Minime rara in rupeflribus, irriguis alpium Styriæ, Tyrolis & ea-
rum convallibus, cum Sempervivo montano, Senecione incano & Saxifraga
bryoide, Junio Julioque menfe florens, Radix perennis, fublignefcens, ra-
mofa, multiceps, albida aut aquofe flavens caules producit plures, ereftos,
a duobus ad quinque altos pollices, teretes, geniculatos, læte aut ex glau-
co virides, glabros, fuperne ram >fos, floriferos. Folia oppofita funt, lan-
ceolata, acuta, integerrima, erefto-paientia, glabra utrinque & exglauco
viridia, rarius fubincana, unciam fere longa, lineas duas & ultra lata : lu-
periora fenfim minora. Flores terminales in caule ramisque fubdichotomis
trichotomisque. Pedunculi erefti, teretes, f ilifo rm e s læte virides, gla-
b r i , uniflori, inæquales, intermedio fæpe majori. Brafteæ binæ , oppofi-
tæ, lanceolatæ , acutæ, foliis fimiles pedunculorum bafi fubjacent. Calyx
çreftus, ovatus, campanulatus, apice quinquefidus, flriatus & ex albo vi-
rens : fegmentis breviffimis, ovatis, obtufis, apice fcariofis atque ex albo
fulcefcentibus. Petala quinque, laftes, obverfe cordata emarginataque,
obtufa, patentia, duas tresve lineas longa, lineam lata: nngue refto, ex
albo virente, calycis longitudine. Squamæ albæ, breviffimæ, acutæ, fau-
cis ambitum coronant, Stamina decern: filamenta-capillaria, alba, inæ-
qualia , ultra calycis fegmenta produfla : breviora quinque unguibus peta-
lorum infident, reliqua ex inftertitils petalorum prodeunt: antheræ oblon-
gæ, incumbentes, albidæ. Germen erectum, oblongum, glabrum, & ex
albo virens: flyli très, breviiîimi„ albi : iligmata fimplicia.
XXXVIÏI.
MELICA UNIFLORA.
B o t a n i c æ.
XXXUI.
Melica panicula rara, erefta, patente: calycibus bifloris, flofculo altero
hermaphrodito, altero neutro. Retz, prodr. flor, fcand, *num, 94, Retz,
obf, 4.
Frequens habitat in folitudinibus, fylvisque denfis, umbrofis, cas-
duis , nec non ad pedes rupium excelfarum Bohemias, Auflria?, 8c. miran-
dum fane, ad noltra usque tempora incognitam latuifle. Radix ei repens,
longiffima, fibrofa, albida aut flavefcens, geniculata, internodiis insquali-
bus, vaginisque aridis, membranaceis, fufcis aut purpurafcentibus undique
bperta, Culmi plures inde feriatim affurgunt, pedales, bipedales & altio-
res, erefti, tenues, rigidiufculi, fupra dimidium foliofi, inferne teretes,
fuperne qua nudi & ad genicula angulati, fubtetragoni, glabri, ftriati las- *
teque virides. Genicula quatuor vel quinque numero inasqualibus interval-
lis a fe invicem diftant, glabra & purpurafcentia, fuperiora fenfim remotio-
ra. Folia erefla, plana, mucronata, laste utrinque viridia, ftriata, glabra,
deorfum, prsprimis margine, fcabriufcula, nervo tenui albicante per
dorlum duflo, ab unciis duabus ad feptem oflove longa, quo fuperiora eo
longiora, lineas duas aut paulo ultra longa. Vagin® fubteretes, ftriatae,
infimas purpurafcentes, fcabr®, fuprem® glaberrim® 8c Ixte virides. Li-
gula ad internatn foliorum bafin fubinde prasfens, arida,' purpurafcens &
in longum acumen produifa : in ejus defeftu foliolum adelt fetaceum, duas,
tres lineas longum. Panicula rara, erecta, patens, fimpliciffi.na, quatuor
quinque uncias & ultra longa, ramis binis Temper conjunftim ex eodem cul-
. mi