimina sub lioc titulo a Boissier et Reuter prope Gibraltar anno 1837 lecta, et qua: ipse legi anno 1571, mihi videntur magis affinia M. litorece, et, forte ejusdem varietas foliis profunde sinuatis. An diversa sit nil. erosa (Lag. Cat. I-Iort. Matr. 1514, p. 20, sub Hesperide, DC. Syst. ii. 446) ex descriptione incompleta non satis apparet.

I@. NANA (DC. Syst. ii. 456, et Prod. i. 195; Coss. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. x. 397, sub Sisymbrio, Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 222),=i\I. binervis (Boiss. Ann. Sc. Nut. 1S32, Tl),=Sisymbrium binerve (C. A . 111. Enum. p. 189; Juub. et Sp. Ill. PI. Or. tab. 289),=Hesperis ramosissima (DC. Prod. i. lSS),=BI. confusa, Boiss. FZ. Or. i. 221.

Mar. sept.-Specimina duo semipollicaria florentia detexi inter czespites gramineae cujusdam in saxosis prope Tetuan lectze !

Ar. Geog. Species per regionem Mediterraneam fere omnem late dis- persa. In Gallia meridionali, in Italia, Graecia, et in Africa boreali hinc inde occurrit. I n litore IIaris Caspii legerunt Hohenacker, C. A. Mqer, et Buhse ; e t in maritimis Anatoliae (suadente Boissier) olim legit Tournefort.

Pace cel. Boissier differentiae inter M. nanam et confusam, Boiss., om- nino instabiles sunt.

Speciminibus ad Mare Caspium prope Baku lectis plantala nostrae ada- mussim conveniunt nisi stylo aliquantulum breviore. Distributio hujus speciei, forsan ex statura minima a viatoribus prztermissz, admodum singularis.

SISTMBEIUM (All. 37. Ped. i. 274). s. OFFICINALP (L., sub Erysimo, S C G ~ . FL Carn. ii. 20; DC. Pr. i.

&r. sept.-In calcareis prope Tetuan! ct in monte Beni Hosmar! AT. Geog. Europa media et borealis (escl. arctics).

nea (inclusa Macaronesiaf . S. IRIO (L., DC. Pr. i. 192). Mar. sept.-Tanger (Sichsb. sec. Cossorz). Nar. occicl.-Casa Blanca ! Mar. merid.-Sheshaoua !

191).

Regio alediterra- In Americam advecta.

Visum pr. Tetuan !

Inter rudera urbis Narocco !

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A r . Geog. Europa nccidentalis a Britannia ad freturn Herculis. Regio

SISYMBRIUM THALIANUM ( G a y in:Gaud. Fc!. Helv. iv. 318; L. et DC.,

Mar. merid.-In regione siihalpina Atlantis Majoris, in monte Djebel

A r . Gegg. Europa ornnis (inclusa arctica). Sibiria. Regio Mediterranea

S. RUNCINATUM ( L a g . FZ. Hisp. ined. ; DC. Pr. i. 194). Mar. orient.-JIaharoug (Warion) , Coss. Index. Ar. Geog. Hispania: prov. Xurcia.

-- , var. HIRSUTUM, nob., = S. hirsutum (Lag. , DC. Pr. I . c . ) Mar. merid.--In regione inferiore Atlantis Najoris, in conralle Amsmiz

circa 1500 m. specimen unicum legi exemplaribus Hispanicis p r o p JIatritum lectis omnirio conforme.

Ar. 'Geog. Hucusque nonnisi in agro Matritensi et in Atlunte Nnjore detectum.

S. ERYSIMOIDES (Desf. FZ. A t l . ii. 84, tab. 155; DC. Pr. i. 195). Nar. merid.-Sat frequens in ruderatis et locis saxosis reg. inferioris.

Prov. Shedma ! Ain Beida ! in ruderatis urbis f ihocco ! Selrsaoua ! Milhain ! e t alibi.visum.

Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea imprimis occidentalis, scil. Nacaronesia, Hispania australis, Africa boreali-occidentalis, Sardiuia ; deinde occurrit in Persia australi et Arabia et in Abyssinia. Deest ut vidctur in Italia continentali, Graxia, Asia Minore, Syria et Bgypto.

Sprcimina in solo arido crescentia graciliora sunt, sed vix pro varietate habenda.

Mediterranea (inclusa 3Iacaronesia). India boreali-occidentalis.

sub Arabide).

Tezah a 2100 m. ad 2300 m. !

(excl. Macaronesia).

Africa borealis.

EZYSINCIU (L Gen. Sl4). E. AUSTRALE (Gay , Erysim. D i a g ~ p. 6),=F. pallens (Boiss. Thy.

ESP. in Add. 1). Tl6), var. GRANDIFLORUM,=E. grandiflorum (Ucsj ' . FZ. At l . ii. 85),=E. longifolinm (DC. Syst . ii. 504, et Prod. i. l!)!)).

Mar. merid.-In regione media et superiore Atlantis Majoris a 1!)00 m. usque 3000 m. In convalle Ait Mesau nude se protcndit usqrle in jug0 Tagherot ! In monte Djcbel Tezah ! Spccimina in monte Djcbel Afougueur (Coil. Indig. Ibrahim) siliquis matoris (nobis Iirius deficientibus) mense August0 1874 lecta, henevole comm. cel. Cossoll !

AT. Geog. Var. nostra montium Africze borealis ct IIispauize iucola est. Fornise arcte affines per Europam rnediam et totam regionem AI\leditey- raneam (esclusa Macaronesia) diffusz.

Liter tot tantosque viros rei Botanices expertissirnos qui genus Erysi- mum tetigerunt sententia: omnino discordes. Invita natura cbaracteres stabiles frustra qrizrunt, et limites ccrtos indicare conantrir in catena formarum afiuiniurn quam inaximc prouimarnm.

MR. J. CALL’S SPICILEOIUJL F L O R E MAROCCANB. 325

In speciminibus nostris folia szpius anguste linearia sed interdum la- tiora, semper tamen intcgerrima. Pedicelli sepissime calgcis longi- tudinem dimidiam attiugentes, sed interdum longiores. Siliquae tennes ex pilis adpressis undiqne (etism in anp l i s ) canescentes. Semina erangnlata. Confer Gr. et God. F1. Fr. i. 89.

Exemplaribus permultis hujus gregis accurate observatis species s. d. Europe= vidcntur omnes sub E. Cheiranthio, Pers., velut subspecies seu varietatrs enumerandae. Synonymia extrieatu dificiliima.

BUSSICA (L . Gem. 820; B. et Gem. P1. i. 84). [In genere a cel. Bentham et Hooker reformato cum Brassicis veris

(Linnzano scnsu) enumerantur sicut subgenera Sinapodendron, Lowe, Sinalpis, L., Erucastrum, Schimp. et Spenn., et Hirschfeldia, Moench. His forsan melius addenda erit Diplotaxis, genus charactere nullo satis stabili fulcratum. Plurimae species habitu proprio a Bras- sicis distinguuntur, sed Diplotaxis virgata, D. siifolia, D. auriculata nec habitu nec charactere a Brassica dignoscende, et nisi obstitisset auctoritas gravissima Diplotaxin cum ceteris generibus supra memo- ratis sub Brassica enurnerare maluissem, duce cel. Boissier (Voy. Esp. ii. 32), etsi vir celeb. in Flora Orientali sententiam mutavit.]

B. TORULOSA (Durieu in Rev. Bot. ii. 431 ; ExpL Bot. Alg. i. 74;

Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Exsicc. sub Diplotaxi catliolica) ! (Webb

Mar. occid.-Mazagan ! Mogador (Balansa, Coss. Iudez). A T . Geog. Africa boreali-occidentalis ; Hispania ? Nimis prorima Diplotaxi siifolia, Kze. ; lianc aegre distinguo siliqusc

rostro longiore tenuiore insigniter trinervi, nec ut in D. siifolia saepius obsolete trmervi.

Walp. Ann. i. 45).

Herb.) ; Tetuan (Webb Herb.) !

B. FRUTICULOSA (Cyr. Pl. Var. Neap. fasc. 2, p. 7, tab. 1; DC. Pr. i. 216).

Mar. occid.-Prope Mogador (legit Lowe, sed determinatio incerta) ? Cel. Cosson spec. Loweanum cum Sinapi radicata (Desf. F1. AtI. ii. 98, tab. 167) comparavit et in eadem sententia facile hscreo.

Xinapis hispida, Desf. est enim, u t mihi fidem fecerunt specimina (ISalansa, PI. d’Alg. No. 50) ex Mostaganem, varictas hispida Brassica ,fiuticulbsa, Cyr. Confer tamen Boiss. F1. Or. i. .?93, de B. fru- ticulosa.

13. VARIA (Durieu in Rev. Bot. ii. 434 ; Walp. Ann. i. 48), =Erucastrum varium (Durieu, E ~ p l . Bot. Alg. tab. 75).

Mar. merid.-In sasosis aridis pr. Seksaoua ! Milhain ! Ar. Geog. Marocco ; Algeria occiclentalis. Inter spec. duo supra Seksaoua lecta unum refert potius var. p. mon-

326 ME. J. BALL’S SPICILEGIUM FLORE MABOCCANB.

tanam, Dur. 1. c. tentes quam in spec. e loco classic0 pr. Oran receptis.

Siliqua: pubesceutes in spec. nostris sunt magis pa-

BRASSICA ELATA (BaZZ, in Journ. Bot. 1373, 295). Perennis ; caulis erectus, simplex, 3-6-pedalis, superne glaberrimus sub-

aphyllus ; folia radicalia (10-14-pollicaria) et caulina inferiora lyrato- pinnatifida, lob0 terminali-maximo, rhomboideo, inzeqnaliter crenato- dentato, lateralibus oppositis alternisve, ovato-cuneatis, dentatis, rachi lata cum nervis lateralibus albo-rubente, omnia hispido-incana ; in- florescentia pyramidalis e ramis brevibus patulis subEqualibus ; pe- dicelli breves, stricti ; sepala erects, obtusa, pilosiuscala; petala saturate lutea, limbo subrotuudo ; siliqua subtorulosa, superne ner- vosa, in rostrum conicum 1-2-ovulatum trinerve attenuata.

Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis Majoris--in rnpibun apricis prope Seksaouna ! et Milbain ! circ. 1000 ni. IIuc verisimiliter frustulum mancum in monte Djebel Afougueur ab indigena Ihraliim lectum et a cel. Cosson benevole communicatum !

Proxima est B. b a t h , Boiss., sed in hac rami laterales distantes erecti, nec velut in nostra planta versus apicem caulis approximati patuli, siliquE rostrum bio- vulatum, pedicelli erecto-patentes. 111. Boissier calycem patentem B. bet ice tribuit, et sepala obtusa, dum in tabula (Boiss. Voy. en Esp. pl. 9) pictor sepaliim ucutum perperam delineavit. I n speciminibus siccis mihi obviis sepala erecta nec patentia videntur. In eadem tabula siliquae rostrum ovulis 2 abortivis ostenditur. Ubi ovulnm unum alterumve fertile adest rostrum fit longius et siliquae dimidiam longitndinem attingit. I n specie nostra et in sequente siliqua quam in B. betica multo minor.

(Plate XII.)

Species insignis, ab affinihus omnino dissirnilis.

B. RERAYENSIS (BUZZ, Journ. Bot. 1873, 298). Radix perennis ; caulis e basi adscendente erectus 1-2 furcatus, glaber-

rimus, subaphyllus ; folia radicalia parva, incano-hirsuta, runcinato- lyrata, segmentis basin versus alternis, caulina pauca demum linearia ; racemus brevis, pauciflorus ; pedicelli erecto-patuli, tennes, siliquam 4 aequantes ; rostrum tenne, aspermum: ?), siliqu~e seu 6 partem attin- gens ; sepala elliptico-oblonga, pilosa; petala saturate lutea.

Mar. merid.-In regione subalpina Atlantis Majoris in convalle Ait Mesan, a 2000 m. ad 2500 m.

Frnctus in speciminibus nostris omnino immaturus, melius exploratus forsan ovulum in rostro detectum fuerit. Quocunque fit a Brassicis planta nostra nulIomodo divellenda. B. bretica, Boiss., proxime affinis, differt foliis glabris vel ex setis brevibus sparsis scabrida, racemo elon- gato, siliqua duplo longiore, rostro crass0 dispermo, nec tenui asperrno.

B. NIGRA (L. et DC. Pr. i. 218, sub Sinayi; Koch, Deutsch. FZ. iv. 713; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 390).

Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Ezsicc.) !

(Plate XIII.)

MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEQIUII F L O R B BfAROCCANiE.

Ar. Geog. Europa (exelusa arctica) ; regio tota Mediterranea. Specimen immaturum et incertum a J . D. H. prope Tingidem lectum

BRASSICA ARVENSIS (L. et DC. Pr. i. 219, sub Sinapi,=B. sinapis

Mar. sept.-Tanger (Webb Herb.) ! Mar. merid.-? Specimen mancum valde incertum legi pr. Sheshaoua !

Ar. Geog. Europa et Asia temperata; regio Mediterranea.

B. ALBA (L . et DC. Pr. i. 230, sub Sinapi ; Boiss. Voy.Esp. ii. 39). Mar. occid.-Nogador (Lowe Cat.). Forsan est potius species sequens.

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forsan huc spectat.

(Vis. 37. Dalm. iii. 136).

Spec. alterum pariter incertum pr. Ourilia legerunt R. et Fr. !

B. aEba hucusque in Imp. Maroccano uon alibi visa szepe cum seminibus cerealibus in terras longiuquas aufertur.

Ar. Geog. Verisimiliter indigena in regione Mediterranea orientali, unde versus occidentem usque Insulas Canarienses, et per Europam mediam diffusa est.

B. HISFIDA (Schsb. Gem. ;Ilarok. p. 182, tab. 4, et DC. Pr. i. 220, sub Sinapi, non Tenore).

Mar. occid.-Verisimiliter ex agro Mogadorensi orta sunt semina a Schousboe culta.

Mar. merid.-In arvis pr. Seksaoua! Ar. Geog. Algeria ; Marocco ; Macaronesia. Tabula Schousboeana effigies plantae cultae ex seminibus Maroccanis-

Planta spontauea gracilior est, et verisimiliter ex agro Mogadorensi. foliis multo minoribus praedita.

B. hispida, Tenore, est Ersca sativa, Lam.

B. ADPRESSA (Moench, Meth. 261, sub Hirschfeldia; Bois. Voy. ESP. ii. 38),=Siuapis incana (L, DC. Pr. i. 220),=Erucastrum incanum (Koch, Syn. p. 56).

Mar. sept.-Tetuan (1851) ! Mar. merid.-Misra ben Kara haud procul Marocco ! Keira (Balansa),

Ar. Geog. Europa occidentalis ; regio Mediterranea fere omnis (inclusa

- -, var. LASIOCARPA, nob.= Sinapis heterophylla (Lag. Cat.

Mar. merid.-Mesfioua! In convalle Kit Mesan circ. 1300 m. ! Spec. nostra a typo longius recedunt quam spec. quae ex Hispania vidi.

13. GENICULATA (Desf. Fl, Atl. ii. 98; et DC. Pr. i. 218, sub

Mar. merid.-Sheshaoua ! In hortis et ruderatis urbis Marocco speci-

Coss. Index.

Macaronesia).

Hort. Matr. 1S16 ; DC. Pr. i. 220).

Sin-rpi).

mina imniatura legimus !

328 MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEGIU3f FLORE MAROCCSNB,

Ar. Geog. Africa borealis. Haec species, cum B. nigra ah ill. A. P. De Candolle adsociata, meliore

jure in 5 Hirschfeldia enumeratur. Habct rostrum 1-2-spermum et siliquam nullomotlo tetragonam, gaudet enim hicc nervo medio parum prominulo nerris lateralihus evidentibus, quibus notis B. adpressce potius quam B. nigra prGpiuS accedit.

BRASSICA NERVOSA (Ball , Journ. Bot. 1873, 299). Annua (?), ramosa ; folia radicalia lyrata inciso-dentata, caulina pauca

lanceolata, omnia in petiolo et nervis hirta; petala (pro grege) magna lsete lutca; eiliquae brevis insigniter nervosic pube brevi velutina ves- tit= rostrum glabrum, aspermum (2).

Mar. merid.-Specimen unicum mancum legi in prov. Mtouga ! Forsan incaute nomen novum .proposui (loc. cit.) pro planta male cog-

nits, verisimiliter in $ Hirschfeldia enumeranda. Ex structura siliquse et cotyledonibus conduplicatis ad Brassicus certe referenda.

BRASSICA, spec. nov. ? Mar. sept.-Cel. J. D. Hooker specimen legit, verisimiliter inter Tan-

ger et Tetuan, cui desunt flores et folia inferiora. Proximum videtur Sinupi Allionii, Jacq., sed in spec. Hookeriano rostrum valvarum dimidio aquilongum, eximie trinerve, compressum, subanceps. Fo- lium caulinum unicum quod adest omnino Barbarece vulgaris, R. Br., unde nomen triviale barbarecefolia aptum fuerit.

RRASSICA, spec. nov.? Mar. sept.-Alterum specimen ex regione collina inter Tanger et Tetuan

attulit cel. Hooker, verisimiliter ad Brassicam referendum, sed ob fructum nimis immaturum incertum. Planta tota glabra, nisi foliis inferioribus setis nonnullis retrorsis praeditis. Folia infcriora runcinato- pinnatifida. An forma singularis B. n i g m ?

BRASSICA, spec. nov.? Mar. merid.-In convalle Amsmiz ad 1400 m. specimen unicum

legi ! Annuum ; caulis e basi ramosus, ramis subaphyllis 6-S-pollicaribus ;

folia radicalia et inferiora pauca obverse lanceolata in petioliirn at- tenuata, repando-dentata, prasertim secus nervos strigulosa ; racemns elongatus ; pedicelli glahriusculi, stricti, cdycem subaequantes; sepals zequalia, basi non saccata, purpurascentia ; petala in unguem sensim attenuata, ochroleuca, venis saturate violaceis ; siliquae immaturs subcylindrica elongat= erect=, cum mule ex setis hrevibus retrorsis scabra ; rostrum glabrnm, tenue, valvarum sexta: parti aequilon- gum, verisimiliter aspermum. Stigma capitatum breviter bifidum. Habitu a Brassicis recedit ; planta ulterius inquirenda.

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DIPLOTAXIS (DC. g s t . ii. 220).

D. HARRA (Forsk. Fl. AZg.-arub. 118, sub Sinapi; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 388),= D. pendula (DC. Syst. ii. 630, et Prod. i. S22),=D. bispida (DC. 1. c.),=L). crassifolia (DC. E . c.),=Sis~.mbrium pendulum (Deg. H. Atl. tab. 156).

Mar. merid.-Prope Amsrniz circa 900 m. ! Ar. Geog. IIispania ; Sicilia. Oriens. Africa borealis. Siliquae in spec. nostris saepius non pendulae.

D. ERUCOIDES (L . , sub Sinupi; DC. Syst. ii. 631, et Prod. i . 222). Mar. sept.-Tanger ! As. Geog. Regio Mediterranea, sed non xbique; deest in Macaronesia,

D. VIRGATA (Cav. Prcel.; DC. Syst. ii. 631, et Prod. i. 222). Mar. sept.-Prope Tanger ! Ar. Geog. Hispania. Africa borealis. Sperim. nostra Tingitana sistunt lusum vel varietatem seminibus snb-

Formam majorem foliis profundius divisis legi prope

Gracia, Asia Minore et in Bgypto.

uniseriatis. S. Roque !

D. CATHOLICA (DC. Syst. ii. 632, et Prod. i. 222; L. sub Sisymbrio). Mar. sept.-Prope Tetuan legi auno 1951 specimina incompleta veri-

Ar. Geog. Europa australis ; Africa borealis.

D. SIIFOLIA (Kunze in Flora, xxix. 685; Walp. Ann. i. 49). Mar. sept.-Frequens circa Tanger ! In regione collina inter Tanger et

Mar. orcid.-Frastulum plant= 4-pedalis haud procul Mogador legit

Ar. Geog. In utroque litore freti Hercnlis, et (?) prope MogaJor. D. siifo2ia est D. catholicre proxima species, sed forsan satis ditincta

foliis et caule pilis patentibus vel subreflexis hispidulis, foliorum laciniis ovatis vel inciso-lobatis acutis, nec linearibus obtusis, petalis orhroleucis nec luteis. Ludit glabrescens sed foliorum indole semper diversa. Confer Brassicam torulosam, Dur.

similiter huc referenda !

Tetuan ! In maritimis inter Tetuan et Centa !

J. D. Hooker verisirniliter huc referendum ! ?

D. TENUIFOLIA (L., sub Sisymbrio ; DC. Syst . ii. 632, et Prod. i. 292). Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Exsicc. sub D. catholica) ! Ar. Geog. Europa media et Mediterranea. Tauria. Asia Minor.

D. TENUISILIQUA (Del. Ind. Sem. tl. Monsp. 1S47,7 ; Wuk. Ann. i. 49), =D. auriculata (Durieuin Expl. Bot. Alg. tab. 76, sine descr.).

Mar. occid.-Casa Blancal Aln el Hadjar, haud procul Mogador, J . D. H . !

