Minuartia hirsuta subsp. frutescens, (Kit.) Hand. - Mazz. Minuartia eurytanica, (Boiss. & Heldr.) Hand. - Mazz. Minuartia recurva, (All.) Schinz & Thell.

(c) Subsp. frutescens (Kit.) Hand.-Mazz. View in CoL , Ann. Naturh. Mus. (Wien) 23: 152 (1909):

2« = 30, 32. • N. Hungary; Carpathians; Bulgaria.

Plants from S.W. Romania having pedicels more than 3 times as long as the sepals and sepals 7-8 mm, have been called M. cataractarum Janka , Math. Term. Közl. 12: 165 (1874).

25. M. eurytanica (Boiss. & Heldr.) Hand.-Mazz. View in CoL , Ann. Naturh. Mus. (Wien) 23: 153 (1909).

Glabrous perennial, rarely sparsely glandular-pubescent. Leaves falcate, rather wide. Pedicels equalling sepals. Sepals 6 mm, lanceolate; margin broadly scarious; petals linear-lanceolate, truncate at the base, equalling sepals. Mountain rocks. 9 C. Greece. Gr.

26. M. recurva (All.) Schinz & Thell. View in CoL , Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2,7: 404 (1907)

( Alsine recurva (All.) Wahlenb. ).

Densely caespitose perennial; stems woody and often black below; flowering stems usually up to 12 cm; plant sparsely glandular-pubescent, at least above. Leaves 4-10 mm, 3-veined, falcate. Cymes 1- to 8- flowered; pedicels up to 3 times as long as sepals. Sepals 3-25- 5-5(-6) mm, ovate-lanceolate, 5- to 7-veined; petals and capsule slightly exceeding sepals. Seeds 1-2 mm, weakly tuberculate. Usually calcifuge. Mountains o f S. & S.C. Europe from Portugal to the S. Carpathians. Al Au Bu G a G r He Hs It Ju Lu Rm Si.

(a) Subsp. recurva: Cymes 1- to 3(-5)-flowered; bracts 3- to 5-veined. Outer sepals 3-25-4-25 mm, 5-veined. 2n=3O. Throughout the range o f the species, but absent from Sicilia.

(b) Subsp. juressi(Willd. ex Schlecht.) Mattf. View in CoL , Bot. Jahrb. 126: 31 (1921)

(inch M. engleri Mattf. ):

More robust than (a); flowering stems up to 15 cm. Cymes 3- to 8-flowered; bracts 5- to 7-veined. Outer sepals 4-5-5(-6) mm, 7-veined. Sicilia; S. & C. Italy; W. part o f Balkan peninsula. Al G r It Ju Si.

Although this subspecies appears fairly distinct, and has often been accorded specific rank, plants intermediate between the two subspecies occur in the Iberian peninsula, S. France and the S.E. Alps.