Mar. merid.-Satis frequens in regione inferiore. In aridis fit tenuior, SI". J0UEN.-BOTANY, VOL. XVI. 2 B

330 MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEGIUM FLORB MAROCCANE.

pumila parvitlora. Misra Ben Kara ! Amsmiz ! Prov. Mtouga ! et alibi visa.

Prov. Shedma prope Kin Oumast ! prcpe Mskala

Ar. Geog. Africa boreali-occidentalis. Nomen triviale ~ e ~ ~ i s ~ Z ~ ~ u u jure prioritatis conservatur. Typo Algeriensi sat hene congruunt specimina nostra ; paululum variant

-- , var. RUPESTRIS, nob. A typo differt habitu graciliore, caule ramosissimo cum foliis hispidulo,

Mar. merid.-In rupihus aridis supra Seksaoua ! Eandem formam lege-

I n hac specie pedicelli et siliquse semper patentes vel erecto-patentes.

siliquis longiorihus, caule interdum pilis retrorsis hispidulo.

semiuihus srepissime uniseriatis.

runt in prov. llltouga cl. R. et Fr. !

ERUCA (DC. Syst. ii. 636). E. SATIVA (Lam. Fl. Fr. ii. 496; DC. Pr. i. 223), var. STENOCARPA,

Coss.,=E. stenocarpa (Boiss. et Reut. Pug. 8) . Mar. merid.-Frequens in regione inferiore. Tasseremout ! Ourika !

Reraya ! Milhain ! Seksaoua usque 1500 m. ! Selrtana (R . et Fr. spec. in herb. Kew.) ! Keira (Bnlansa); Akka (Murd.), Coss. Index.

Forma typica per regionem Mediterraneam (inclusa Macaronesia) late diffusa et in cultis ac ruderatis Europze medise cum seminihus advecta.

Varietas distinguitur habitu tenniore, siliquis angustioribus suhuniseriatis. Adsunt formae intermedize.

Ar. Geog. Africa borealis.

CAR-~~ICIITERA (DC. Syst. ii. 64).

C. VELLB (DC. Syst., Ic. et Prod. i. 224),=Vella annua, L. Mar. merid.-Sat frequens in regione inferiore. Prov. Shedma (pluribus

Ar. Geog. Europa meridionalis calidior. Oriens. Africa borealis. locis) ! Sheshaoua ! Misra Ben Kara!

SUCCOWIA ( X e d . in Ust. An%. i. 64).

S. BALEARICA (DC. Syst. ii. 642, et Prod. i. 224). Mar. sept.---In monte Beni Hosmar spec. unicum detexit G. Maw et

Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea occidentalis a Sicilia usque Ins. Canari- mihi henevole dedit !

enses, nullihi a mare remota.

CAPSELLA (Velzf. tabl. iii. 110).

c. BURSA-FASTORIS (L., sub Thluspi; illoench. Meth. p. 271 ; DC.

Mar. sept.-Tanger ! 51ar. merid.-In regione infwiore et suhalpina ct alpina Atlantis Majoris.

Prod. i. 177).

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In convalle Ait Mesan supra Arround (2200 m.?), R. e t Fr. spec. in herb. K e w . ! In jug0 Tagherot ultra 3000 m. !

Ar. Qeog. Herha amphipea in temperatis utriusque hemisphserae et usque in regiones arcticas diffusa, hominum vestigia secuta.

SENEBIEKA (.Pair. Dict. vii. 7 5 ) . s. CORONOPUS (L., sub Cochlearia, Poir. Dict. 1. c.; DC. Prod. i . 203). Mar. sept.-Tetuan ! Mar. merid.-Misra Ben Kara, haud procul urbe Marocco ! Ar. Geog. Europa media ; regio Mediterranea (exclusa Macaronesia).

LEPIDICM (L. Gen. 801). L. SATIVUhf [L . , DC. Prod. i. 204). Mar. mcrid.-Irt ruderatis urbis Marocco ! Ar. Geoy. Regio natalis incerta. Per orbem late diffusum, sed saepius

L. NEBRODENSE (Rajin. Prdc. p. 35, sub Nasturtio ; Guss. F1. Sic. ii. 154; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 355),=L. pubescens (Tin. Cat. H . R. Panorm. 150, non Desv.), = L. Bonannianum (Guss. Prod. F1. Sic. p. 211),=

Lepia Bonanniana (Psl. Fl. Sic. 84), var. ATLANTICUM, no6. Folia radicalia spathulata longe petioiata, integra vel lyrata, caulina ses-

silia vix auriculata, omnia velutina ; sepala glabra, purpurascentia ; silicula glabra, matura interdum puhescens, breviter emarginata ; stylus brevissimus.

Mar. merid.-In regione superiore Atlantis Majoris, vall. Ait Mesan ! a ,0500 m. ad 3000 m.

An diversum sit L. stylatum (Lag. Ann. Cienc. Nat. 1802) non satis liqriet ; confer Guss. Fl. Sic. 1. c. Nomen infaustum, durn styli longi- tudo in hac grege nimis variabilis.

A r . Geoy. Formae arcte affiiies per regionem Mediterraneam (exclnsa Macaronesia) late diffuse, nullibi frequentes.

PluriinE s. d. species sicut varietates sive subspecies enumerandae, scil. L. cafycotrich2cm, Kze.=L. yraaadense, Coss.=L. Dhayense, Nunby, quocum forsan jungendum est L. microstyhm (Boiss. & Held. Diag. ser. 2, fasc. vi. p. 21, et Boiss. FI. Or. i. p. 355). L. nebrodensis forma aberrans est (ni fallor) L.petrophilum, Coss. Valde aftinis est species Europae occidentalis L. hirtum, L., quocum adnurreranda sunt L. heterophyllum, Benth., L. Smithii, Hook., et L. Villarsii, G. et G., durn inter has formas characteres firmos adhuc frustra quzernnt botanici. L. oxyohm, DC. Syst.=L. humifusurn, Req., est species insulae Corsicae propria, crronee in DC. Prod. vol. i. p. 204, et Boiss. F1. Or. i. 356, ad Floram Syriacam relata. Specimina enim in herb. Labillardihre loci natalis indicatione carent, sed spec. Corsicis omnino conformia sunt. Hor: tamen, etsi siliculia forma sat bene definitnm, est

ex hortis aufuga.

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332 HB. J. BALL’S SPICILEGIUM FLORA3 MAROCCANI.

sp. nostrse forsan nimis proxima ; vidi inter specimina Sicula L. ne- brodensis formam intermediam.

LEPIDIUM LATIFOLIUM (L., DC. Pr. i. 207). Mar. sept.-Legi anno 1851 prope Tetuan ad ostium fluminis ! Ar. Geog. Europa temperata ; regio Mediterranea (exclusa Macaronesia);

Verisimiliter stirps orientalis in regionibus occidentali- Asia media. bus advena.

BISCUTELLA (L. Gen. 808).

B. APULA (L., DC. Pr. i. 182). Mar. sept.-In monte Djebel Kehir prope Tauger ! Prope Tetaan in

-- , var. MICROCARPA,=B. microcarpa (DC. Pr. 1. c.). Mar. occid.-Ain el Hadjar, haud p r o d Mogador ! Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis Majoris. Tasseremout !

Ait Mesan usque 1700 m. !

Monte Dj. Dersa (Webb Herb.) !

Ourika !

B. lyrata (L., DC. Pr. i. 182),=B. raphanifolia (Pair.),= B. mari- tima (Ten. Prod. n. Neap. 38).

Mar. sept.-Tanger in saxosis ! In monte Beni Hosmar supra Tetuan, J. 1). H. !

Mar. merid.-In prov. Mtouga! In reg. subalpina Atlantis Majoris supra Arround ad 2200 m. legi specimen unicum siliculis minimis ad varietatem B. scutulatam (Boiss. et Reut. Diagn. P1. Or. ser. 1, i. 41) accedens.

Nihil dubito quin Biscutella omnes annuze regionis Mediterranese (ex- clusa B. obovata, sp. omnino dubia) pro unius speciei prole haberi de- beant. Forma foliorum radicalium, qua nota B. Zyrata, L., B. rapha- nqolia, Poir., et B. maritima, Ten., a csteris dignoscuntur, subcon- stans, et bze meo sensu suhspeciem sistunt. Sed not= diagnostic= ex caule plus minusve folioso et ramoso, ex siliculis minoribus majo- ribusve, disco et margine puberulis, vel scabris, vel Izevibus, vel disco laevi et margine scabro, omniuo fallaces sunt, et inter exemplaria eodem loco nata plane variabiles. Habeo specimen pope Tanger lectum ad B. beticum (Boiss. et Reut. Diagn. PI. Or. ser. 1, i. 42) accedens. Specimina sews flumen pr. Tetuan lecta sunt proxima B. maritime, Ten. Sed in hac grege qui nolit speciem in catervam inordinatam divellere de nominihus auctorum parum curare debet.

Prope Tetuan ad rivos fluminis legi anno 1851 !

THLASPI (L. Gen. 802). T. PERFOLIATUM (L., DC. Pr. i. 176). Mar. sept.-In monte Beni IIosmar p o p e Tetuan ! Mar. merid.-In regione media Atlantis Majoris, in convalle Ait Mesan

rirc. 2100 in. !

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Ar. Geog. Europa media (in Scandinavia advena). Asia temperata. Regio Mediterranea.

-- , var. ROTUNDIFOLIUM, not. = T. rotundifolium (Tin. PI. Rur. Sic. fax. i. 46),=T. Tineanum ( H . de Pav. PI. Sic. Exsicc.).

Mar. merid.-In regione alpina Atlantis Majoris. In jug0 Tagherot usque 3200 m. !

Spec. nostra Sicnlis omnino conformia. Secundum auctores praecipuor siliculae T. perfoliati sunt in quovis loculo 4-ovulatc. In spec. nos- tris video saepe semina 5 in quovis loculo fructus matnri.

Clar. Rein et Fritsch ex regione alpina versus jugum Tagherot retule- runt specimen mancum nimis incompletum, verisimiliter in genere Thlaspi ponendum.

In monte Djebel Tezah !

- IBEEIS (A. Gelz. 834).

I. PARVIFLORA (Aluntyl in BuU. Soe. Bot. Fr. ii. 282), ?=I. Numidica (Jord. Diagn. 290).

" Pedicellis fructiferis corymbosis ; radice annua ; caule a basi ramoso parce hirtulo ; f o l k glabrescentibus linearibus, valde dentatis quasi pectinatis ; siliculis emarginatis, sinu latiusculo, stylo dimidium sinus aquante ; petalis subzqualibus vix calycem violaceum superautibus."

Sec. diagnosin Munbyanum, 1. c. Mar. merid.-Speciuiina duo fructifera prope Tasseremout legit cl. G.

Ar. Geog. Africa boreali-occidentalis. Specimina nostra diagnosi supra citatae haud omnino conformia, sed spe-

ciminibus Bourgaanis prope Gharrouban in prov. Oran lectis sat bene conveninnt. In spec. nostro racemus fructifer corymbosus, folia mar- gine setosa, subpinuatifida lobis paucis 1-2 utrinque instructa ; pedi- celli fructiferi rigidi superne papilloso-scabri, inferne laeves ; stylus basi ala: si l icda vix adnatus.

Pace cel. Cosson ha:c mihi potius quam I . pectinutce, Boiss., videtur I . odorutcz, L., proxima, et forsan ejus subspecies.

Maw; quorum unum mihi communicavit !

I. GIBRALTARICA (La, DC. Pr. i. 181). Mar. sept.--In fissuris rupium montis Beni Hosmar prope Tetnan I

eodem loco quo earn ohm legit frnctiferam beatus P. B. Webb. AT. Geog. In promontorio Calpes et in inontibus Tetuanensibus.

HUTCHINSIA (R. Br. in Hort. Kew. iv. 82).

H. PETRBA (I,., sub Lepidio; R . Br. 1. c. ; DC. P r . i. 178). Mar. sept.-Inter Tetuan et Ceuta! In monte Beni Hosmar p o p e

Mar. merid.--In regione subalpina Atlantis Majoris. Ait Mesan supra Tetuan !

Arround circ. "300 m. ! Iu monte Djebel Tezah ad 2500 m. !

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Ar. Geog. Europa (exclusa arctica). Montes regionis Mediterranea (exclusa Macaronesia). -,

ISATIS (L . Gen. 524).

I. T I N C T O R I A (L., DC. Pr. i. 211), Var. LIETEVIRENS, nob. Differt a planta Europaea satis variahili foliis lsFte virentibus, sed non

video notas graviores differentiales. Siliculze obverse lanceolatae, siepius apice obtusangulo.

Mar. merid.-Frequens in regione media Atlantis Majoris unde sews torrentes in reg. inferiorem descendit. In convnlle Ai’t Mesan a 1600 m. usque 2000 m. ! In convalle Amsmiz 1100-1700 m.! Specimina nostris conformia sub “ I . virens, Cot%. MSS.” in montihus Djebel Ouensa et Djebel Afougueur ab indigeno Ibrahim lecta benevole romm. cel. Cosson.

Ar. Geog. Species per Europam mediam et australem, et per Orientem diffusa. Varietas Maroccana est.

CRAMBE (5. Gem. 825).

tab. 151 ; DC. Pr. 1. c.),=C. filiformis (Boiss. Voy., an Jucq. ?).

1500 usque 1800 m.!

C. HISPANICA (L., DC. Pr. 226),=C. reniformis (Desf. Fl. Atl . ii. 78,

Mar. merid.-In regione media Atlantis Majoris. In convalle Smsmiz a

Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iberica. Africa borealis. C. hispanicam, L., et C. reniformem, Dsf., sistere unam eandemque spe-

ciem mihi haud dubium videtur. Nec in descript. auctorum, nec in exemplaribus plurimis Hispanicis et Algeriensibus a me sedule iuves- tigatis, nec in aspectu et habitu plautae spontaneae, quam pluries vi- vam observavi, notam differentialem nisi levissimam detexi. Quid sit Vera Crarnbe jiZiformis, Jacq., hic non dijudicare licet. Nomen triviale Linnaeanum certe conservandum.

RAPISTRUM (Desv. Jourm. Bot. iii. 160).

R. RUGOSUM (L., sub Myagro ; Berg. Phyt. iii. 171 ; DC. Pr. i . 227). Mar. sept.-Tanger ! (Webb Herb.)! Ar. Geog. Europa media ; regio Mediterranea omnis. Ludit siliculis

hirtis vel glabris.

CERATOCNEMUM (Coss. et Ba2. in Bull. SOC. Bot. Fy. xx. 239).

‘< Sepala erecto-patula, lateralia haud saccata. Petala longe unguicnlata, limbo integro. Stamina tetradynama, filamentis liberis subfiliformi- bus inferne complanatis edentuhs. Glandulze hppogynae qnatuor, duae ad staminum longiorum paria, duae ad stamina lateralia. Siliqua

NR. J. BALL’S SPICILEGICM PLORE MAROCCANIE. 335

abbreviata, indehiscens, coriaceo-indurata mesocarpio suberoso, biar- ticulata ; articulo inferiore pedicel10 via latiore, tereti-subcompresso, uniloculari, monospermo, vabis distinctis sect coharentibus in appen- dicem terminalem triangulari-lanceolatnm articulo superiori equilon- gum et in anfractu dorsali articuli superioris receptam productis ; ar- t icdo superiore vix secedente, subrhontbeo apice truncato stylo cuspi- dato, a latere compresso, nervo prsminente suturam valvarum articuli inferioris coutinuante donato, utrinque dorso ad receptionem proces- sus valvaris excavato, uniloculari, monospermo, evalvi. Stylus siliqua longior, lanceolato-linearis, tetragonus. StigmE depressum, integrum. Semina oblonga, funiculo brevissimo, semen articuli irzferiopk pendu- lum, superioris erectum. Cotyledones rectae, obovato-suborbiculatae, retusa, canaliculato-complicate, radiculam amplesantes.

Folia oblonga, grosse sinuata dentatave, superiora aupustiora szepe subintegra. Ra- cemi ebracteati, virgati, demum elongati, pedicellis filiformibns demum subclavato-incrassatis. Flores lutei. Siliquae parvulse, erecto-adpressa.

“Ceratocnemzm, novum genus ex ordine Cruciferarum, juxta Rnpistrum collocandum, sect distinctum valvis articuli inferioris siliquae in appen- dicem articulo superiori sequilongam productis, non abrupte truncatis, articulo superiore subrhombeo compresso ntrinque uninervio, non ovoideo re1 subgloboso p1uricostato.-Nomen generis ob formam in- sigiiem articuli inferioris siliquse e verbis grsecis K i p a s (cornu) et K V T ~ ~ S

(ocrea) conflatum.”

‘‘ Planta aunua, erecta, ramosa, pilis simplicibus hirta.

CERATOCNEMUM RAPISTROIDES (Coss. et Bal, 1. c.). “ Planta annua. Caulis erectus, a parte inferiore vel a basi ramosus,

teres, pilis albis rigidulis deflexis hirtus. Folia hinc inde przsertim in nervis et ad margines hirta, oblonga, in petiolum brevem angustata, grosse sinuato-subpinnatifida dentatave, superiora angustiora dentata vel subintegra. Racemi ebracteati, primum subconferti, demum elongati virgati laxiusculi. PeJicelli calyce subbreriores, suberecti, demum incrassato-subclavati, hirti. Sepala hirta. Petala lutea, calyce subtriplo longiora, limbo obovato integro venis satoratioribus picto, in unguem exsertum attenuata. Stamina longiora calycein longe ex- cedentia. Siliquse pilis patentibus Iiirta, 8-10 millim. longae, erectae, adpressae. Semina stramineo-fuscescentia, sub lente tenuissime punctnlata. Maio 1867 floriferum et jam fructiferum lectum.”

Diagnoses accuratas gen. et spec. nov. ad calcem conservare malui. Mar. merid.-In monte Djebel Orgnis supra Imintenout detexit cl.

Balansa,! Legimus 4-6-pedale raniosissimurn in sepibus distr. Mes- fiona haud procul urbem Marocco t. et nanum (vix pedale) prope Tas- seremout !

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CAKILE ( A d a m . Pam. PI. ii. 423). C. MARITIMA (Scop. FZ. Carn. No. 844; DC. Pr. i. 185),=Bunias

Mar. sept.-Tanger in arenosis ! In arenosis inter Tetuan et Ceuta! Ar. Geog. Litora maritima totius Europae et Africa borealis, in Maca-

Forma arcte affinis in America boreali et in Antillis.

Cakile, L.

ronesia et Africae litore Atlantic0 nondum detecta.

HEXICEAMBE (Webb , in Arm. Sc. P a t . 8er. 3, xvi. 246, tab. 19).

H. F R U T I C U L O S A (Webb, 1. c . ; wnlp. Ann. iv. 215). Descriptionem Webbianum hic referre licet. “ Suffruticulus glaberrimus caudicibus lignosis, tortuosis, nodosis, nudis

ad ramorum apicem foliosis. Folia petiolata, Isete viridia, lyrata, basi scpe auriculata, lobis 2 iuferioribus oppositis, 7-nervata, nervis a medio ad lobos divergentibus, venis reticulatis sub epidermide insignita, basi subcordata truncata vel cuneata, lamina 2-22 poll. longa, 14-2 poll. lata. Petioli 2-3 poll. longi, ascendentes, basi latiores, sub- semivaginantes, supra canaliculati, juniores glandulis nigris inconspi- cuis conspersi. Ramnli floriferi foliis subduplo longiores. Racemi laxe paniculati. Pedicelli filiformes, floribus duplo longiores, fruc- tiferi elongati, ebracteati. Calyx basi fere aequalis, luteus, patens, mox deciduus, foliolis lanceolatis, concavis, intus nervosis, tenuibns, diaphanis. Petala lutea, calyce duplo longiora, longe unguiculata, unguiculis angustis, laminis obovato-lanceolatis, basi attenuatis, apice rotundatis, integris, ramoso-nervosis. Filamenta edentula, sub medio dilatata, apice subulata. Anthem sequales lanceolatae, sub medio affixa, basi sagittate, flava. Glandula hypogynse 4, quarum 2 post stamina longiora sitse iisque alternantes, calcariformes, obtusae, 2 ante stamina breviora iisque opposita, tenues laminiformes ovario applicatae. Ovarium ellipticum, planum, basi attenuatum, tri- nerve, margine acutum, ad medium usque alatum. Stylus nullus. Stigma sessile globosum, centro depressum. siliquse ellipsoidea? utriuque attenuatse, apice rostrsta, glabrae. Funiculi recurvi, usque ad medium dissepimento rudimentario immersi. Ovula globoso- pyriformia, sub apice affixa. Semina ovata, compressa, reticdata, fusca. Coty ledones rotundatse, tenues. Radicula cylindracea coty- ledonibus longior.”

Mar. sept.-In fissuris rupium calcarearum montis Beni Hosmar supra Tetnan primus detexit beatus P. B. Webb. Eodem fere loco ad 900 m. s. m. legimus vix florentem die 12 Aprilis 1871 !

Ovarium (utrinque) trinerve sec descript. Webbianum. In flore innupto video nervos duos laterales conspicuos, medium vero subobsoletum.

Planta singularis inter Brassiceas et Cukilineas transitum prabens,

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septo rudimentario, siliquae articulo inferiore interdum aspermo vel prorsus abortivo. Habitus Brassice. Caudex basi diametro tripol- licaris et ultra.

RAPHAXUS (A. Gen. 812). R. RAPHANISTRUM (L., DC. Pr. i. -229). Mar. sPpt.-Tanger ! (Webb Herb.) !

Mar. occid.-Casa Blanca ! Ar. Geog. Europa omnis ; regio Mediterranea (inclusa Xacaronesia).

C A P P A R I D E B (Juss. Gen. p. 242). CAPPARIB (A. Gen. 643).

I n regione collina inter Tanger e t Tetuan !

C. SPINOSA (L., DC. Pr. i. 245), var. p, CANESCENS (COSS. Not. PI. Crit. i. 58), = C. herbacea ( Wil ld . Enum. Ber. 560 ; DC. Pr. i. 245).

Mar. nerd.-In regione inferiore Atlantis Majoris. In convalle Ait hleaan a 1300 ad 1600 m. ! -- , var. y, BGYPTIA (Boiss. FI. Or. i . 420),=C. Bgyptia (Lam.

Diet. i. 605 ; UC. PT. i. 245). Mar. merid.-Sat freqoens in apricis saxosis ad radices Atlantis Majoris.

Gurguri ! Seksaoua ! Inter Sektana e t Frouga (G. &law spec.) ! e t alibi pluries visa !

Optimo consilio cel. Boissier loc. cit. species plurimas auctorum notis diagnosticis stabilibns non definitas sub typo Linnaeano sicut varietates enumeravit.

Ar. Geog. Species per regionem omnem Mediterraneam late diffusa est, sed deest in Macaronesia.

RESEDACEB (DC. Tlieor. Elem. p. 214).

RESEDA (L . Gen. 603).

R. A L B A (L . , n!!iill. Arg. in DC. Pr. xvi. sect. 2, 557). Mar. sept.-Tetuan ! Mar. occid.-Cam Blanca! Mazagau ! Mogador (Lome) ! Ar. Geog. Regio Metiiterranea omnis (exclusa MaIacaronesia). Occnrrit in

Europa media, prmertim occidentali, forsan non indigena. Verisirni- liter introducta in Indiz orientalis montihus Nilgherry, et in Capite Bona: Spei.

R. P R o P i N Q u A (R . Br. Obs. Oudn. Deizh. Clapp. p. 22; Mull. Arg.in DC. Prod. xvi. sect. 2, 559),=R. eremophila (Boiss. Diagn. ser. 1, viii. 88).

Mar. occic1.-Secus Oued Kseb prope Mogador ! Mar. merid.-Prov. Shedma prope Mskala ! Prov. Mtouga I At-. Geog. Regio desertorum a Syria et Arabia Petriea per Bgvptum, et

333 MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEl3IUM FLORA3 MAROCCANB.

in plaga Africae Tripolitanae et Tunetanae, et in Rlarocco meri- dionali.

R. propinqua est species sat variabilis, in eodem specimine video flores tetranieros et pentameros ; scil. sepalis et petalis 4 vel 5 . Pe- tala in spec. Maroccanis iconi Miillerianae (Monog. tab. vi. fig. 90) haud omnino conformia, sed differentiae parvi momenti. Sepals sepins suhinaqualia, superiora paullo longiora. Capsula: glaudu- losae, szpissime ortocostatae, costis 4 vel rarius 3 placeutis oppo- sitis elevatis suhalatis.

R. tricuspis (Coss. in Ball. SOC. Bot. Fr. xx. 241) cnjus specimen p o p e urhem Marocco lectum ex herb. Schousboe debeo humanitati cel. auct., differt a R. propinqua imprimis capsula trigona ore tridentato. Forsan pro subspecie habenda; video tamen capsulam in R. propin- qua interdum, etsi rarius, tridentatam.

(Plate XIV.)

Semina fere ut in R. alba.

RESEDA ATTENUATA (Ball, in Journ. Bot. 1873, 299). Radix perennis ; canles 2-3 exiles, 8-12-pollicares ; folia inaequaliter

pinnatifida, caulina ahbreviata, 2-4-juga ; spica gracillima, pauci- flora ; bracteae lineares, pedicellos brevissimos sspius superantes ; sepala ovato-lanceolat.a, snperiora 3 interdum coalita ; petala brevis- sima calycem vix superantia, staminibus breviora, 2 superiora gau- dent appendicula (pro grege) magna, papilloso-ciliolata, concava, et lamina appendiculam zquante, profunde trifida, lobis aequalibus, petala media superioribus subsqnalia, petalum inferius in lacinias tres aequales uninervias ultra medium divisum ; capsula dentibus quatuor brevibus erectis coronata, puhe rara brevissima adspersa.

Mar. merid.-In regione alpina et subalpina Atlantis Majoris, Ait Mesan! et in jug0 Tagherot! a 2100 m. ad 3000 m. Ex montibus Djebel Afougueur et Djehel Ouensa (Coll. Indig. Ibrahim) specimina benevole comm. cel. Cosson.

Prosima R. Gayane (Boiss. Voy. Esp. p. 76, tab. 21 ; Mull. Arg. Monog. p. 11 1). Ditfert praesertim petalis minimis, lamina fere ad basin tri- fida, omnibus appendiculatis, et capsulae dentibus magis prominenti- bus. Forsan sicut subspecies enumeranda.

In DC. Prod. xvi. sect. 2,558, cl. JiIuller, R. Gayanam sub nomine “R. undata, L.” enumeravit. De R. undata inter auctores gravissimos ntagna est orta dissensio. Ipse Linnaxs speciem male cognovit et quoad fructum descriptio (Spec. PI. ell. 2, p. 644) plane erronea, et auctores fere omnes ad aliam speciem nomen retulerunt. Sententiam primam cl. auctoris Monographiae secutus sum, et nomen R. undata delendum w e censeo.

R. PHYTEUMA (L., Icfiill. Arg. in DC. Pr. xvi. sect. 2, 563). Mar. merid.-Prov. Shedma! At-. G’eog. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea imprimis occidentalis, sed

In convalle Anismiz circa 1200 m. !

deest in Macaroneia.

MR. J . BALL’S 8PICILEGIUM F L O R E MAROCCAXE. 339

Reseda media (Lag. NOW. Gen. et Spec. p. 17 ; Alull. Arg. in DC. Pr. mi . sect. 2, 563),= R. macrosperma (Rchb. in Flora, 1830, i. 130 ; Walp. Repert. ii. 752 ; Mull. Arg. Monog. 133).

Mar. sept.-In monte Djebel Kebir prope Tanger! et in saxosis prope Cap Spartel !

Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iberica. Forma arcte affinis (R. orientalis, Boiss.) in Oriente infrequens.

Specimina nostra IIispanicis conformia, sed fulia fere oninia integra, capsulae demum horizontales, nee pendulze. Preter semina paulu- lum majora petalorum lacinulae spathulatze, nec lineares, notam diagnosticam przebent. Adsunt tamen, sed rarius, formae intermediae, et hanc pro subspecie R. Phyteumatis enurnerare malui.

R. diffusa (Ball, Journ. Bot. 1873,299). Radix biennis (?), caulis e basi ramosissima, diffusa ; folia integra vel

rarius trifida, oblongo-linearia, obtusa ; bracteze filiformes, (pro grege) longiusculze ; sepala ut in R. media, Lag. ; petalorum superiorum lamina brevis, antheris vix longior, 3-partita, laciniis lateralibus profunde 3-5fidis, lacinulis apice abrupte spathulatis (fere coch- leariformibus) ; capsula (nundum matura) insigniter 3-dentata, den- tibus divergentibus.

Mar. merid.-In rupibus calcareis ah urbe Marocco septentrionem ver- sus legit. cl. G. Maw, et mihi benevole communicavit.

A proxima R. media, Lag., recedit petalorum lamina multo minore, lacinulis cochleariformibus, nee obovato-ohlongis apice rotundatis, capsulze dentibus divergentibus, qua nota ad R. inodoram, Rchb., proprius accedit. R. media, Lag. et R.. inodora ad subspecies, sub typo R. Phyteumate, L., reducendze mihi videntur. Planta nostra lon- gins a typo recedit.

R. LUTEA (L., Mull. Arg. in DC. Pr. xvi. sect. 2, 569), var. MUCRONU-

Mar. merid.-Prov. Mtouga ! Ain Tarsi1 ! Shedrna ! Distinguitur caule strict0 subsimplici elongato, capsulae papillosze, prs-

sertim immaturae, dentibus longioribus. Iudividua vegetiora ad typum revocantnr.

Ar. Geog. Varietas nostra (ex Mull. Arg. 1. c. 570) uascitur in peninsula Iberica et in Algeria et in insula Zante.

Species per Europam mediam et rcgionem Mediterraneam late diffusa est, sed in Africa boreali infrequens. Deest in Macaronesia, ubi locum tenet species affinis R. crystallina, Webb.

R. neglecta (Mull. Arg. Monog. p. 178, et in DC. Pr. xvi. sect. 2, 568).

Mar. merid.-In rupibus supra Seksaoua ! ? Frustulum ex Oasi Akka (Coll. Indig. Mardochaus) benevole comm. cel. Cosson.

LATA,=R. mucronulata (Tin. Cat. H. Panorm. 1828, p. 280).

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Ar. Geog. Hucusque nonnisi in Algeria meridionali ad fines Saharse detecta.

Frnstula spec. ah Oasi Akka, q u z hnmanitati cel. Cosson debeo, speci- minibus Kralikianis a Null. Arg. citatis non omnino conformia. Spe- cimen a riobis ad Seksaoua lectum, R. lutece habitu simile, ex forma capsularum propius R. neglectm. H z c mihi certe forma R. Zutece, et forsan potius varietas quam subspecies, videtnr. Forma petalorum inter varietates Miillerianas R. Zutea valtle ludibunda. Qnoad notam dia- gnosticain a magnitudine capsula: desumptam confer verba ipsius auc- toris. Sub R. neglecta habet ‘‘ capsulae 12 mm. longae,” durn sub R. Zutea var. 01 legitur “ capsulze saepius 12 mm. longz.” Denique semina

’ in R. neglecta minora et magis numerosa, sed ni fallor adsunt iudividua inter media.

RESEDA LANCEOLATA (Lag. Gen. et Spec. p. 1 7 ; Jfiill. Arg. in DC. Pr. xvi. sect. 2, 571), var. CONSTRICTA, nob.,=R. constricta (Lange, Descr. PI. Nov. prrec. Hisp. fasc. i. 6, tab. viii., icon optima).

I n convalle Aft hfesan a 1200 m. usque 1600 m. ! Supra Seksaoud circ. 1500 m. ! Djebel Sidi Fars (BaZansa, Coss. Index).

Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis Majoris.

Ar. Geog. Kucusqne nonnisi in Hispania australi visa. R. constricta sistit varietatem satis insignem, pedicellis longis patulis sub-

Folia in spec. ab Ait horizontalibus, capsulis longius dent.atis erectis. Mesan omnia trifida segmentis latis.

373, var. SUBSESSILIS (?).

Capsulae dentes divergentes.

R. STRICTA (Pers. Each. Iii. 10; Mull. Arg. in DC. Pr. xvi. sect. 2,

Mar. occid.-Ai’n el Ilacljar Iiaud procul Mogador ! Specimen unicum legi nondnm fructiferum et ideo incertum ; differt a

Ar. Geog. R. stricta est imprimis species Hispanica : varietates tres a spec. Hispanicis pedicellis brevissimis.

Miiller 1. c. enumeratae in Africa boreali sat late diffusa.

R. ELATA (M511. Arg. in DC. Pr. xvi. sect. 2,578 ; Coss. in Bull. SOC.

Descriptionem Cossonianam optimam hic referre licet :- “ Plaiita biennis vel induratione perennans.

Fr. xx. 242).

Caules elati, indurato- frutescentes, ramosi, brevissime puberuli, ramis elongatis virgatis cor- tice olivaceo-viridi striis albidis. Folia sub lente brevissime puberula, in petiolum attenuata, plana, irzdivisa lineari-lanceolata elongata acutiuscula, vel rarius trisecta segmentis foliis indivisis conformibus. Racemi densiflor;, bracteis apice subcomosi, demum clongati, cap- sulk inferioribus remotiusculis, superioribus approximatis. Bractea lanceolato-lineares longe acuminatae, late albido-marginatae, glabra?,

MB. J. BALL'S SPICILEQIUM FLORB MAROCOANE. 341 $ores sub antliesi longe excedentes, post anthesin cito decidue. Calyx 6-sepalus, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis acutiusculis, late albo marginatis, glabris vel dorso brevissime puberulis, cito deciduis. Pe- ta la calyce subduplo' longiora, omnium ungue albo suborbiculato vil- loso, lamina pallide lutea, superiorurn trisecta lobo medio lineari- spathulato lobis lateralibus subduplo brevioribus in lacinias in- q u a l e s Zineares G-g-sectis, lateralium trisecta lobo medio oblong0 inferne angustato lobis lateralibiis indivisis, inferiorum lob0 medio conformi lobis lateralibus srepius obsoletis. Disci hgpoggni lamina majuscula ovata acutiuscula ascendebte marginibus recnrvis estus concava, ntrinque villosa. Stamina circiter 40, filamentis inEqua- libus, glabrie, snb anthera haud dilatatis, <mox deciduis. Ovarinm oblongo-cylindricum, papilloso-snbvelutinum, apice profunde 3-den- taturn dentibus glabris, placentis integris. Ovula inordinatim in placentis 3-serialia, in placenta quaque circiter 18-20. Capsulu. lon- giuscule petlicellata, suberecta, longa, trigono-su3cyZindrica, apice tridentata, infra dentes wib angustata, brevissime puberula, placen- tis integris. Semina minuta (immatura tantum nota), tuberculis minutissimis undique obsita."

Mar. merid.-In montibus ad austro-occidentem nrbis Maroc, prope Kei'ra, circiter ad 900 m. detexit cl. Balansa. Legitnus in collibus aridis supra Inlintenout ad 1100 ni. ! et in monte supra Seksaoua circ. 1500 m. !

A proxima R. villosa, Coss., diTert, u t nobis docet cel. auctor, caule foliisque puberulis, non longe pubescenti-villosis, sepalis citius deci- duis, petalorurn superiorum lobis lateralibus haud cristacformibus, capsulis eylindraceo-t~igonis, nee oblongis infra dentes vix angus- tatis.

In spec. uostris capsula infra dentes evidenter sngustata, dentes diver- gentes multo longiores quam in R. villosa, indumentum totius plants brevissiuie hirtulo-scabruin.

RESEDA LUTEOLA (L., Mull. Arg. in DC. Pr. xvi. sect. 2, 583). Mar. sept.-"anger (Salzm. Exsicc.) ! ( W e b b Elerb.) ! Foruiam latifoliam

-- , var. AUSTRALIS (L+full. Arg. 1. c.). Mar. merid.-In monte supra Seksaoua circa 1400 m. ! -- , var. CRISPATA,=R. crispata (L ink , Enum. PI. H. Ber.

Mar. sept.-In regione collina inter 'ranger et Tetuan ! Species per Europam mediam et regionem totam Mediterranesm (inclusa

De distributione varietatum ab aucto-

legimus inter Tetuan et Ceuta !

1822, p. 8).

Macaronesia) late diffusa est. ribus non rite definitis fusius disserere inutile tluco.

3h2 MR. J. BILL’S S P I C I L E O I U ~ I FLORZ JIAROCCAN2E:.

CISTINEB (Juss. Gen.~249 ; Spach, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2 , vi. 357).

C I S T U S (L. Gen, 673 ; Willk. I c . et Desc. 2’1. tab. 75 ad 109).

C. A L B I D U S (L., DC. P r . i. 263 ; Willk. 1. c. tab. 7 7 ) . Mar. sept.-In monte Beni IIosmar’ supra Tetuan ! In rupibus prope

Tetuan (1861) ! Ar. Geog. Regio Metliterranea occidentalis. Deest in Rlacaronesia.

Hic et sequens C. crispus desunt in Gracia. Conf. Boiss. F1. Or . i. 437.

C. C K I S P U S (L . , DC. Pr. i. 264; Willk. 1. c. tab. 78). Mar. sept.-Prope Tanger in monte Djebel Kebir! et alibi visus! (Sulzm.

Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea occiclentalis (exclusa Macaronesia). Lndit foliis breviter pubescentibus, vel (prmertim junioribus) longius

C . P O L Y M O R P H U S (Willk. 1. c. tab. 79-82),=C. vulgaris (Spach, 1. c. pro parte). Forma genuina=C. villosus (L. , Sp. PI. 736 ? et Lam. Dict. ii. la), cui ut synon. verisimiliter corijnngendi sunt C. pilosus, L., et C. incai~us, L., et C. eriocephalus (Viv. Cors. p. 8).

Mar. occid.-Djebel Hadid hautl pi-ocul Rlogador (Rein et Fritsch, Spec. in hb. Kew.) !

Mar. merid.-In collibus apricis sat frcquens, et in regione inferiore Atlantis Majoris. Tasseremout ! Distr. Reraya ! I n convalle Ait Mesan circ. 1300 m. ! In rupibus pr. Seksaoua !

Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea omnis (exclusa Macarouesia) ; in penin- sula Iberica minus freqnens.

- -, var. CORSICUS (PVdlk. 1. c. tab. 82). Mar. merid.-Ad radices Atlantis Majoris p o p e Ourika legit G . Maw !

-- , var. CRETICUS (Boiss. FI. 0r.i. 437),=C. creticus (L., DC.

Mar. occid.-In monte Djehel I-Iatlid haud procul Mogador ! Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea prsesertim orientalis. Haec. var. deest,

ut videtur, in peninsula Iberica. Nomen Spachiauum (C. vulgaris) antiquius foret, sed cl. auctor cum

formis plurimis C. polymorphi etiam C. albidum et C. crispum in imam speciem comprehendit. Ha novissima milii videntur species probe distincta nec transitnm unquam observavi. Nomen Willkommianum nobis ideo praferenduni. Pace cel. Boissier C. villosus, L., est noinen nimis iucerturn, et ab ips0 Linnao pro parte minima catervse forma- rum affiniuin sine nota diagnostica idonea propositum, et speciem col- lectivam indicare nequit.

Formam in Djebel Hadid lectilm non sine dubio sub. var. cretico, Boiss.,

Exsicc) !

villosis.

Pr. i. 264).

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Habet fob . minora magis rotundata, valde rugosa, et enumeravi. nisi in calyce desunt pili longiores.

CISTUS n t o s s P E L I E N s I s (L. , DC. Pr. i. 265). Mar. sept.--Tanger (Schsb. spec.) ! ( Webb Herb.) ! I n regione collina

Mar. merid.-Ad radices Atlantis Majoris prope Tasseremout ! Ar. Geog. Regio Metliterranea przesertim occidentalis (inclusa Maca-

ronesia). Nisi in Grsecia et iu iusulis Cypro et Greta deest in Oriente.

inter Tanger et Tetuan ! Inter Tetuan et Ceuta !

C. S A L V I B F O L I U S (L. , DC. Pr. i. 265). Mar. sept.-Sat frequens in ditione Tingitana. Prope Tanger ! Prope

Tetuan ! " I n fruticetis totius imperii " (Schsb. in herb.) Schousboe tamen nunnisi ditiouem Tiugitanam et provinc. meridioualium partem minimam cognovit.

Prope A'in el Hadjar haud procul Mogador !

'Xar. occid.-Xogador (Lowe Cat.).

Ar. Geog. Regio Xediterrauea tota (exclusa Macaronesia).

- -, var. /3, MACROCALYX (Willk. Ic. et Descr. PI. ii. 28.

AIar. occid.-In monte Djebel IIadid ! &r. merid-In regione inferiore iltlautis Majoris in convalle Lit Nesan

c. POPULIFOLIUS (I,., DC. PT. i. 266). Mar. sept.-In monte Djebel Kebir prope Tanger! (Salzm. Emicc.) !

Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iberica, adjecta Gallia Narbonensi finitima, et ditione

C. LADANIFERUS (L., DC. Pr. i. 266). Mar. sept.-In monte Djebel Kebir prope Tanger ! (Salzm. Ezsicc.) ! Var. vel lnsus petalis immaculatis. Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iberica, cum ditione Tingitana et Gallia Jlediter-

tab. 92).

usque 1200 m. !

(Schsb. spec.)

Tingitana.

ranea finitima.

HELIANTHEMUM (Pers. Syn. ii. 75.) H. LIBANOTIS ( L . , sub Cislo ; l4'illd. Enum. 570 ; DC. Pr. i. 267, non

Cistus Libanotis, Lam., nec Dsf.), = Ilalimium rosmarinifolium (Spach, Ann. Sc. Nut . ser. 2, vi.).

Mar. sept.--Prope Cap Spartel ! AT. Geog. Peninsula Iberica e t ditio Tingitana. Forsan etiam in Si-

cilia. Olim inter anctores sententie. diverse. de vero C. Lihanotide, L. ; hodie

tamen omnibus notum est hoc esse cum stirpe Linnaeana gcnuina identicum. Nomen triviale igitur nullomodo mutandum, et nomen rosmarinifoZium (hodie pro sp. Americana Purshiana vindicatum)

344 MR. J. BALL‘S SPICILEGIUM FLORB MAROCCAEB.

verisimiliter ad Cisturn fastigiaium (Guss. Pr. F1. Sic. ii. 13) meliore jure spectat. An stirps ,Gussoniana a nostro H. Libawolide probe tliversa sit mihi adhuc incertum est.

HELIANTHEMUM UMBELLATUM (h f i l l . Dict. K O . 5 ; D c . Pr. i. 267),

Mar. sept.-In collibus saxosis prope Tetuan ! Ar. Geog. Gallia media e t meridionah. Grsecia. Peninsula Iberica.

Legi formam arcte affinern in Libano ; conf.

Spccimina Gallica plurima quae vidi inflorescentiam terrninalem nec ver-

var. VERTICILLATUM,= Cistus verticillatus, Brot.

RIarocco Tingitanus. Boiss. F1. Or. i. 439.

ticillatam ostendunt.

H. HALIMIFOLIUM (L., sub Cisto ; Witld. Enurn. 569; Dc. Pr. i. 2G8), =Halimium lepidotum (Spach, 1. c.).

Mar. sept.-’ranger (Webb Herb.) ! Nar. occid.--In parte superiore mantis Djebel Hadid ! I n sylva Culli-

tris yuadrivalvis et alibi p o p e Mogador, et inde versus Ain el IIatljar ! Ar. Geog. Europa Mediterranea occidentalis, ex Italia usque Lusita-

niam. Africa borealis. Deest in Macaronesia.

In saxosis prope Tetuan !

__ -, Var. S E P A L I S STELLATO-TOMENTOSIS, =II. mUltiflOrum (Salzm. Exsicc.; Willk. Ic . et Descr. ii. 67, tab. 10s).

Mar. scpt.--Ex fruticetis et aridis regionis Tingitanae (Schsb. spec.) be- nevole comm. cel. Cosson. (Sulzm. Ersicc. !) In monte Djebel Kebir ! ( W e b b Herb.) ! - -, var. LASIO-CALYCINUY,=H. lasio-calgcinum (Boiss. et

Reut., Diugn. P1. Or. scr. 2, i. 50),= II. hirsutissiuium (Willk. 1. c. tab. 106).

Mar. sept.--In monte Djebel Kebir p o p e Tanger ! (Boiss. et Reu.t. 1. c.). H, multijlorum e t H . lasiocalycinurn certo certius ad varietates H. hali-

mfolii rediicenda, notis nullis stabilibus distinguendas. H. multi- jlorum sape, sed non semper, foliis minoribus prseditum, gandet sepalis ex pilis longiuscule stcllatim ramosis dense obtectis. Folia in hoe uninervia, in H . halimifolio obsolete trinervia clicuntur, sed discrimen omnino fallas e t minime constans. In hac specie, u t fit in Cistis plurimis, intiurnenturn variabile. I n H . lasioculycino folia e t sepaIa pilis longis subvillosis plus minusve vestita, et indunlentom stellaturn fit rarins. Specimina nostra fere intermedia sunt set1 propiora H. la- siocalycino. Nomen hujus formae, vis pro varietate enumerandae, cl. Tliillk. perperam mutavit.

H. TUBERARIA (L., sub Cisto j N i l l . Dict. No. 10; DC. Pr. i. 270). Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Brsicc.)! (Webb Herb.) ! Djebel Kebir

Ar. Geog. Per regionem Nediterraneam occidentalem ex Dalmatia usque I n Grzcia verisimiliter errore indicatum ex

prope Tanger ! Cap Spartel! Prope Tetuan !

Nacaronesiam diffusum. Boiss. F1. Or. i. 440.

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HELEAKTHEMUM GUTTATUM(L., nib Cisto; WEZ. Diet. No. IS; DC.

Xar. sept.--Tanger (Sulzm. Emice.) ! Djebel Bebir prope Tanger !

Mar. occiti.--Caw Blanca ! AT. Geoy. Regio Mediterranea a Syria usque Nacaronesiam. Gallia

occidentalis. Forma arcte affinis in Anglia. -__ , var. MACROSEPALUM (Coss. P1. Grit. 29),=11. macro-

sepalnm ( S a l m . Emiec.), = Tuberaria macrosepala ( Willk., 2. c. tab.

Spec. ex herb. Schousboe (sub Cisto ylanduloso, Schsb.) “ in fruticetis pr. Tanger,” Leeturn benevole comm. cel. Cosson. Djebel Kebir ! (Reu t . ) . Tetuan (1S51) !

Pr. i. 270).

Cap. Spartel !

117). Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Ezsicc.) ! (Webb Herb.) !

Legi etiam prope San Roque haud procul Gibraltar ! -__ , var. INCONSPICUUM,=TI. inconspicuum (Thib. ilz Pers. Syn.

ii. 77 ; DC. Pr. i. X I ) . Nar. scpt.-Prope Tanger legit J. D. If. spec. Hispanicis QmIIinO con-

forme ! A r . G e g . Tam hzec quam Far. wucrosepalzcm in peninsula Iberica et in

ditione Tingitana ohviaz aunt. Hrec est inter typum et formam pro specie nova in Boiss. et Reut. Png.

p. 13, propositam, sub nom. H . brevipes, varietas intermedia. Charac- teres in hoc grege ex praescntia vel defectu stipularnm, cx $is longis plus minusve frequentibus, ex longitudine pedicelloriun et magnitndine petdorum et sepalarum valde lrtdibundi et idea fallaces.

H. N I L O T I C U M (L., sub Cisto ; Pers. Syn. ii. 78; DC. Pr. i. 272) . N a r . sept.-Tanger (Webb Herb.) ! Inter Tanger et Tetuan ! Xar . occid.--Cam Rlanca ! Prov. IIaha prope Mogador ! 3f ar,. merid-l’rov. Shedma ! filesfiona ! Tasseremout ! AIilIiain ! Ar. Geog. Itegio 3Iediterranea tota (inclusa IIacaronesia). -- , var. MICROCARPUY (Coss. in Bourg. Pi. €I+.; Boiss. Fl.

Nar. merid.--In saxosis aridis regionis inferiaris. Prov. Shedma prope

A r . Geoy. Varietas per reg. omnem Mediterraneam diffusa.

?Jar. merid.-In reg. subdpina Stlantis Najoris supra Arround legi es- einplaria duo 2-9-pollicaria deflorata, foliis superioribus et sepalis tomentoso-hirtis, raczmo contracto, capsula fere t1:pica sed multo mi- nore, seminibus angularibus omnino Izevibus. Verisimiliter est. hujus speciei polymorphaz forma nana.

Utrum Cistus l ed i fo lks , L., Sp. 742, foret synonymon C. nilotici, sive melius ad var. microcarpurn referri debet non satis eminet. Nomen specificum ab auctoribus posterioribus confusum hodie negligendum.

Or. i. 441).

Kin Oumast ! Nskala 1 et alibi. ’

~~ , var. ? PURILLUM.

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Heuanthemum papillare (Boiss. Voy. ESP. ii. 63, tab. 14). Mar. merid.-In saxosis aridis supra Seksaoua ! Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iberica ; Africa boreali-occidentalis.

€1. BGYPTIACUM (L. , sub Cisto ; XiZZ. Dict. No. 23 ; DC. Pr. i. 273). Mar. occid.-Legi proye Casa Blanca specimen exsiccaturn sed satis

certum ! Ar. Geoy. Per regionem %fediterranearn calidiorein (exclusa Macaro-

nesia) diffusa. Deest in Grsecia, Dslmatia et in Gallia Mediterranea. N. LIPPII (Z,., sub Cisto ; Pers. ii. 78 ; DC. Pr. i. 273). Var a (Boiss.

FL. Or. i. 443),=Cistus ellipticus (Desf. Fl. AtZ. i. 415, tab. 107),= H. rosmarinifolium, PsZ. Symb. tab. 21.

Ex spec. in Oasi iikka lecto (Coll. Zndig. &furdochaus) frustulum benevole comm. Cosson.

In herb. Kew. conservatur specimen a cll. Rein et Fritsch in Alarocco (verisimiliter in ditione Mogadorensi) lectum ; a nostro parum differt floribus et capsulis aliqnid majoribus et sepalis longius villosis.

Mar. occid.-In monte Djebel Hadid specimen unicum legi !

Ar. Geog. Oriens. Africa borealis. Sicilia.

H. CANARIENSE (Jucq. Zc. Rar. i. tab. 97, sub Cisto; Pers. Syn. ii. 78, DC. Pr. i. 274).

Nar. occid.-Legimus prope Mogador ! et Ain el Hadjar ! et in monte Djebel Hadid ! et iterum Iegi in litore Atlantico ab urbi Saffi meridiem versus !

Ar. Geog. Species propria insularurn Canariensium et terrae continen- talis proximz.

Nisi herba densius incana spec. nostra Canariensibus omnino conformia.

H . R U B E L L U M (Psl. Del. Prag. 25; Boiss. Voy. Esp.),=H. rotundi- folinm (Dun. in DC. Pr. i. 277),=Cistus nummularius (CUD. Zc. tab. 142 ; Dsf. FI, At l . i. 423, Ron L.) .

Afar. merid.- In regione media Atlantis Majoris. In convalle Amsmiz 1200-1600 m. !

Ar. Geog. Hispania ; Africa boreali-occidentalis ; Sicilia, et forma arctt affinis (H. Hymettium, Boiss. et Heldr.) in Graecia.

Specimina nostra gaudent foliis oblongo-ellipticis acntiusculis, et sistunf transitnm in N. Hyrnettium, qnod nobis mera varietas videtur.

H. LAVANDULBFOLIUM (Lam. nkt. ii. 25, sub Cisto; DC. Fl. Fr. iv

Mar. occid.-Ab urbe Mogador septentrionem versus ! In monte Djebf Inter Mogador et Shedma (G. M a w spec.) ! Agadir (CoZ,

Ar. Geog. Peniusula Iberica. Gallia Xediterranea et Corsica. Orien: Deest in Italia, Dalmatia, Africa boreal Fere semper in regione litorali occurri

820, et Prod. i. 278).

Hadid! Indig. 1871) !

hcrica boreali-occidentalis. orientali et in Macaronesis.

ME. J. BALL'S YPICILEGIUM FLORE M A R O C C ~ N ~ . 347 H. Brorssonnetii, species Canariensis ex scheda in herb. Bouchet prope

Xogador indicata, verisimiliter ad floram Naroccanam non pertinet. Broussonnet plantas p a t r k divers= in herbario sape mi=& et haec pulchra stirps in agro Mogadorensi nemini recentiorum obvia fuit.

Cisto ; Pers. Syn. ii. 78 ; DC. Pr. i. 273). Nar. merid.-In convalle Amsmiz circa 1400 m. ! Specimina nostra Hispanicis omnino conforinia nisi statura minore.

Imli t petalis al'ois ut fit in spec. Bourpanis, NO. 1074, P1. d'Espagne.

-- , var. STGCHADIFOLIUM, = H. stoechadifolium (Brot. FZ. Lus. ii. 270, sub Cisto; DC. Pr. i. 279).

Mar. merid.-In rupibus supra Scksaoua ! Distinguitnr foliis superioribus insigniter revolntis et ramis abortivis in

asillis foliorum ad fasciculos foliorum juniorum reductis, unde affinitar, aliqua, ut jam innotuit Brotero 1. c., cum H. laaandukfol io .

Specimina Maroccanis siniillima legi ohm p o p e Malaga. PetaIa vidi semper lutea.

Ar. Geog. H . glaucum, per regionem Mediterraneam occidentalem late diffusum, in Macaronesia deest. Est stirps valde ludibundn, cujns limites "gre definiendi.

~IELIANTHEMUM G L A U C U M (Can. I C . iii. 31, tab. 261, min Desf., sub

H. V I K G A T U M (Desf. Fl. At l . i. 432, sub Cisto ; Pers. Syn. ii. 79 j DC. Pr. i. 5332. Inclnsis El. rucemosum (Lam. Dict. ii. 25, sub Cisto ; Dun. in DC. Pr. i. 281), et H . pilosum (Pers. Syn. ii. 79; 1)c. Pr. i. 282, an L., suh Cisto).

Mar. merid.--Frequens ad radices Atlantis Majoris et in. convallibus calidiorihus. Tasseremont ! Ourika ! Reraya! hit Xesan usque 1400 m. ! Sektaria ! Amsmiz ! Nilhain ! Ex Prov. Vtnga (R. et Fr. spec. in herb. Kew.) !

Notre diagnosticre quibus H . racemosum et H . pilosum ab H . virgato separantur sunt adeo instabiles et ludibundae ut ne quidem varietates sistunt. Si verbis auctorum hrerernus, calyx in H. wirgafo cano-pul- verulentus pubescens, in H . piloso nervoso-striatus pilosiusculus, in H . racernoso nervoso-sulcatus violaceo-rufescens. In ditione nostra calyces srepius subglaberrimi, rarius tenuiter incano-pubescentes, vel pilosiusculi, folia angusta, plus minusve margiue revoluta, in pagina superiore viridia vel subineana, suhtus stellato-tomentosa. In speci- minibus Hispanicis et Algeriensibus H. pilosi video calyces valde variabiles ut in spec. nostris. Petala ludunt alba vel pallide rosea.

- -, var. STRICTUM, =H. strictum (Caw. Ic. iii. 31, tab. 263, sub Cisto; Pers. Syn. ii. 7 9 ; DC. Pr. i. 281),=H. virgatum, var. Ma- roccanurn, noh. MSS.

Nar. merid--Valde frequens in saxosis aridis regionis inferioris et rarius in convallibns Atlantis Najoris. Legimus in Prov. Shedma

2 c 2

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prope Ain Oumast ! in glareosis torrentis Ourika ! prope Seksaoua I et in convalle .4it Nesan ! In convalle A msmiz legi varietatem seu lusnm calyce piloso, sepalis exterioribus longioribus et acutioribns, stipulis pariter longioribus foliorum dimidiam longitudinem sub=- quantibus. Petala ex albo pallide rosea.

Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iberica. Africa boreali-occidentalis. Affinitas inter H . virgatum et H . apenninum (quocnm velut synonyma

enumeranda sunt H. puluerulentum, DC., H . polifolium: DC., et pln- rim= species ab auctoribus enumerata) tam arcta est ut vix pro txpis specificis probe distinctis haberentur.

FUMANA (Spnch, Ann. Sc, Nut. ser. 2, vi. 359).

Genus Fumana staminibus exterioribus sterilibus moniliformibus, semi- nibus anatropis raphe praditis, facile recognosccndum, et przeterea habitu proprio (in F. glutinoso minus eminente) gaudens, a celcbb. Benth. et H. f. in Gen. P1. 114, ad subgenus Helianthemi reductum est. Pace tautorum virorum vestigia auctornm recentiorum qui hoe (eodem jurequo Callianthemum et plurima genera subnaturalia) nomine proprio salutarunt secuti sumus.

F. GLUTINOSA (L., sub Cisto ; Pers. Syn. ii. 79, et DC. Pr. i. 276, sub Helianlhemo ; Boiss. FZ. Or. i. 449), = F. viscida (Spach, loc. cit . ) .

Nar. sept.-Tanger (Schsb. spec. sub C. Fumana) ! (Webb Herb.) ! In rupibus prope Tetuan 1851, et iterum 1871 !

Mar. occid.-Nogador (Lowe) ! ilin el Hadjar ! Djebel Hadid ! Nar. merid.--Sat frequens ad radices Atlantis Najoris et in convallibus

calidioribus. Nesfioua ! Ourika ! Ait Mesan usque 1400 m. ! Seksaoua ! Amsmiz !

Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea omnis (exclusa Nacaronesia).

-- , var. vIRIDIS,=Helianthemum viride (Ten. Pr. FZ. Neap. p. 31).

Mar. sept.-In rupibus prope Cap. Spartel ! Inter Tanger et Tetuan ! In monte Beni Hosinar supra Tetuan !

Optimo consilio cl. Spach plurimas s. d. species nnllis notis stabilibus dignoscendas in unam reduxit, sed minus bene nomen triviale Lin- nSenum antiquius et satis aptum mutavit. Verum est in var. air& faha szpius subglaberrima, laxiora et longiora quam in ty'po; sed pe- dicelli semper plus minusve glanduloso-viscidi, et forma intermedia: non desunt. Specimina Schousbceana Tingitana qua: benevolentia: cel. Cosson debeo inter typum et genuinum H. viride, Ten. transiturn prsbent.

FUMANA LBVIPES (L., sub C i s t o ; Pers. Syn. ii. 76, et DC. Pr. i.

Mar. sept.-Tetuan ! (Webb Herb.) ! 275, sub HeZiantRe,izo; Spach, Zoc. ci t . ) .

In monte Beni I-Iosmar !

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ll'ar. merid.-In rupibus supra Seksaoua ! Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea occidentalis (exclusa Nacaronesia).

F. C A L Y C I N A , Clauson,=F. arbnscula (Ball, Journ. Bot. 1873,300) = Fumana Spachii, var. calycina (Coss. Index P1. Mar. 14).

Frutex humilis, ramosissimus, intricatus, trunco demum diametro pol- licari; ramuli recti, rigidi, foliacei ; folia alterna, coriacea, infima ovalia, vix lineam longa, superiora ovali-ohlonga circa 3 liueas attin- gentia, suprema brevissima, cum ramulis junioribus puberula; flores in quovis ramulo pauci (2-4) ; pedicelli subpollicares, demum recur- vati ; sepala exteriora (epicalyx) brevia, linearia, scabrida, interiora membranacea, carnea, ex costis 3 viridibus hirtulis et nervo 1 utrinque non costato lineata ; petala (noudum expansa) calyci cquilonga, sa- turate flava ; semina maxima, in quavis capsula sex, pallida, lcvia, oculo arniato minute granulata.

Ex- emplaria duo, jam deflorata, legimus in glareosis ad torrentem Ourika (circ. 1000 m.) ! et alterum, nonduui florens, in couvaile Ait Mesan (circ. 1300 m.) !

Planta Atlan- tica a nobis visa mnlto major est quam spec. quae postea vidi in herb. Cosson, et mihi a F. Spachii Europca omnino diversa visa est. Me- lios edoctus ex spec. intermediis Blgeriensibus nuper scrutatis hodie haec stirps insignis sicut subspecies F. Spachii enumeranda mihi videtur. Moncnte eel. Cosson F. calycinam legit Balansa in sylva CuF Zit& haud procul Mogador.

Nar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis Majoris admodum rara.

Semina illis F. vulgaris ter quaterve longiora et latiora.

Kascitur etiam in Algeria.

V I O L A E I E E (DC. l?Z. Pr. iv. 801).

VIOLA (L. Gen. 1007).

V. ODORATA (L. , DC. Pr. i. 296). Mar. sept.--Tanger (Webb Herb.) ! Tetuan (G. Maw) ! Mar. merid.--In umbrosis irrigatis urbis Marocco ! Ar. Geog. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea tota (inclusa Macaro-

nesia). Sibiria. Forma orientalis montaua V. suavis, M. B. ; a typo aliquid recedit, sed sicut varietas a cel. Boissier (Fl. Or. i. 459) enu- meratur. Specimina nostra ex urbe 3Iarocco carent flore et fructu ; forsan referunt varietatem rnaderensis (Lowe, Man. F1. Mad.).

V. ARBORESCENS (L., DC. Pr. i. 299), =V. suberosa (Deg. Fl. Atl. ii. 313).

Mar. sept.-Tanger (Schsb. spec.) ! In rupibus maritimis haud procul Cap. Spartel! I n rupibus calcareis prope Tetuan ! I n monte Beni Hosmar supra Tetnan (exemplaria pulcherrima sesquipedalia et ultra) !

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Mar. occid.-Secus rivulum Oued Kseh p r o p Nogador ! ubi eani jam legerat Ualansa.

Ar. Geog. Rezio Ncditerranea occidentalis (exclusa Macaronesia) ; prs- diligit rupes zonE subIitoralis.

Lndit foliis latioribus angustioribusve, margine integerrimis vel denticu- latis vel serratis, sed hze not= niinis inconstantes et veras varietates non sistunt.

In monte Djehel Hadid !

Confer DC. Prod. 1. c.

VIOLA TEZENSIS, nob., = V. modesta ( B ~ l l in Journ. Bot. 1873, 300; non Fzl. Ill. PI. Taur. p. 41).

E grege V. tricoloris, L., et verisimiliter juxta V. Heldreichianam, Boiss. collocauda, sed notis plnrimis distincta. Folia inferiors ot-ata, superiora lanceolata in petiolum attenuata, profunde crenatn vel crenato-dentata, prsesertim margine et nerro medio hirtula. Stipulae Y. HeEd?-eichiance, ohlongo-lineares, integrae vel hasi externa lacinula auctc, foliis h e - viores. Pedicelli glaberrimi, apicem versus bibracteolati. Sepala viridia, oblonga, margine clliolata, czeterum glahra. Petala calycem vix sequantia. Calcar brevissimum.

Mar. merid.-Exemplar unicum in monte Djehel Tezah alt. circiter 2400 m. detexi !

P O L I G A L E B (Juss. Ann. Mm. xiv. 386).

POLYGALA ( A . Gem. 851). P. RUPESTRIS (Pourr. Act. Toul. iii. 325),=P. saxatilis (Desf. Fl. Atl .

Mar. occid.-Afn el Hadjar ! Mar. merid.-ln regione inferiore et media Atlantis Biajoris, et rarius in

planitie. I n conralle Ait Nesan 1400-1800 m. ! In convalle Bmsmiz circ. 1500 m.! In monte Djebel Tezah circ. lSOOm.! Exprov. Shedma specimen retulerunt c11. Rein et Fritsch !

ii. 128, tab. 175 ; DC. Pr. i. 324).

Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea occidentalis (exclusa Macaronesia).

P. ROSEA (Desf. FI. AtZ. ii. 128, tah. 176; DC‘. Pr. i. 324),=P. Preslii (Spreng. Byst. Veg. v. 531) = P. nicrensis (Rissoex Koch, Syn. i. 98).

Mar. sept.-Pr. Tanger in monte Djeht.1 Kebir versus Cap. Sl~artel! I n rupibus p r o p Tetuan! I n monte Beni Hosmar ! ubi eam jam legerat P. B. Webb.

Ar. Geog. Per regionem Nediterraneam, imprimis occidentalem, late diffusa. Deest in Macaronesia, sed insulas Azoricas incolit.

Icon Fontanesiana supra citata minus bona, sed de identitate stirpis vix dubitandum. Confer tamen Boissier, F1. Or. i. 475.

P. MOXSPELIACA (L., DC. Pr. i. 325). Mar. sept.-In regione collina prope Pondak, inter Tanger et Tetuap ! AT. Geog. Itegio Ncditerranea omnis (czclusa Flacilronesia!, sed potius

infrcqnens.

MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEGIUM FLOEE MAR000bNE. 351 POLYGALA WEBBIANA (Coss. in Bull. SOC. Bot. Fr. xx. 240). Descriptionem cel. auctoris przferre juvat. “ Plauta perennis, ut videtur a basi ramosa, ramis diffusis, teretiuscutis,

inferne denudatis pulvinis foliorum delapsorurn tuberculatis, superne dense foliosis, pilis arcuato-ascen.dentibus dense puhescentibus. Folia eodem modo ac rami sed parcius pubescentia, oblonga, plana, in petiolum contracta, acutiuscnla vel inferiora obtusa haud mucronata. Flores majusculi, in axillis foliorum superiorum in racemos brevissi- mos cymiformes 2-3-joros vel sapissime abortu unijloros dispositi, bracteolis 3 membranaceis obovatis amplis deciduis ad basim pedi- celli involucruin efformantibus suffulti. Sepala omnia citius decidua, glabrescentia, 3 exteriora albitla meinbranacea vix herbacea quorum superius majus fornicatum subsaccatum et duo inferiora planiuscula ovata, 2 interiora petaloidea alba vel pallide purpurascentia corollam subaequantia obovata obtusa iuferne angustata. Petala 3, inter se et cum vagina staminali at? tertiam partem superiorem in tubum superne fissum coalita, duorum lateralium limbo inaequilatero concavo-subcari- nato pillidc purpurascente apice obtuso, inferioris limbo aequilatero concavo-carinato genitalia amplectente apice truncato i n carina pro- cul ab apice crista purpurascente in lobos nonnullos oblon.90~ latius- culos haud incrassatos divisa donato superne pallide lutescente. Ovariuni superne basi glandula stipatum. Capsula (immatura tantum visa) membranaceo-carnosula, a latere compressa, obovata, apice mar- ginata.”

Mar. sept.-Florentem legimus in monte Beni Hosmar supra Tetuan ubi eam ohm legit P. B. Webb! ; et iterum spec. 2 detexi in rupibus juxta urbem Tetuan I In monte Djebel Moussa supra fretum Her- culis eminente legit cl. Blackmore.

Monente cel. Cosson :--“P. Webbiana, floribus magnis, in racemos axil- lares 1-3-floros dispositis, sepalis deciduis, superiore fornicato snbsac- cato, crista carinali petali inferioris parce et grosse lobata, ad sectionem Chamabuxus pertinet.-A P. Munhyana (Boiss. et Reut. Diagn. P1. Or.’ ser. 2, v. 50) differt ramis teretiusculis, non acute angulatis, dense pubescentibus, non glabrescentibus, foiiis haud mucronatis, petalis lateralibus haud truncato-obtusis.-A P. Chamcebuxo, L., cui valde affinis, distincta indumento ramorum densiore, foliis minus cori- aceis haud mucronatis, petalis lateralibus haud truncato-obtusis, lobis cristae tenuibus planiusculis, non incrassatis subcorculatis.”

Facie simillima est P. Chamabuxo, var. rhodopterce, stirpi Alpium Vene- tarum solenni, sed in hac, przeter notas supra indicatas. sepala in- teriora saturate purpureo-rosea, petala lateralia apice lutescentia; durn in P. Webbiana, sepala iuteriora in viva pailide pnrpurascentia, petala lateralia laete purpureo-rosea. Folia in P . Chamcebuxo longiora, angustiora, nec sensim in petiolum attenuata.

P . Chamceburus est Alpium Europe (latiore sensu) incola, unde i n eri-

,

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cetis Bavtrria: e t per Pannoniam usque Transsylvaniam, nemon per Apenninum Liguriz in Mpes hpuanas se protendit. Deest in penin- sula Iberica et in Pyren;eis et in Europa austro-orientali. Localitas in clncatu Lucemburgensi verisimiliter spuria.

POLYGALA BALANSB ( C O S S . in Bal. Pl . M w o c . 1867, et in Bull. &e. Bot. 2%. xx. 24040).

Sequitur descriptio Cossoniana:-‘6Fmtez erectns, multieaulis, dumomsy rlivarieatim ramosus, ramis rigidis spinescentibus, pulvinis foliorum delapsorum tuberculatus, sub lente punctato-pubcrulus. Folia parva, oblongo-linearia, concavo, cito decidua. Racema’ breves, 3-4-flori, scepius abortu l-2-jori . Sepala ornnia c i t i ~ s deci&u, glabrescentia, 3 exteriora subherbacca margine purpurea, quorum superius fornicatum subsaccatum et duo inferiora planiuscula ovata ; 2 interiora petaloidea purpurea corollam subzquantia ovata, infcrne ilngnstata, superne margine involuto apiculata. l’etalu 3, inter se et cum vagina stami- nali ad quartam partem superiorem in tubum superne fissum coalita, tluorum lateralium limbo inzquilatero coucavo-carinato pallide pur- pureo ; inferioris limbo latiore qui la te ro concavo-earinato genitalia amplectente, apice emarginato, in carina infra apicem crrista indivisa irregulariter plicata donato, superne luteo. Ovariurn superne basi glandula stipatum. Capsula memhranacco-carnosula, a latere com- pressa, su5orbictalata, apice via r e k s a , angnsta, marginata, venis con- centricis parce ramosis donata. Semen nigrescens, pilosum, carun- cula triloba lobis laterahbus seminis quartain partem inferiorein attin- gentibus.”

Mar. merid.-Species per clivum septentrionalem Atlantis Xajoris hu- cusqne esploratum in saxosis aridis et rupestribus iisque 1800 m. s. m. frequentissima. Primus eam detexit cl. Balansa anno 1867. Lcgi- mus pr. Tasseremout ! Ourika ! Seksaoua! Tu convallibus Ait Praesan ! ilmsmiz ! et alibi vidimus.

Stirps insignis ssepe 6-8-petlalis. Ramis teretibus apice spinescentibus Spartiurn scopurium interclam refert.

Iudividua minora habitu ct facie stirpem Sinaiticam P. spiuescens, Decaisne, miro modo simulant etsi characteres valde diversi. Species nostra structura floris et fructus ad sectionem Cdmnrebuxus pertinet.

~ i i A K l i E X I A C E - I @ (Sf.-Hi7. Mkm. PEae. Cent. p. 39).

FRANXEXIA (L. GOZ. 415).

Mogador ! P. PULVERULENTA (L., DC. Pr. i. 319). 3Iar. occitl.-Casa Blanca ! \[ar. merid-In saxosis aridis Selisaoua ! A r . Geog. llcgio 3Iediterranca omnis inclusa Jlacaroricsia. Senegalla.

Songaria. Olnn in Anglia meritlionali.

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FRANKENIA HIRSUTA (L., B o i S S . n. or. i. 780; Schousb. Gew. LV71arok, 168). Inclusis F. l m i s (L., DC. Pr. i. 349 ; Schousb. Gew. Marok. 167). e t F. intermedia (DC. eodem loco).

Mar. sept.-Tanger specimen (cui scheda F. Zeois, L.) ex herb. Schousboe benevole communicavit cel. Cosson ! e t eandem formam, foliis basi ciliolatis caeterum glaberrimis, legimus prope Cap. Spartel! et prope Tetuan legit T e b b ! Formam foliis tenuiter tomentellis legi prope Tetuan anno 1851 !

Mar. occid.-Casa Blanca in litore Atlantico, formam foliis suhtonien- tellis ! et eandem legimus p o p e Mazagan ! RZogador (Schsb. 1. c.).

Optimo consilio cel. Boissier, 1. c., Frankenias fere onines perennes regionis Mediterranere sub F. hirsuta, L., reduxit. Pace tanti viri varictates a et 6 sola praesentia vel absentia tomenti tenuissimi innixas separare nequeo, dum in eodem loco specimina utriusque formze semel crescunt. Formas sequentcs a typo remotiores pro speciebus rite dis- tinctis habuerim, sed charactcres nimis instabiles sunt e t form= inter- mediw non desunt.

Ar. Geog. F. hirsuta, L., sensu latiore est species late diffusa per oras htlanticas Enropre et Africae, ex Britannia ad Cap. Bon. Spei, et per totam regionem Rlediterraneam. I n Europa media deest, sed terras continentales Asia: temperatre non fngit.

-- , var. VELUTINA, nob.=F. velutina (DC. Pr. i. 350). Stirps insignis differt ab affinibus statura majore, floribus majoribus

liulclire roseis, herba tota velatino-canescente ; sed specimina inter- media in litore Atlantico lecta h a m cum typo conjungunt.

Mar. oecid.-Legimus in rupibus insulz Mogador ! verisitniliter eodem loco uhi eam primus detexit Broussonnet et postea legerunt Schousboe et Balansa. Specimina fere intermedia legimus inter hanc et F. inter- mediam, DC., prope Sa& ! et pi-. Casa Blanca !

- 3-, var. 6, REVOLUTA, Boiss. 1. c.,=F. revoluta (Forsk. FZ. ACg.-arab. p. 75; UC. Pr. i. 350),=F. corymbosa (Desf. Fl. At l . i. 315, tab. 93; DC. Pr. i. 350).

Mar. merid.-In planitie aridissima inter k i n Oumast et Sheshaoua ! et iterum prope Rlisra ben Kara !

Specimina nostra ludibunda. Nonnulla omnino similia spec. ex Ajan- que prov. Murcia (Boargeau, PI. d'Esp. no. 2315), quae F. FVebbii (Boiss. et Rcut. Pug. 16), et aliis a me olim lectis pr. Almeria et prope Chiclnna. Alia propiora snnt F. pallidre (Boiss. et Rcut. Diagn. p1. Or. ser. 2, i. 61), qna: milii lusus levis nec Vera varietas videtur.

I.', thymifofolia (Desf. FI. Atl. i. 316; DC. Pr. i. 350) a Schousboe indi- catur in arenosis maritimis prope Mogador (Schousb. Gew. M w d . 16;) ; nos lion vidimns et f l o r ~ nostra: videtur dubia civis. HZC forsan velut snbspecies enumeranda est. Facies sat. singularis et

354’ MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEGIUM FLOEE NAROCCANE.

characteres niinus variabiles quam in affinibns. videtur F. Reuteri (Boiss. Diagn. PI. Or. ser. 2, i. 60).

Hnjns vxr. levis mihi

C A S Y O P H P L L E Z (Juss. Gan. 299).

VELEZIA (L. Gen. 4147).

V. R I G I D A (I,., DC. Pr. i. 387) . Mar. oceid-Agatlir (CoEZ. Indig. lS7l) ! Ar. Geoq. Regio Mediterranea omnis (exclusa Macaronesia).

DIANTHUS (L. Ben. 565). D. ATTENUATUS (Sm. Trans. Linn. SOC. ii. 301 ; DC. Pr. i. 358),=D.

lusitanus (Brot. FZ. Lusit. ii. 177). Mar. merid-In regione media et superiore Atlantis Majoris. In con-

valle Kit Mesan usque in jug0 Tagherot a 1800 m. ad 3000 m.! Specimina ex montibus Djebel Ouensa et Djebel Afougueur ( CoZE. Indig. IbruJbim,) benevole conim. cel. Cosson sub “ D . Zusitanicus, Brot.”

Ar. Geoq. Peninsula Iberica. Pyrenaei Orientales. Atlas Maroccanus. D. Eusitanus, a Brotero Zoc. cit. bene descriptus, est saepius forma mul-

ticaulis, caulibus pluries furcatis, petalis profunde inciso-serratis basi pilosiusculis, dim stirps Pyrenaica (D. attenuutus typicus) habet ramos pauciores breviores 1-2-floros, petala crenata seu leviter dentata im- berbia. Sed h z note a solo et temperie pendent. Yidi ex Pyrenaeis orientalibus specimina nullomodo a D. Zusitano distinguenda. Nostra sperimina ex convalle Kit Mesan potius ad formam vulgarem Pyre- naicam ; contra quae debeo humanitati cel. Cosson ad formam Lusi- tanicam propius accednnt.

D. VIRGINEUS (L. Sp. PI. 590; Gr. et God. Fl. Fr, i. 238, non DC. Pi-. i. 361).

Mar. sept.--2 Specimen nondum florens legi in mpibus pr. Tetuan veri- similiter huc referendnm !

Mar. merid.-In regione media Atlantis Majoris. I n convalle Kit Mesan a 1600 m. ad 2000 m. ! In monte Djebel Tezah spec. legit J. D. H. !

Ar. Geoq. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea occidentalis (exclusa Macaronesia).

D. siculus (Psl. Del. Prag. p. 59 Mar. occid.-hter Mogador et Kin el Hadjar ! I n monte Djebel Hadid

Guss. FZ. Sic. i. 479).

(forma calycibus coloratis). Agadir (Coll. Indig. lS71)!

in herb. K m . ) !

Inter Mogador et Shedma, G. 1Cfuw, sp. !

Mar. merid.-In rupestribus supra Seksaoua! Ourika ( R . et Fr. spec.

Ar . Geoq. Regio Mediterranea occidentalis, imprimis in calidioribus. Genus omne deest in Macaronesia. Specimina classica Panormitana et

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qua legi in Hispania sunt omnia valde variabilia quoad calpcem et squarnas externas plus miuosve elongatas, chartaceas vel hcrbaceas, et specimina ex ditione itlogadorensi non minus ludibunda sunt. Q u z legimus pr. Seksaoua propiora D. virgineo. An D. siculus pro varie- tate vel subspecie meliore jare enumBandus sit judicet monographus in hoc genere valde desideratus.

DIAKTHUS GADITANUS (Boiss. Diagn. P1.Or. ser. 2, i. 67),=D. Home- manni ( S Q . ~ Z ~ . Bxsic., non Ser. in DC. Pr. i. 362),=1). Schousboei

Mar. sept.-Tanger (Schsb. herb. sub ‘‘ D . glaucus ”), Coss. spec. ! (Salzm. Exsicc. in herb. Kew.) ! In monte Beni Hosmar supra Tetuan nondum florentia, sed verisimiliter huc referenda, specim. 2 legimus !

(Coss. MSS.).

AT. Geog. IIispania Gaditana et Marocco Tingitanus. Affinis ut videtnr D. Libcschitziano, Ser.

TUNICA (Scop. 31. Cam. i. 300). T. COMPRESSA (Desf. FI. Atl. i. 313. tab. 97, et DC. Pr. i. 354, sub Gyp-

Mar. merid.-Sat frequens in planitie et in calidioribus reg. inferioris In convalle

sophila ; Fisch. et nley. Ind. Sem.).

Atlantis Majoris. Amsmiz, circ. 1400 m. !

Ain Oumast ! Mskala ! Seksaoua !

Ar. Geog. Africa boreali-occidentalis.

T. PROLIFERA (L., et DC. Pr.i. 355, sub Dianthu; Scop. F1. Carn. i.

Mar. merid.-In regione media Atlantis Majoris. I n convalle Kit Mesan

Ar. Geog. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea (inclusa Macaronesia), Orientem versus vix ultra Byzantium se

300).

circ. 1500 m. !

sed rara in calidioribus. protendit.

I n monte Djebel Tczah usque 2100 m. !

SAPONARIA (L. Gelz. 584).

S. VACCARIA (L., DC. Pr. i. 365). Mar. merid.-In distr. Mesfioua haud procul urbem Marocco spec. uni-

cum legit J. D. H.! Ar. Geog. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea omnis (inclusa Nacaro-

nesia). In regionibus alienis, e. g. Sihiria Altaica et India orientali, verisimiliter cum seminibns iutrodncta.

SILENE (L. Gen. 772 ; Rohrbach, Monog. Sil.). S. INFLATA (Sm. FZ. Brit. ii. 292; DC. Pr. i. 368),=S. cucubalus

Mar. sept.-Tanger! In monte Beni Hosmar pr. Tetuan ! Prope Tetuan

Mar. occid.-Casa Blanca !

(Wi6. Prim. Werth, 211 ; RoArb. Sil. 84).

(1551)! Agadir (Coil. Indig. 1871) !

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Mar. merid.-Xilhsin ! formam foliis angustioribus legimus in con- valle Bit Nesan, alt. 1200-1600 m. !

Ar. Geog. Europa media et borealis. Regio Mediterranea omnis (in- clusa Macaronesia). Asia temperata. India orientalis. In America boreali introducta.

Petalis brevissimis calycem vix -- , var. RUBRIFLORA, nob. excedentibns saturate rubellis.

Mar. sept.-In sepibus p o p e Tanger ! Komen triviale ab oninibus fere botanicis recqitum cl. Rohrbach infauste

mutarit. Si solo antiquit,atis jure legarnur, 8. vulgaris erit. Nomeu Behen vulgaris (Wench. Meth.) est enim Wibeliauo pluribus annis antiquius.

S. DISTICHA ( WiZZd. Enu.m. 476 j Rohrb. Sil. 96),= S. parvifolia ( O t t h in DC. P r . i. 376, non Zea, in Poir. Dict . Suppl.).

Mar. sept. -Specimen ex herb. Schousboe in monte Djebel Kcbir pr. Tanger lectum sub “S. hirsuta” Schsb. herb., berievole comm. Cosson.

Ar. Geog. Algeria. Ins. Baleares. Ditio Tingitana.

S. G A L L I C A (L., DC. Pr. i. 371 ; Rohrb. Sil. 96). Mar. sept.-Tanger (SaZzm. Ersicc.) ! Cap. Spartel! Inter Tanger e t

Mar. occid.-Casa Glanca ! -_. , var. MINOR, magis pilosa, = S. sardoa, Moris. ? hlar. merid.-iilesfioua haud procul urbem Marocco ! Haec est verisimiliter S. Zusitanica (L. Sp. P1. i. 416). Ar. Geog. Species verisimiliter Europze m e d k et australis indigena,

per totam ferc orbem iutroducta et facta spontaiiea ; ex cceli et soli diversitate forinze plurimae enatre pro speciebus distinctis ah auctori- bus deseriptre.

S. CERASTOIDES (L., DC. PT. i. 372 ; Rohrb. Sil. 38), var. ANOMALA

(Ball , Journ. Bot. 1873, 301). Habitu et seminum structura typo omnino conformis, sed insigniter

differt calyce subevenio, nervis in parte calycis superiore obscure ana- stomosantibus, et filamentis basi puberulis.

Tetuan !

Mar. merid.-Prope Mzouda ! Porsan melius cognita pro specie diversa habenda. Ar . Geog. Species per regionem. Mediterraueam (exclusa Macaronesia)

dispersa. 8. Giraldii (Guss. F1. Inar. 36), quae gautlct seminibus et calyce S. gal-

Zica et filamentis glabris S. cerastoidis, mihi videtur varietas prioris, nec cum S. cerastoide adsocianda.

S. TRIDENTATA (Desf. Fl. A t l . i. 349 ; DC.- Pr. i. 371 ; Rohrb. Sil . 99). Mar. merid.-Amsmiz ad radices Atlantis Majoris !

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Ar. Geog. Africa boreali-occidentalis. Peninsula lberica. Rfacaronesia. Priori similis sed ut videtur hene distiucta species, floribus subsessilibus,

calyce ex nervis eminentibus eximie rostato, fructifero ore coiitracto dentibus longis diverpentibus, capsula subscssili globosa longe ros- trata, nec, ut in S. cerastoidi, ovoidea carpophoro brevi falcrata et rostro brevi przedita.

SILENE KOCTURNA (L., DC. P r . i. 372; Rohrb. Sil. 100). Mar. merid.-Hinc inde in regione inferiore et in convallihus calidiori-

bus Atlantis Majoris. In convalle Ait Mesan circ. 1300 m. ! Prcpe bfzouda ! Ourika (R. et Ft. spec. i n herb. Kew.)! Seksaoua (J . D. H.)!

-_ -, p, PARVIFLOKA ( O t t h in DC. Pr. 2. c.) ,= var. micrantha (JVilZk. Ic. et Desc. i. 69, tab. 50),=var. y, permixta (Rohrb. 1. c.), = S . permixta (Jord. Pug. PI. Nov. 32), = S. mutabilis (L. Sp. R. 596)?

h'lar. merid.-Tasseremout ! A.r. Geog. Species per regionem hlediterraneam (inclusa Macaronesia)

Var. nostra e tvar. brachypetala (Rohrb. 1. c.) verisimiliter per totam late diffusa.

aream inveniendse.

In America borcali advena.

S. decipiens (Ball in Journ. Bat. 1873, 300). Proxima S. m c t u r n e , cui facie similis ; differt tamen pedicellis parce

glandnlosis vix viscidulis, calyce frnctifero ex nervis fusco-viridibus costato, dentibus erecto-patentibus capsulam superantibus, ejus dia- metrum aequantibus, petalis capsulam vix superantibus, lamina brevi atrorubente, seminibus minimis dorso vix' canaliculatis.

Mar. occid.-Legimus in arenosis prope Casa Rlanca ! Mar. merid.-Specimen incompletum sed cseteris plane conforme legi

Stirps singularis calyce et seminibus a S. nocturna nimis diversa ut pro prope Amsmiz ad radices Atlantis, alt. circ. 1100 m.!

varietatc haberetur.

S. O B T U S I F O L I A (Willd. Enum. p. 473; DC. Pr. i. 374 ; Rohrb. Sil. 102),=S. colorata (Schousb. ex Horn. H . Hafn. i. 412; DC. Pr. i. 374, n0?7. Poir.).

hlar. sept.-In arcnosis pr. Tanger! In arcnosis maritimis inter Tetuan et Ceuta !

Ar. Ge0.g. Peninsula Ibcrica. hfacaronesia. Africa boreali-occidentalis. Rabitat etiam in Zgypto inferiore (ex Boiss. F1. Or. i. 593).

S. I ~ I R S U T A ( L a g . khr. de Cienc. 1805, 212; Rohrb. Sil. 102, non Poir. p'oy.),=S. hirsutissima (Otth in DC. Pr. i. Yi2), var. TUBER-

Mar. sept.-In monte Djebel Kebir pr. Tanger die i 3 Jun. 1871, flo- rentem et fructiferam legi ! Ex eodem monte specimina seminibus

C U L A T A , ?ZOb.

358 MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEQIUM FLORB MAROCCANB.

nondum maturis a b. Schousboe lecta (S. pilosn, Schsh. herb.) bene- vole communicavit cel. Cosson. Eandem varietatem, nisi fallor, sistit S. hispida, Salzm. Exsicc. Tingitana.

Mar. occid.-Specimina jam dcflorata legi prope Casa Blanca (Apr. 22, 1671) seminibus spec. nostris Tingitanis omnino conformibus.

Haec varietas speciminibos typicis S. hirsute q u a in Hispania legi et pluries hahui omnin.0 conformis est, nisi seminibus dorso e t praesertim margine tuberculatis, facie paululum depressis nullomodo excavatis. Speciminibus plurimis Hispanicis accurate scrutatis transitum nullum detexi ; dcmum specimen S. hirsutce prope Malaga a Rambur lectum semina nostris valde accedentia mihi prabuit. Semina in genere Silene notas optimas diagnosticas inter species affines prahuerunt, sed vis variativa naturae, vita socia inseparabilis, etiam in seminum strnctura se palam facit.

Utrum S. hirsuta, Lag., a S. vespertinu (Retz. Obs. Bot. iii. 31 ; Rohrh. Sil. 95, non auctornm plurimorum) probe distincta sit est mihi res valde dubia. Pace cl. Rohrhacb inter sernina utriusque speciei clis- crimen vix ullum invenies, nec notae differentiales ex inflorescentia allata satis constautes. Calyces dentes in S. vespertinu supra cap- sulam contracti forsan ad speciem dignoscendam satis valent. S. ves- pertinu, Retz, ab auctoribus fere omnibus cum specie omnino diversa (S. colorata, Poir.) confusa, a Rohrbach loc. cit. suo loco restituta fuit. Hujus synonyma sunt S. hirsuta (Poir. Voy. ii. 163), S. hispida (Dsf. F1. Atl. i. 348), S. bellidifolin (Jacq. Hort. Vind., non Pourr.), e t S. sabuletorum, Dub., non Lk.

S. hirsuta genuina est peninsula Ibericz civis, forma: affiues in Italia calidiore et Graecia et in Africa boreali ohvia snut.

SILENE PSAMMITIS (Link in Sprrng. Now. Prov. p. 39), = S. villosa (Boiss. Voy. Esp. ii. 90, non aliorum), z S. lasiostgla (Boiss. Diagn. PI. Or. ser. 1, viii. 79).

Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Ezsicc.)! Ar. Geog. Species propria peninsulae Ihericae et ditionis Tiugitanze.

S. COLORATA (Pair. Voy. ii. 163; Rohrb. Sil. 114, non W., nec Schoush , nec DC. Pr. i. 374):=S. bipartita (Desl: FI. Atl. i. 352, e t Willk. Ic. et Descr. i. 45, tab. 3O),=S. sericea (Guss. et auct. plurim., non All.),=S. vespertina (Rchb. Ic. Fl. Germ. tab. 279, et auct.mult., non Retz., nec BO~SS. VOY.).

Bfar. sept.-Tanger ! (Sabm. E X S ~ C C . sub 8. vespertiau) ! Inter Tetuan e t Tanger ! Prope Tetuan (1651 et iterum 1871) !

afar. occid.-hope Mogador ! Ain el IIadjar ! Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea omnis (iuclusa IriIacaronesia). -~ , var. L A S I O C A L Y X (Soy. W. et God. Sil. Alg. p. 26, sub

Mar. occid.-In arenosis maritimis propc Mazagan ! S. bipartita).

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SILENE SETACEA (Viv. FI. Lib. 23; Roh~b. Sil. 105, Otth), = S. colorata, var. angustifolia, nob. olim.

E/lar. merid.-In regione inferiore pr. Mesfioua! Ourika! Sektana (R. et Fr. spec. in herb. Kezu.) !

Accedit ad S. coloratam var. p, decumbens, Rohrb. 1. c.,=S. decumbens ( I h . Ceut. i. 75); sed in S. setaceefolia omnia tenuialinearia, vel infima lineari-oblongs,, caulis tenuis e basi ramosus, tota planta pube tenui adspersa. S. coloratce affinis et post eam enumeranda.

Ar. Geog. In regione desertorum ex Mesopotamia et Palaestina per Africam borealem interiorem diffusa.

S. GLAUCA (Pourr. El. H . Matr. 1803; Lag. Gen.et Sp. p. 15; Rohrb. Sil. 117),=S. secundiflora (Otth in DC. Pr. i. 375),=S. ambigua, Canibess. in Soy. W. et God. Sil. Alg. 04).

Synonyma alia plurima in Rohrb. 1. c. Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Exsicc., sub S. decumbens, j d e Willk. Ic .

et Descr., et Rohrbach, 1. c.). Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iberica. Florae Maroccanz duhia civis.

Algeria et forsan ager Tingitanus. Salzmann hanc speciern legit prope

Malaga et forsan inter plantas suas Tingitanas specimina nonnulla commiscuit. Qui series Salzmannianas habuerunt plurimi botanici hanc a Tingide nunquam viderunt, et ager Tingitanus a multis bota- nophilis perlustratus speeiem hanc nemini post Salzmann obtulit.

S. APETALA (WiZId. Sp. PI. ii. 307; DC. Pr. i. 369; Bohrb. Sit.

Mar. sept.-Prope Tetuan ! Mar. merid.-Prov. Shedma ! Sheshaoua ! Mesfioua! Seksaoua ! Ar. Geog. In regione Mediterranea calidiore ex Affghanistan usque Maca-

ronesiam late diffusa. Deest in Europa in reg. inter Atticam et His- pauiam Murcicam, et in Africa boreali inter Mare Rubruin et Mos- taganem.

S . CORRUGATA (Bell in Joum. Bot. 1873, 301),=S. cananensis ( WiZZd. in Spreng.) ?

E collo radicis ramosissima, diffusa, glandnloso-pilosa ; folia inferiors spathulato-acurninata, superiora lanceolata ; pedicelli calycem demnm aequantes ; bracteie 2 inzequales, major herbacea, minor snbsetacea ; flores distantes, ante anthesin nutantes ; calyx membranaceus, viridi- striatus, nervis parallelis, basi truncatus, vix umbilicatus ; petala car- nea, biloba, ungue quam calyx longiori ; carpophorum CapsuIa Zqui- longum ; semina fusca, sat profuntle canalicnlata, dorso corrugata.

Mar. merid.-In regione media Atlantis Majoris ; Kit Mesan ! circa l7.50 m. !

Affinis Silene pseudo-Rtocion, Dsf., a pl. n o s h differt petalis integris, seminibus multo majoribus viu canaliculatis, calycis tub0 longiore. Habitu propior est S. pendula, structura Omnino diversa.

1 IS).

Nomen verisimiliter falsum.

360 M U . J . BALL'S SPICILEOIUM FLOlIA3 JIAROCCIAB: .

Monente cel. Cosson spec. nostra ad S. Canuriensent (Willd. in Spreng. Neue Entd. iii. 60; Rohrb. Sil. 194, non Otth in DC. Pr. i. 372, re- ferenda sunt, et eandem plantam legit Balansa, anno 1867, in monte Djebel Haid, et secus rivulum Oued Kseb prope Mogador. T'ix dubito specimen in herb. Willd. (NO. 8633) a Broussonnet communi- catum ex ditione Mogadorensi ortum esse, et errore schcdse ex in- sula Teneriffa prodisse fertur. Durn nomen Canariensis incertum et falsum videtur, plantam enumeravi sub nomine triviali a me proposito. Judicent magistri scientiae nostrse. Icon Webbiana (Phyt. Can. tab. 18) minime exacta vix ad plantam nostram referenda est.

-- - , var. ADUSTA,=S . adusta (Ballin Journ. Bot. 1. c.). Proxima przcedenti et pro subspecie a me oliin edita.

Plaiita pnmila, erecta, pauciflora ; differt insuper a S. corrugata foliis angustioribus, bracteis subrequalibus setaceis, petalis albidis, magis profunde bilobis, seminibus (non onmino matnris) pallide luteo-fuscis minus profunde canaliculatis, in fossa dorsali tuberculosis.

Mar. merid.-Prope Seksaoua ! in rnpibus calidissimis.

S. RUBELLA (L. , DC. Pr. i. 369 ; Rohrb. Sil. 155). Mar. sept.--'ranger ! (Salzm. Ezsicc. j ! Mar. merid.-In planitie Naroccana pr. Sheshaoua ! Ar, Geog. Regio Xediterranea, imprimis occidentalis. In Oriente, ad-

S. INAPERTA (L., DC. Pr. i. 376; Roiwb. Sil. 165). Mar. merid.-Ad radiccs Atlantis JIajoris pr. Anismiz ! Ar. Geog. Regio Nediterranea occideutalis a Corsica et Galloprovincia

usque Macaronesiam. S. MUSCIPULA (L., Rohrb. Sil. 170, non DC. Prod.),=% stricta (DC.

Pr. i. 379, non L.). Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore Atlantis Majoris. Distr. & r a p ! In

convalle Ait Mesan ! Amsmiz ! Mzouda ! Ouecl Gbagda (Balansa), Coss. Index.

Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea, imprimis occidentalis. Deest in Maca- ronesia. et rarius in Oriente occurrit, forsan cum seminibus introducta.

Silene stricta (L., Rohrb. Sil. 170),=S. pteropleura (Boiss. et Reut. Pug. 18), species affinis sed bene distincta, nascitiir in Hispania aus- trali proxima (e. g. pr. Sari noque !) ; hactenus in Imp., Maroccano desideratur.

S. ITALICA (L., sub Cucubalo, Pers. Syn. i. 499; DC. Pr. i. 351; Rokrb. Sil. 218).

Mar. sept.-In monte Beni Hosmar supra Tetuan legit P. B. Webb. Specimen habui ex herb. Webb sub " S. viscosa " !

Mar. merid.-In regione inferiore et media Atlantis Majoris. Jn con- valle Kit Mesan (forma typica) circ. 1400 m. ! I n monte Djebel Tezah (forma depauperata) usque 1900 m. !

modnm ram, deest in Nacaronesia.

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Ar. Geog. Regio Nediterranea fere ornnis (exclusa Macaronesia). Forma arcte afiinis (S. nemoralis, W. K.) in Germania orientali, Hungaria, e t Rossia meridionali.

SILENE M o L L I s s I h i A (L . , sub Cucubub, Sibth. et Sin. Pr. pi. Gr. i.298; Rohwb. Sil. 226, non DC. Pr. i. 352):=S. velutina (Pozwr. in Herb. Dsf. ; DC. Pr. i. :j73 ; H'illk. Ic. et Desc. tab. 43),=S. Salzmanni Otth in DC. Pr. i. 35 1, non Bad.). Var. rosulata, = S. rosulata (Soy. 1.T.'. et God. Sil. Alg. 50, EX^. bot. ALg. tab. 82).

Mar. scpt.--Tanger ! Ar. Gco j . Peninsula Iberica. Africa borealis. Corsica. Scriptures

Florz Orientalis, ct iniprimis cei. Boissier, siiuernnt de hac specie, B Sibthorp, 1. c. indicata inter Smyrnam e t Bursam.

Xotrr: diagnosticw quibus S. rosulata a S. mollissirnu distinguitur mihi viclentur nimis lcves et instabiles. Specimen unicuin nostrun! Tingi- tanum siniillimum est spec: S. gibraltaricce in monte Djebel Santo prope Oran ieetis. Quae villi ct apse legi in rupibus Gibraltar orien- tern spectantibus paulolum dirersa sunt et aliam varietatem sistunt.

__- , var. GIBRALTARICA,=S. tomentosa. (OtthinDC. Pr. i. 383), =S. pibraltarica (Boiss. El. p. 29, et Toy. ESP. tab. 266 ; Rohrb.

Mar. sept.-Prope Tetuan legit Webb (spec. in herb. nostro sub " S.

Ar. Geoy. Nascitur in fissuris rupium Gibraltar et in rupestribus Te- tuauensibus.

Pace cl. Rohrbach, ex descriptione incompleta, sed'omnino conformi, et loco natali plane apparet S. tommtosa esse stirps ipsissima quae postea cel. Boissier rnelius descripsit et illustravit. Hanc ego olirn legi in rnpibus Gihraltar orientem spectantibus iconi Boissierianae si- millimam; sed, n t mihi ridetur, est nil nisi var. S. mollissimm q u z fatente cel. Boissier in rupibus septentrionem versus ejusdam montis nascitur.

S. LZTA (Ait . 11. Kew. ii. 118, sub Lychaide, A. Br. iu Florn, 1843,

Mar. sept.-Tanper ! (Salrm. Ezsicc.) ! Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iberica, Gallia austro-occirlentalis.

Sil. 227) .

e;iscoso ''1 !

373 ; Gren. et God. Fl. Fr. i. 220).

Ditio Tingi- tana.

LYCHNIS (L. Gen. 584 ; DC. Fl. Fr. iv. 761). L . C ~ L I ROSA (L.,'suh Agrostemma; Desr. in Lam. Diet. iii. 614 ; DC.

Mar. sept.-Prope Tetuan legit P. €5. Webb! flores, sec. MSS. Webb.,

Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iberica. Gallia mcridionalis. Italia. Dalmatia.

-- _- , Tar. A S P E R A (DC. Pr. 1. c.). Mar. selit.-'L'anger (Webb Herb.) ! (Sehousb. spec.)

Pr. i. 356).

albi.

Ditio Tingitana.

,TSN. JO7JRX.-BOTANY, TOL. XTI. 2D

362 MR. J. BALL'S SPICILEOIUM F LORE MAROCCANE.

LYCHNIS MACROCARPA (Boiss. et Reut. Diagn. Pl. Hisp. p. 8 ; Expl.

Mar. merid.-Ad radices Atlantis Majoris prope Amsmiz ! AT. Geog. Peninsula Iberica.

Scient. Aly. tab. 80).

Afrira borealis.

D I U R N A (Sibth. F1. Ox. 145; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. i. 146),=L. dioica, var a, L.,=L. sylvestris ( D C . P r . i. 386),=Melandriuni pra- tense (Rcehl. Deutsch. Fl. i. 254 ; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 660).

Mar. sept.-In itinere inter Tanger et Tetuan specimen uuicurn legit J. D. N. !

AT. Geog. Europa fere omnis, exclusa arctica. Africa boreali-occiclen - talis.

HOLOSTEUH (L. Gem. 333). H. UMBELLATUM (L., DC. P r . i. 393). Mar. merid.-In regione media Atlantis Majoris. Supra Arround circ.

Ar. Geog. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea omnis (exclusa Maca- 2300 m. ! In monte Djebel Tezah circ. 2100 m. !

ronesia). CERASTIUM (L. Gew 585).

C. GLAUCUM (Gren. Mon. Cer. 47), var. OCTANDRUM (Gren. 1. c.),= C. teuue (Viv. Tent. FZ. COTS. 7),=Moenchia octandra (Gay in Perr. Cat. Freus, 55).

Mar. sept.-Tanger ! (Schsb. spec.) ! (Salzm. Emicc. sub Sagina oclan- dra) ! (Webb Herb.) ! Prope Tetuan !

Ar. Geog. Species a Greniero 1. c. definita per Europam mediam et re- gionem Mediterraneam (exclusa Macaronesia) diffusa, fit rarior in Asia Mediterranea,

C. GLOMERATUM (Thuill. Par. 225 ; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. i. 132),= C. vulgatum (Sm. FZ. Brit. ii. 496 ; D C . Pr. i. 415),= C. viscosum (Gren. Mon. p. 25; Boiss. FI!. Or. i. 722).

Mar. sept.-Tanger ! Cap. Spartel ! Prope Tetuan ! Mar. occid.-Mogador (Lowe Cat.). Mar. merid.-In planitie et in Atlante Majore usque in regionem suhal-

pinam. Alesfioua ! I n convalle Ai't Mesan usque 2400 m. ! In monte Djebel Tezah circ. 2200 m. !

Ar. Geog. Species per orbem terrarum fere totum diffusa, vestigia ho- minum et animalium secuta.

Monentibus celebb. Mertens et Kocb, Bentham, aliisque magistris, no- mina Linnaeana C. vulgatum et C. viscosum diu vexata et ab ips0 auctore in Herbario confusa hodie negligenda videntur.

C. P U M I L U M (Curt. Fl. Lond. i. hsc. 6, tab. 30; Gren. Mon. Cer. 33), =C. pentiindrum (Moris Fl. Surd. i. 266, an L.? an DC. P r . i. 416).

Mar. sept.--Prope Tanger et inter Tanger et Tetuan legit Lagrange sec. Cosson. In monte Beni Hosmar supra Tetuan specimen nanum inter radices gramineae cujusdam inveni, nimis incompletum et ideo incer- tum.

NR. J. BALL’S SPICILEQIUM FLOEB MAROCCANE. 363

Ar. Geog. Per Europam totam (exdusa arctica) et verisimiliter per omnem regionem Mediterranean; diffusum. Synonymia auctorum incerta. I n Macaronesia haec species et afFines hucusque non de- tectae.

CERASTIUM BRACHYPETALUM (Desp. in Pers. Syn. i. 520; DC. Pr.

Mar. yept.-In monte Beni Hosmar supra Tetnan ! Mar. merid.-In regione subalpina Atlantis Majoris.

i. 4 1 6 ; Gren. Man. Cer. 36).

In convalle Ait Mesan supra Arround, circ. 2400 m. ! In monte Djebel Tezah usque 2600 m. !

Ar. Geog. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea omuis (exrlusa Maca- ronesia).

Facie a typo Europaeo paululum cliffert, sed notis gravioribus, et praesertim petalorum unguibus basi barbatis, bracteis herbaceis, inflorescentia indole, huc referendum.

C. ARVENSE (L., DC. Pr. i. 419),=C. mutabile (Gren. Mon. Cer. 68) pro parte.

Mar. merid.-In regione media Atlantis Majoris. I n convalle Kit Mesan a 1800 m. usque 2300 m. ! In monte Djebel Tezah circ. 2000 m. I n jug0 Tagherot (R . et Fr. in Herb. Kew.) !

Per omnem Europam, Asiaui temperatam, Americam borealem et per montes regionis Mediterranese (inclusa Macaronesia) diffusa ; nec deest in America australi frigidiore.

Ar. Geog. Herba amphigea.

STELLARIA (L. Ben. 568). S. M E D I A (L., sub Alsine; DC. Pr. i. 397). Mar. occid.--Mogador (Jmue Cat.). Mar. merid.-Mesfioua ! In convalle hit Mesan usque 1400 m. ! veri-

similiter communis sed cito marcescens. Ar. Geog. Per orbem terrarum fere totum diffusa, hominum et anima-

lium (imprimis avium) vestigia secuta.

-- - , var. M A J O R , Koch,=S. latifolia (Pers. Syn. i. 501 ; DC. Pr. i. 396),= S. neglecta (Weihe in Blufet Fingerh. Comp. Germ, i. 560).

Mar. sept.-Inter Tanger et Tetuan spec. legit J. D. H . ! Ar. Geog. Varietas in umbrosis regionis Xediterraneae et Europae cali-

S. ULIGINOSA (ilfurr. Prod. Goett. 55 ; Rchb. 1 4 6 6 9 ) , = S . aqua- tics (Poll. PI. Pal. No. 422; DC. Pr. i. 398).

Mar. merid.-In regione subalpina Atlantis Najoris. In ascensu versus jugum Taglierot ultra 2500 m. !

Ar . Geog. In temperatis frigidioribus hemispharae borealis. In reg. subalpina montium regionis Xediterranea rarius occurnt. Hucusque quoad sciam in Africa non detecta fuit.

dioris frequens.

2 n 2

864 YB. J. BALL'S SPICILEQI~M FLORE M A R O C C I W E .

STELLARIA ARENARIA @ a h t . Exsice. ; an L. et DC. Pr. i. 3% ?). Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Emicc.) ! Species mihi non satis cognita, facie Arenarice spathulata, Dsf., valde

sirnilis. &4n propria ditionis Tingitanae ?

ARENARIA (L. Gen. 777). Genus a celebb. Bentham et Hooker (Gen. Plant. i. 149) reformatum

genera plurima auctorum notis non satis firmis defiuita includit, quE sistunt sectiones sequentes. I . Arenaria (suct. recent.). 2. i M ~ h - ringia (L. Gen. 494). 3. Rhodalsine (Gay, in Ann. Sc. Kat. ser. 3, iv. 25). 5. Mitruartia (L. Gen. 107). 6 . Cherleria (L. Gen. 570). 7. Hymenella (DC. Pr. i. 359). .P. Goufieia (Rob. et Cast. in DC. F1. Fr. v. 609). 9. Lepyrodiclis (Fend, in Endl. Gen. PI. p. 966). 10. Ammoderia (Gmel. F1. Sib. iv. 160). 11. Merckia (Fisch. ex Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnaea, i. 59).

In monte Djebel

4. dlsine [Wahl. F1. Lapp. 125).

A. PUNGENS (Clem. in Lag. Gen. et Sp. 15; DC. Pr. i. 403). Mar. merid.-In reg. subalpina Atlantis Majoris.

Ar. Geoy. Montes Hispaniae Granatensis. -- , var. GLABRESCENS (Ball, i n Journ. Bot. 1573, 301). Differt a t rpo Hispanic0 sepalis glabris, nervo medio prominulo basin

versos ciliato, caulibus subglaberrimis, foliis ad basin membranaceam connatis ciliatis, antheris fusco-griseis, uec rubentibus.

Mar. merid.-In regione subalpina Atlantis Majoris, Ait Mesan ! versns 2500 m. !

A. SERPYLLIPOLIA (L, DC. Pr. i. 411). Mar. merid-In planitie Maroccana et in Atlante Majore.

Tezah circ. 2500 m. ! Atlas Major.

Mesfioua hand procul urbe Marocco ! Oarika ! Bit lllesan 2000-2200 m. ! In jug0 Tapherot nsque 2800 m. ! In monte Djebel Tezah circ. 2200 m. !

Ar. Geog. Species per Europam fere omnem et Asiam ternperatam et regionem Mediterraneam iinclusa Nacaronesia) late diffusa. 111 ditione Tingitana nondum tletecta.

Specimina nostra ssepe inter typum et A. teptocladon (Rchb. Cent. XI.

tab. 32,= A . serpyllifolia, var. tenuoir, Koch) media vitlentur. In distr. Reraya ad radices Atlantis Majoris legi specinlina duo Dana

nimis incompleta ad Arenarias e grege A . serpyllifolice referencia. In his folia in petiolum brevissimum margine ciliatum sensim attenuata, sepala acuminata pubescenti-scabra, apice setis longioribus coronata. An spec. nova?

A. SPATHULATA (Desf. Fl. AtE. i. 355; DC. Pr. i. 413),=Stellaria arenaria (L., Sp. P1. App. 1196),= Arenaria cerastoides (Poir. Dict. vi. 363).

Inter Tanger et Tetuan !

Mar. sept.-'ranger ! (Snlzm. Exsicc.) ! (Webb Herb.) !

Ar. Geoy. Africa boreali-occitlenta!is. Hiapania Granatensis.

MR. J. BALL'S SPICILE~IUN FLORB MAROCCAEB. 305

ARENARIA E M A R G I N A T A (Brot. FL. Lus. ii. 202; DC. Pr. i. 406),a

&r. sept.-Prope Tanger ! (Salzm. Exsicc. sub A . rosea) 1 (Webb In monte Djebel Kebir (spec. ex Herb. Schsb.) !

AT. Geog. Peninsula Iberica. Ips: auctor speciei et cl. Seringe in DC. Pr. 1. c. affinitatem proximam

cum A . tenzcij'olia vidernnt adeo ut de diversitate specifica dubitarunt. Facie est rer-em sirnilis, nisi petalis emarginatis calyce longioribus, sen structura omnino diversa. In hac capsula Arenaria genninae valvis profunde bitlentatis, durn A. tenuij'diu in 0 Alsine (capsulae valvis in- tegris) retinenda. Ego semper vidi petala calyce sesquilongiora, nec breviora ut dantur in auct. citatis.

A. rosea (Salzm. Easicc.),=h. baetica (Salzm. Ezsicc.).

Herb.) ! Ditio Tingitana.

A. TRINERVIA (L. , DC. Pr. i. 412),= i\Ioehringia trinervia (Claim.

Mar. sept.-In monte Djehel Kebir pr. Tanger ! In monte Beni Hos-

AT. Geo3. Etiropa e t Asia ternperata. In umbrosis reg. Afediterranea: In Africa boreali

Man. Her€. 150, et plurim. auct. recent.).

mar supra Tetuan !

Europae e t Asia et in Macaronesia infrequens. rara.

A. PROCUWBLNS (Vahl, Symb. i. 50, tab. 33; DC. Pr. i. 313),=A. geniculata (Poir. Dict. t.i. 365),=Rhodalsine procumbens (Gay, Ann. Sc. Nut. ser. 3, x. 25) .

Inter Tetuan et Centa!

Mar. sept.-Prope Tetuan ad ostium fluminis (1851) !

Mar. occid.-Mogador ! (Lowe Cat.). Mar. merid.-Sat frequens in planitie e t in regione infeciore Atlantis

Majoris. Prov. Haha ! Prov. Shedma ! Prope Arnsmiz ! In convaile Ait Xesan usque 1400 m. ! Prov. Ksiina ( CoZZ. Indig, Mardocfinus), Coss. In clelc.

Ar. Geog. Regio Metiiterranea Enr0p.E et Africa borealis. Bdest etiam in Macaronesia, sed in Asia Mediterranea desideratur.

Species satis Indibunda quoad formam folioriim et longitudinem sepa- lornm, sed varietates stabilire inutile duco.

Agadir (CoZZ. Indig. 1871) !

A. TENUIFOLIA (L. , DC. Pr. i. 405),=Alsine tenuifolia auct. plurim. Mar. set&-In monte Beni IIosmar supra Tetuan s .f.nen unicum

Ar. Geog. Ewopa media. Asia temperata. Regio Mediterranea omnis

-- , rar. GLANDULOSA,=A. viscidula (Thuill. Par. 219). Mar. merid.-In saxosis pr. Seksaoua ! Ar . Geog. Fere per totam aream speciei imprimis calidiorem diffusa.

ARENARIA P A B C I C U L A T A (Gouoiz, Ill. p. 30 ; Jncq. Amtr . tzh. 192 ;

legi ! A (exclusa Macaronesia).

Milhain !

366 Mlt. J. BALL’S SPICILEOILW FLORB MIallOCCANB.

Dc. &. i. 407, non Sibth. et Sm. F1. Gr. v. 30),=Alsine Jacquini (Koch, Syn. FL. Germ. 125, et auct. plurim.).

Mar. merid.-In regione subalpina Atlantis Majoris in convalle Lit Mesan a 2200 m. usque 9500 m. !

AT. Geog. Europa media, in regionc Mediterranea rarius obvia. Citatur in Albania a eel. Grisebach et in montibus Velebith a cel. Visiani. In latere meridion& Alpium Europe haud infrequeus, sed in regionem inferiorem vir descendit.

somen tj-iviale A . fasciculata a Gouan prius publici juris factnm. id sit A . fasciculata, L. Spec. P1. ed. 12, iv. 733, eruere non potui. Planta Florae Graca: est Alsine Smithii (Fzl. Alsin. 57),= Alsine zancyolia (Vis. Ic. F1. Dalm.),=Alsine fasciculata (Maly, Enum. Allstr. 295, et Vis. F1. Dalm. iii. 177, tab. xxxiv.). A sp. nostra differt sepalis trinervibus, foliis 5-T-nervibus, caeterisque notis gravioribus.

Specimina nostra a typo Europzo parum diversa sunt sepalis minus inaequalibus.

A. EETACEA (Thuill. Par. ed. 2,220 ; DC. Pr. i. 4Oi),= Alsine setacea ( M . K . et auct.pZu.rirn.). Var. ATLANTICA, nob., cui simillima A. ery- throsepala (Boiss. Diagn. PI. Or. ser. 1, viii. 98, et F1. Or. i. 679).

Mar. merid.-In regione snbalpina et alpina Atlantis Majoris. In jngo Tagherot usqne 3100 m. ! In monte Djebel Tezah, J. D. H. !

Ar. Geog. Species polymorpha per montes regionis Mediterraneze ex Atlante usque Persiam, et inde in Sibiriam Uralensem diffusa. In Europa media obvia, fit rarior occidentem versus. Deest in Macaro- nesia, in montibus peninsula: Ibericae (?) et in Alpibus Europae.

Specimina nost.ra pluribus notis inter A. setaceam, Thuill., et A. fasci- culatarn, Gouan, media snnt, et re Vera ilia, nisi radice perenni, ab hac zegre dignoscitur. Sepala in specim. nostris basin versus obscure tri- nervia sunt, przesertirn in statu juniore ; inflorescentia fere A. setacece typicae, sed interdum cymoso-corymbosa ; folia trinervia, brevia, ad-

* pressa, apice cartilagineo praedita. Cel. Boissier (PI. Or. i. 680) sex formas seu varietates A. setacece enu-

merarit, quibns, pace tanti viri, addendae sunt A. erythrosepala, Boiss., et A. lihanotica, Boiss. His adjungenda erit ArenariaJilifolia (Forsk. FI. Eg.-Arab. p. 211) qure mouente beato J. Gay est Alsine Schim- per& Hochst., stirps in montibus Abyssiniae et Arabiae obvia. Nostra plant= valde proxima est No. 983, Balansa, P1. d’Alge‘rie (Als ine setacea, M. K., var., sec. Cosson). Specimina a monte Djebel Tou- gourt, Bal. P1. d‘Alg. No. 856 (Als ine setacea, var.pubescens, Coss.), gaudent habitu diverso et facie potius A. jusiperina. De his novis- simis in notula MS. b. Gay scripsit ‘‘ ab A. setacea sine dltbio dis- tinctissima.” rrustra tamen notas diagnosticas qtlesivi. Semina (in spec. nostris nimis immatura) nullomodo ab A. setoceo dirersa videntur.

Radix annua vel biennis, vel interdum (P) perennans.

MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEGIUM FLORB MAROCCANE. 367

-4RENARIA VERNA (L., DC. &. i. 405), = Alsine Verna auct. phrirn., var. BRACHYPETALA, petalis calyce paullo brevioribus oblongo- ellipticis.

uar. merid.-In regione subalpina e t alpina Atlantis Majoris. In jug0 Tagherot 2500-3000 m. !

Ar. Geog. Europa media. Asia media et borealis. Montes regionis Mediterranea: (exclusa Xacaronesia).

In monte Djebel Tezah circ. 2500 m. !

BVFFONIA (L. Gelz. 168). B. TENUIFOLIA (L . Sp. 179, et Herb. ex. b. J. Gay),=B. annua (DO.

F1. Fr. iv. 768, et Prod. i. 388). Mar. merid.-Ad radices Atlantis Majoris sat frequeuo. Pr. Ourika I

Reraya ! Gurguri ! Seksaoua ! et in convalle Ait Mesan ! Ar. Geog. Gallia australis. Hispania. Graecia et (ex Led.) prov. Trans-

caucasicae. Radix interdum fit biennis. Specimen leg; in distr. Reraya ramis anni

prscedentis jam emarcidis, glomerulis floralibus in axillis foliorum przeditis, ramis hornotinis inflorescentia racemosa typica donatis.

SAGINA (L. Gen. 236). s. PROCUMBENS (L., Dc. Pr. i. 389), var. PARVIFLORA,nOb.

Mar. merid.-In regione subalpina Atlantis Majoris. In jug0 Tagherot versus 2600 m. !

Ar. Geog. Europa fere omnis et Asia temperata. Montes regionis Mediterranea:. America borealis et australis.

Przter flores minores specimina nostra typo Enropaeo videntur omnino conformia.

S. MARITIMA (Don in Eny. Bot. tab. 2195; DC. Pr. i. 389). Mar. sept.-In rupibns juxta Cap. Spartel ! In litore freti Herculis juxta

Ar. Geog. Europa media et australis in maritimis. Ppecimina Africana

S. APETALA (L., DC. Pr. i. 389). Mar. sept.-Tanger ! Ar. Geog. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea omnis (inclusa Macaro-

S. ciliata (FT. Nov. Fl. Suec. 59; Rchb. Ic. F2. Germ. fig. 4956),=S.

Mar. occid.-Casa Blanca ! Forsan prioris var., sed nota diagnostica ex sepalis supra capsnlam matu-

ram adpressis, nec patulis cruciformibns, videtur satis constans et C d -

tura immutata. Caracteres caeteri plane variabiles. Haud sine dubio pro subspecie enumeravi.

s. L I N N ~ I (Presl, Rel. Hank. ii. 14 ; Boiss. FZ. Or. 1. 663),=S. 88x8-

Tn monte Djebel Tezah circa 2500 m. !

Ceuta!

(nostris exceptis) non vidi.

In monte Beni Hosmar supra Tetuan !

nesia).

patula (Jord. 06s. PI. Fr. p. 23).

868 NE. J. BALL'S S P I C I L ~ O I C J I FLORX X L R O C C A N . ~ .

t i h ( W m m . FL. Schles. 76 ; Koch, Syn. FI. Germ. 1 lg),= SperguIa saginoides (L , , DC. Pr. i . 391).

Mar. merid.-In regione subalpins Atlantis Majoris. In convalle Ait Mesan usque 2500 ni. !

Ar. Geog. Montes Europre fere totius, Asiae borealis et America: bo- realis. IIucusque in Africa non indicata.

SPELWULA (L. Gen. 586). . 8. ARVENSIS (L., DC. Pr. i. 391).

Mar. sept.-Tanger ! (Salzm. Emicc.) ! Ar. Geog. In arvis Europz fere totius.

S. PENTAKDRA (L . , DC. Pr. i. 394). Mar. merid.-Misra ben Kara haud procul urbe Mogatlor ! Ar. Geog. I n cultis Europa: et regionis Mediterranee (inclusa Macaro-

Semina videntur omnino diversa ab illis S. araensis; sed non desunt

Hinc intle in regione Metliter- ranea (inclusa Macaronesia), in India orientali et in i4byssinia.

nesia).

forma: intermedia:, e t h e c forsan melius pro snbspecie habenda.

SPERGULARIA (Pms. Syn. i. 504 ; B. et Ha$ Cen. PZ. i. 125).

Arenarias stipnhferas a eieteris Linnreauis persoon loc. cif . primus se- paravit, e t ad genus novum (Spergularia) constituendas proposuit. Somen igitiir Lepigonum a plurirnis receptum, consentientibus Ben- tbam, Hooker, Boissier, rei botanices magistris, prztermisi.

S. MARINA (All. Fl. Ped. ii. 114, sub Arenaria ; Wahlb. FE. Gothob. 47 ; et Kindb. Mofk. Lepig. 18, sub h p i g o n o ) , = Arenaria rubra p. marina ( L . F1. Suec. p. 152),=Arenaria marginata (DC. FZ. Fr. iv. 793), = Spergularia marginata (Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 733),=A. media (DC. Pr. i. 401, izon L.).

Mar. occid.-Casa Blanca ! Mcgador ! Ar. Geog. Species amphigea per orbem terrarum (exclnsis reg. polari-

bus) in maritimis diffusa, rarius in terris continentalibus subsalsis obvia.

De L. media (L. Sp. P1. 606) conf. Kindberg, loc. cit. Nowen hodie in- extrirabile delendum.

s. F I M B R I A T A (Boiss. et Reut. Dingn. PI. o r . ser. 2, i. 94 ; Salzrn. Exsicc. NSS. ; Kindb. Non. Lepig. 21, sub Lepigono). -- , var. a, T Y P I C A . Facies S. macrorhizm (Gr. et God. PI. Fr. i.

2761, ramis elongatis srepissiine prostratis, mucrone in foliorum apice ipsorum diametrum iequante vel superante. Seniina mnjore pro parte aptera, caetera margine fimbriata.

Mar. sept,.-Tanger in maritimis ! (Uoiss. et Reut. Zoc. cit.). Mar. occir1.-Casa Jllnnca !

, var. p , CONDENSATA. Foliis in ramis brevioribus approxi- matis, hirtulis, brevissime mucronulatis. Aoribus numerosis in panicula --

MR. J. BALI,'S SPICILEGIUM FLORZ MAROCCAXX, 369

brevi condensatis, sepalis densius glanduloso-hirsutis, seminibus szepe (non semper) omnibus apteris, stipulis argenteis maximis. ~

Mar. occid.-In insulx Mogador hanc formani insignem legimus ! - -, var. y, TENLTE. Ramis brevioribus tenuibue, erectis vel ad-

scendentibus, foliis szpius brevioribns mucrone ipsorum diametruni bis terve longiore armatis, seminibus apteris e t fimbriato-marginatis com- mixtis.

Mar. occid.-In arenosis jus ta A h el Hadjar ! Nar. merid.-In regione inferiore, przesertim versus radices Atlantis Ma-

joris sat frequens. Legimus in prov. Shedma! prope Seksaoua! Miltiai'n ! e t alibi vidinius.

Permultis capsulis scrutatis semina fimbriata nonnnlla seniper detexi sed in ditione nostra semina aptera c e m frequentiora, et in rar . 13 nostra semina fimbriata sat rara. Stipuia: elongatz nitentes in hac specie in- signes. Not& diagnostic= in hoc genere parum firmre, sed h e c inter formas probe distinctas enumeranda viiletur.

Ar. Geog. I n Hispania Gaditana rara, in territorio Maruccano verisimiliter communis, et in Nacaronesia nascitur, nee, qnoad sciam, alibi detecta.

S r E a G u L A R I A R E B R A ( L . , et DC.pr. i. 401, sub Arenaria; Pers. Syn. i. 504 ; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. ;A?),=Lcpigonum rubrum (Fries, Fl. Hulland. p. 76; Kindb. ilfon. Lepig. 40).

Mar. merid.-Prov. Shetlma, J . D. H. ! Ar. Geog. Europa fere tota (exclusa arctica). Regio Xediterranea

omnis (inclusa Macaronesia). Asia temperata. -- , var. P I N G U I S (Fenzl, in Led. Fl. Ross. ii. 16j),=Lepigonum

salinum (Fries, h'ov. F1. Suec. Jfant. iii. 34 ; l i n d b . Mon. Lep . 36). Mar. sept.-In maritimis justa Ceuta! Mar. occid.-In niaritimis prope Mogador ! Mar. merid.-In prov. Shedma ! -- , var. 8 PE KG u LOIDES, nog.,=Lepigonum sperguloides (Fisch.

et Meyer, Ind. &in. Hort. Petrop. 1853, ex Kindb. &Ion. Lep . 3!)). Distinguitur panicula mcemosa, pedunculis subaphyllis, seminibus in

spec. nostris nigrescentibus niticiis auriculato-escavatis. Mar. occid.-Legi cum rar. priore in maritiruis p r o p XIogador ! K o t z diagnosticae ab auctoribus, et presertim a cl. Kindberg in Mono-

graphia allctz, ad species plurimas liujns gregis firmandas, fallaces vi- dentur. Stirpes enim summopere variabiles sunt Spergulurice omnes ; et quot species clefinire crectiint auctores, tot furmas interruedins iiatura przbet.

S. UIASDRA (Guss. Fl. Kie. Pr. i. 515, sub Areizaria; Boiss. F1. Or. i. 733),=Arenaria salsuginea (Bwnge in L e d . Fl. AZt. ii. 163, Ic . tab. 40!1, flores errore lutei), =Spergularia salsuginea (Fenzl, in Led. Fl. Ross. ii. 166; Gren. et God. FI. Fr. i. 275),=Lepigoniim salsugineum (Kindb. Mon. Lepig. 42),=Spergolaria patens (Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Arab. Exs. No. 193, ex Boiss. 1. c.).

370 MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEOIUM FLORB MAROCCANAL

Mar. occid.-Casa Blanca ! Mar. merid.-Frequens in saxosis aridis regiocis inferioris. Prov.

Shedma! Mesfioua! Misra ben Ksra ! Ar. Geog. Species Mediterranea, verisimiliter per totam regionem cali-

diorem diffusa. I n Macaronesia nondum detecta. In desertis Asia mediae etiam obvia.

Folia szepe ‘< obtusiuscula ” (Kindberg), interdum “ mucronata ” (Boiss.), “ glabra ” (Fend.), vel smpius puberula (spec. nostra) ; sepala occur- runt “ msrgine tenuissime scariosa ” (Kindberg), vel margine scariosa dorso herbaceo zquilata ; stipulae szpissime pro genere minimz, interdum longiores et nitentes. Semina in spec. nostris semper ad calcem diagnosis Boissieriana “ triquetro-obovata, aptera, scabrius- cula, margine incrassata,” nec margine elevata angnstata cristata sicut ea descripsit et delineavit Kindberg 1. c. Nomen Gussoniannm anti- quius a Kindberg perperam praetermissnm. Flores sunt revera smpis- sime, sed non semper, diandri, sed nomen triviale nisi plane erro- neum non mutandnm. Stirps non semper in locis salsis nascitur, et eodem pacto nomen S. salsuginea haud exacte convenit.

Eodem pacto quo congeneres haec species etiam ludibunda est.

POLYCARPON (L. Ben. 105).

P. TETRAPHYLLUM (L., sub Mollugine ; L. $1. Suppl. ; DC. Pr. iii.

Mar. sept.-Pr. Cap. Spartel ! Juxta Tetuan

Mar. occid.-Casa Blanca ! Mazagan ! Mogador (Lowe). Mar. merid.-Sat frequens in regione inferiore praesertim ad radices

Atlantis Majoris. Prov. Mtouga ad Ain Tarsi1 ! In convalle Ourika ! I n convalle Amsmiz circ. 1400 m. !

Ar. Geog. Europa media. Regio Mediterranea omnis (inclusa Macaro- nesia).

P. alsinefolium (Biv. St. Rar. Sic. Man. iii. 7, sub IIagea; DC. Pr. iii. 3;G), var. LEIOSPERMUM, sob.

A P . alsiizefolio, rui simillima, differt insigniter var. nostra seminibus laevibus dorso leviter canaliculatis. A P. peploidi differt imprimis radice annna, nec perenni, sepalis acntis, nec obtusis subcucullatis.

Mar. occid.-In rupibus insulae Mogador ! et in maritimis haud procul Mogador ! Ain el Hadjar !

Mar. merid.-In distr. Mesfioua haud procul urbe Mogador ! Juxta Amsmiz spec. unicum legit J. D. €1. !

Ar. Geog. P . alsinefolium est totius reg. Mediterranem (inclusa Macaro- nesia) civis, procul a litore maris rarius ubvium.

Var. nostra proximum est P. arabicum (Boiss. Diagn. P1. Or. ser. 1,

376). Inter Tanger et Tetuan !

(1851) !

Legimus in prov. Shedma !

Per orbern terrarum hinc inde cum seminibus allatum. -

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EToc est etiam P. tetraphyllo arcte affine e t cum P. alsinefolio x. 13). smut subspecies enumerandum.

POLYCARPON BLVONB (J . Gay in Duchartre, Rev. Bot. ii. 572 ; Walp. Ana, Bat. Syst. i. S?), var. HERNIARIOIDES, nob.,= P. herniarioides (Ball in Journ. Bot. 1873, 301).

Mar. merid.-In convalle Ait Rfesan a 2300 m. usque 2500 m. ! I n monte Djehel Tezah circ. 2400 m. (J. D. H.)!

Cel. Cosson certum me fccit stirpem Atlanticam fore nil nisi var. P . Bi- vonm, Gay, sp. polymorphae in Europa rarissima, sed in Algeria e regione caliciiore usque subalpinam late diffnsze. Var. nostra differt ramis brevibus condensatis, cymis paneifloris, laciriiis calyc inis ohtusis apice panlulum inflexis. Stamina in spec. ex Ait Mesan 3, in illis ex Djehei Tezah czeterum simillimis 5 , semina nimis immatura. Calycis laciniz prorsus ecarinatze, exteriores linea tenui dorso notata.

P . Bivonm, monente b. Gay, est ipsissima Ilagea polycarpoides (Biv. St. Rar. Sic. Man. ii. No. 3) a Candolleo et Bertoloni erronee ad P.peploides, DC., relata.

Ar. Geog. Africa boreali-occidentalis. Sicilia. Occurrit etiam ex cel. Gay, 1. c., in insulis Canariensibus.

LCEFLINGIA (L. Gefz. 5 2 ) .

L. HISPANICA (L, DC. Pr. iii. 350; Schousb. Gew. Marok. 12). Mar. occid.-In arenosis ad ripam fluvii prope Mogador ! (Schsb. 1. c.).

Prope Ain el fIadjar ad radices montis Djebel Hadid ! Ar. Geog. Per regionem Mediterraneam imprimis occidentalem diffusa,

sed infrequens ; deest in Italia continentali e t in Grzecia, necnon in Macaronesia, in Oriente rarissime occiirrit.

POLHCARPIA (Lam. Joura. Eist . .Nut. ii. 8, ex DC. Pr. i. 371 ; Webb, PAyt. Cam. i. 156, nomen emendatum).

P. N I V E A (Ai t . Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 286, et FViZld. S'3. P1. i. 1119, sub Achryranthe ; Webb, Spic. Gorg. p. 101),=P. gnaphalodes (Schousb. Gew. nfarok. 104, sub Illecehro; Poir. Did . Suppl. iv. 473; DC. Pr. iii. 373),=P. micropliq.lla (Cav. Anal. Cienc. Nut. iii. 25),=P. glanca Chr. Sm. in Tuck. p. 250, ex Webb 1. c.),=P. candida (Webb, Phy t . Can. i. 158, tab. 21).

Mar. orcid.-In arenosis maritimis pr. Mogador ! (ubi jam legerant Scbousboe et Bronssonnet et Balansa).

Xomen triviale nivea prioritate gaudet et a b. Webb rite restitutnm. Ar. Geog. Species Canariensis et ins. Cap. Viridis, deest in Madeira, et

ultra plagnm Mogadorensem in terris continentalibus nondnm visa.

372 MR. J. BALL'S ~PICILXGILJU E L O l l B JLAROCCANS.

POBTGLACACEB (Juss. Gen. 313; &dl. Gen. 940, ordo reformata e t nonieii emendatum).

PORTULACA (L . Gen. 602). P. O L E R A C E A (I,,, DC. Pr. iii. 353). Mar. occid.-Snffi ! 3Iogador (Lowe Cut.). Mar. merid.--Seksaoua ( J . D. H.) ! et alibi visa in ruderatis. Ar. Geog. Planta cosmopolita per regiones temperatas calidiores totius

fere orbis diRusa. MONTIA (L. Gen. 101).

M. FONTANA (L., DC. Pr. iii. 362). Mar. merid--In regione subalpina Atlantis Majoris. Legimus in con-

Ar. Geog. IIerba per Europam omnem e t Asiam temperatam diffusa. valle Ait Mesan vix florentem circ. 2500 m. !

Nec in Macaronesia, ncc in Algeria indicatur.

T A X A R I ~ C I X E B (Dew. Diss. Aast. Gall. Lecf . ex DC. Pr. iii. 95).

TA~IARIX (L. Geiz. 375). T. A F R I C A S A (Poir. Voy. ii. 189 ; DC. Pr. iii. 95). Nar . sept.--Tctuan ( K i b b Herb.) ! Inter Tetuan et Centa! Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea occidentalis.

T. G A L L I C A (L., DC. Pr. iii. 96; Schousb. Gew. Murok. 131). Mar. sept.--Tanger ! (Schousb. spec.) ! Tctuan (Webb Herb.) ! Mar. occid.--Mogador ! ( L o w e Cat.). Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea occidentalis (exrlusa Macaronesia). Specimen a nobis p r o p Tnnger lectum, T . Conarieizsi simile, non difTert

Proxime affinis T . Anylica, Webb, habitat S ~ C U S litora At-

Deest in Macaronesia.

a specie. lantica Galliie occidentalis. In Atiglia vix indigena est.

. T. speciosa (BUZZ in Journ. Bot. 1873, 301). Frutex 8-10-pedalis ; cortex fusco-pnrpureus, nitidus ; racemi co6tanei

in rarnis liguosis e t in boruotinis subsessiles ; bracteie ovatie, minus quam in T . gullicu aciitse ; sepala oldongo-rotuudata, rarius ovata subacuta ; petala cito caduca ; flares pentandri; capsula (pro grege) longa, pulchre rosea.

Mar. merid.-Copiose secus torrentem in distr. Mesfioua ! ad 600 In. Frutex elegans speciosa, herba viridi, fructu roseo, a T. GaZZica et T.

Sicut subspecies hie enumerata, forsari melius c a p i t a pro sp. omnino

T. ARTICULATA (Vuhl , Symb. ii. 48, tab. 32 ; DC. Pr. iii. 96). Mar. merid.-vidimus sine fl. vel fr. in planitie haud procul urbe hia-

Africuna facie valde diversa.

diversa retinenda.

rocco, rarnus sterilis tantum lectrts I

MR. J. DALL’S SPICILBOICX FLORB M ~ R O C C S X B . 373

A?. Geog. Regio desertorurn ; verisirniliter ex 11Zarocco meridionali usque fines I n d k Orientalis diffusa.

H Y P X R I C I N E B (DC. Th6or. El4nz. p. 214).

HPPERICUX (L. Cen. 902).

H. P E R P O R A T U R I (L., DC. Pr. i. 519). Mar. sept.-Tanger (ez Herb. Schsb. spec.) ! (Salzm Ezsicc.) ! Tetuan

(1851) ! Specimen eheu vermibus erosurn ! Mar. merid.--Ad radices Atlantis Jlajoris. Tassereinout ! Ai’t Messn

versus 1250 m. ! Amsmiz ! Tainarut (R. e t Fr. spec. in Herb. KwJ.) ! Ar. Geog. Europa omnis (exclusa arctica). Rcgio Metliterranea fere

omnis (inclusa Blacaronesia). In Ameriea boreali videtur spon- taneum.

Specimina ex Mar. meridionali habent lacinias calycinas longiores quam in typo Europao.

H. UNDULATUM (Schousb. in WiZZd. Enurn. p. 81 I), = H. quadrangalum, var. E (Choisy in DC. Pr. i. 548),=H. beticum (Boiss. Voy. .ESP. i. 114, tab. 34).

Mar. scpt.--Vidi in Herb. Kewensi specimen Tingitanurn a Salzmann receptum cni scheda “ H . tetrayonurn, rar. acutanyulum,” H. batico, Boiss., satis conforme.

Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iber ia . Africa borealis. Madeira. Insul. Azoripie ( H . decipiens, Wats.).

Suadente cel. Trevirano (in Hyp. Geu. Anirnad. p. 9) nomen anti- qnum Schousbceanum H. b ~ t i c o restitui, et, donec experieiitia melius docebit, velut speciem distinctam enumeravi.

H. AUSTRALE (Ten. Syll. FL. Neap, 385; Gren. e t God. Fl. Fr. i.315), =I-I. repens (Poir. Voy. ii. 221; Choisy in DC. Pr. i. 548, non L., nec Boiss. F1. Or. i. 801).

Mar. sept.-In monte Beni Hosmar supra Tetuan ! In monte Djebel Dersa pr. Tetiian (Pl-ebb Herb.) !

At-. Geog. Regio Jlediterranea occidentalis (qaoad peninsulam Ibericam incerturrr).

Quid sit H. repens, L., dijutlicare lion audeo. Snadente viro gravissimo, eel. Boissier, erit idem ac H. perforatnm 13. punciaturn (Clioisy in L)C. Prod.),= M. alpcstre (Stev. Verz. p. 95),=H. Linarioides (Hosse in Ott. et Dietr. Gartcuzeit. iii. 90). Specimina plnriuia Orientalia quie vidi a stirpe Gnilica ( H . repens, L1C. Pr.) certe diversa snnt, et propius acceduut H. hyssopifolio, V111. Haec novissima est species Yaltle polymolpha qnncum eel. Boissier (F1. Or. i. i99) ~)lurimas forinas ab ips0 olim pro speciebus novis proliositas srmel conjunxit. Dubium milii atlest an not= differentiales quibns vir celeb. H . Tepens suum ab H . hyssopifoZio distinxit stabiles &it : quoad rationem

Forma affiriis in Gallin occiilentnli.

374 MR. J. BALL'S SPICILEOIUM FLORE MAUOCCANB.

calycis et capsulae maturae hsec certe variabilis est. H. repens (Sibth. et Sm. F1. Gr. tab. 775, non L.) est species Cretensis, H . trichocaubn (Boiss. & Held. Diagu. Pi. Or. ser. 1, riii. 110). proximum H. australi, Ten., videtur, sed sec. auctores in seetione Millepora, Spach, collocatur, dum species nostra inter Tceniocarpia, Spach, euumeranda est.

Hic notandum est specimina If. australis ex I t a h meridionali et Sicilia q u z vidi (e. g. spec. ab ips0 Tenore in Herb. Gay, hodie Kewensi), et Algeriensia plurima a me scrutata cum spec. Gallicis et Maroccauis haud adarnussim convenire. Pluribus notis priora inter I I . australe et H . linarifolbm (Vahl, Symb. i. 65),= El. linearifolium (DC. Prod. et auct. plurim.) media sunt. Re Vera characteres quibus distiuguitur species Tenoreana, seil. folia latiora, sepala margine glandnlis paucis sessilibus, nec numerosis pedicellatis, prredita, non gravis momenti suut, et h a c melius ad subspeciem reducenda erit.

Hoc mihi

HYPERICUM T O M E N T O S U M (L., DC. Pr. i.551). Mar. sept.--Tanger (Salzm. Ezsicc.) ! Mar. occid.-Ain el Hadjar ! Prov. Ilaha propc Mogndor ! Agadir (Coll.

Mar. merid.--Prov. Shcdma ! Mskala ! M t o u p ! Ar. Geog. Regio Mediterranea occidentalis ex insulis Sicilia et Melita

H. pubescens (Boiss. Elench. 43; Wak. Rep. i. 383),=H. suberosum

Mar. sept.--Tanger (Salzm. Ezsicc.) ! (Schousb. spec. ez Herb.) ! (Webb

Mar. occid.--Casa Blanca ! Mazagan ! Mar. merid.-Sat frequens in regione inferiore.

Ar. Geog. Peninsula Iberica. Tam H. tomentosum quam H. pubescens, qnod pro subspecie teneo, in

Specimina typica H. pubescentis omnino diversa ab H. fomentoso videntur, ~

'sed non desunt formre intermediae (e. p. spec. prope Alemqne in Estre- madura Lusitanica a Bar. de I'aiva lecta, in Herb. Kew. asservata). Spec. nostra ex Mesfiuua etiam subintermedia sunt.

H. COADUNATUX (Chr.SmithinBuch, Beschr. Canar. 153 j Webb, Phyt. Canur. i. 45, tab. 4). var. A T L A N T I C U M , nob.?

Mar. merid.-.Nondum floreus legimus in convalle Ait Mesan circ. 1700 m. s. m.!

~ o l i ~ et caulis foliaceus cum spec. Cnnariensibus adarnnssim conveni- lint, sed spec. nostra uimis incompleta. Gel. Cosson benevole corn- mlinicavit spec. in monte Djebel Ouensa ah intligeno Ibrallim lecta, cui srheda " H . ailanticum, Coss. MSS.," verisimiliter liuc etiam

Jndig. 1871)!

ad litora Atlantica. Deest in Macaronesia.

(Salzrn. E~s icc . ) .

Herb.) ! Tetnan prope urbem ed ad ostium fluminis, 1851 !

Ai'n Beida ! Mesfioua ! Mzouda! Sektana (R . et Fr. spec. i n IIb. Kew.) !

Africa boreali-occidentalis.

reg. meridionalibus fiunt glabriora et niinora.

MR. J. BALL'S SPICILEGIUM F L O E E MAROCCARE. . 375

referenda. Donec eel. auctor meliora docebit, hoc mihi videtur nimis proximum H . coadunato. Asp. Canariensi parum distant H. Naudinia- num (Coss. e t Dur. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. ii. 308) stirps Algeriensis, et H. caprifolium (Boiss. El. 41 ; Voy. Esp. tab. 35) Hispanire australis incola ; et hxc forsan sicut subspecies vel varietates ad H . coaduna- fum dncenda.

Ar. Geog. Species in iusulis Canariensibus ; varietas in Atlante Majori ; formae proximx affines in Algeria et Hispania.

HYPERICUM PERFOLIATUM (L. , Sihth. et Sm. Prod. Fl. Gr. ii. 116; Gris. Spicil. i. 224),=R. ciliatum (Lam. Dict. iv. 170; DC. Pr. i. 5 5 2 ; Boiss. FZ. Or. i. 812),=II. dentatum (Lois. Fl. Gall. p. 499; DC. Pr. i. 552),=H. montanum (Desf. FL. A t l . ii. 216, non L., nec aliorum).

Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Ersicc.) ! (Webb Herb.) ! Tetuan (Webb Herb.) !

Ar. Geog. Regio Mecliterranea fere omnis. Cel. Grisebach nomen Linnxanum ab auctoribus recentioribus prxter-

Specimen in Herb. Linn. est omnino H. ciliaturn,

Inter Tetuan et Ceuta !

missum vindicavit. Lam.

M A L T A C E B (R. Br. Cony. p. 8).

MALOPE (L. Ben. 841). M. MALACOIDES (L., DC. Pr. i. 429), var. STIPULACEA,=M. stipu-

Mar. sept.--Frequens circa Tanger ! Tetuan (1851) ! Mar. occid.-?Mogador see. Broussonnet in Cav. luc. cit. B. Broussonnet

interdum plantas originis diyersx semel miscuisse certe srimus. I-Ianc speciem legit in ditione Tingitana, ubi frequenter occurrit. "em0 recentiorum eam vidit in vicinitate urbis Mogador.

Ar. Geog. Species per regionem Mediterranean1 (exclusa Macaronesia) late diffusa; varietas in Africa boreali-occidentali e t in Hispania aus- trali obvia est.

pulacea (Cav. Anal. Cienc. Nut. iii. 74; DC. Pr. i. 429).

M. TRIFIDA (Can. Diss. ii. 85, tab. 27; DC. Pr. i. 429). Mar. sept.-Tanger (Schozisb. spec.) ! (Salzm. Ersicc.) ! Tetuan (Webb

Ar. Geog. Hispania Bxtica et ditio Tingitana. Herb.) !

ALTEBA (L. Gen. 839). A. HIRSUTA (L., DC. Pr. i. 437), var. G R A N D I F L O R A (Ball in Journ.

Uot . 1873, 30%). Differt a typo corolla sulrduplo majore, purpureo-rosea, stipnlis longio-

ribns, angustioribus, subcuneatis, nec ut in typo owtis, foliis magis divisis, laciniis augustioribus, planta tota minus hirsuta.

Mar. rnerid.-Specimina maiica legiinus in prov. Mtouga ! et Shedma !

37G JTR. J. BALL’S SPICILEOIUM E L O R S J d h R O C C h S 5 .

Melius explorata forsan sicut species nova distinguenda. In herb. beati J. Gay (nunc Kexensi) adsunt specimina duo p o p e Xonspelium lecta, qilibus adjecit in scheda “AIthea rrrutica, Gay MSS. (ltUJ).” I n his rorolla magna ut in nostra, set1 stipula: et folia omnino A. hirsute.

Ar. Geog. A . hirsuta per h q a m metliarn et regionern fere ornnem Mediterranean (exclusa Macaronesia) diffusa est.

LbrxrmA (L. Gen. 842). L. TRIMESTRIS (L, DC. f i r . i. 438). Mar. sept.-Frequens pr. Tanger ! (Salzm. Emicc.) ! Tetuan (1851) ! Mar. merid.--Sat frequen; ad radices Atlantis Majo-is. Meafiolia !

Tasserernont! Ourika! Sektana (R. I$ Fr. spec. in Kerb, Kew.) ! Ar. Geog. Per regionem Mediterraneam (exclssa Macaronesia) late dif-

fusa ; i i i Algeria rara.

-- , var. M A L V B . P O R h l I S , Bob. Fioribns ininoribus pallide purpureis, foliis subrotundatis, superioribus

Mar. merid.-Distr. Reraya versus llFO m. !

L. OLBIA (L., DC. Pr. i. 438). Mar. sept.-In monte Beni Ilosmar pr. Tetuan nondum florentem legi-

Ex indumento e t ca!ycibus fructibusque eniarcidis anni I>recedentis

vix angulatis. Herba totn longins pilosa.

miis !

potins ad typurn quain ad var. sequentetn refereuda.

- ---, var. I ~ I S P I D A , = L . hispida ( D q f . Fl. All. ii. 118, tab. 171; DC. Pr. i. 438).

Mar. sept.-Tanger (Salzm. Ezsicc.) ! I n rupibus pr. Cap. Spartel ! In montibus Gjebel Dersa et Beni Hosmar (Webb Nerb.) !

Ar. Geog. L. Olbia, cnm var. L. hispicla, in umbrosis et rupestrihus re- gionis Metliterranea: occiclmtslis habitat, nnnqnam a mari remota. Deest in 3‘Iacaronesia. Species proxime affinis (L. unguiculata, Desf.) Gracciam, S i c i h n , Cyprum et Cretam incolit.

L. M A R I T I M A (Gozran, 111. p. 46, tab. 11 ; DC. Pr. i . 43.9). Mar. merid.--Proix A’in el IIatljar ! Ar. Geog. Reaio Mctliterranea oecidentalis (exclusa Mncaronesia).

L. C i i E T i c A (L. , DC. Pr. i. 439),=L. srlvestris (Urot. F1. Lus. ii. 227, non Cyr.), = Mnlva pscu?olaratera (Webb, Tliyt. Can. i. 29), = ilI. tiedertefolia (J’is. FZ. D/iL,L. iii. 205).

Mar. sept.-Tanger ! (Sulzm. Ezsicc.) ! Tetuan (1851) ! Inter Tetrian et Ceuta !

Mar. occid.-Casa Rlanca! Rabat (R. et Fr. spec. in ITerb. Kew,) .J Mogador ! (Lome Cnt. ; Balansa ; C~JSS. Index].

Mar. merid.-Pluries visa ; legimns prope Amsmiz ! et in ruderatis urbis Marocco !

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