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country, but no. I. is a broader-leaved variety that occurs frequently in 
Dalmatia and occasionally in some parts of Italy, to which Scheele in 1843 
gave the name of O. dalmaticum. 
Through the kindness of my friend Signor Loreto Grande, whose home is 
in Columna’s country, I have seen sufficient specimens, both from the 
Cicolano itself and from Villavallelonga south of the old lake, to feel sure 
that Columna’s plant is identical with the O. montanum of Ten. Syll. p. 85 
(non Sibth. & Sm.), which I know well in other parts of southern Italy and 
which Sir J. E. Smith collected at Valeimara in the Marches, 136 miles north 
of Rome, on April 29th, 1787, and at once recognized as * Onosma echivides 
Column. Eephr. 183, which seems to be a distinct species from the Linnean 
variety B found about Montpelier, being less hairy and the bristles on the 
leaves are curiously stellated at their bases? (see Smith's ‘Sketch of a 
Tour on the Continent,’ p. 308, ed. 1793). 
Sundry Italiap botanists have hesitated to use the name echioides for this 
species, and have called it stellulatum Waldst. et Kit., which is altogether 
wrong, or cinereum Schreb., which is still more wrong, or montanum Sibth. 
et Sm., a pitfall into which they have been decoyed by Smith’s later mistake 
in Prodr, Fl. Gree , of which more below, 0, angustifolium Lehm. would be 
nearer the mark, as it is the name given by Lehmann to a very closely- 
related form, confined to Apulia, where it was first collected by Sieber and 
which I regard as a subsp. or variety of Columna’s Onosma. 
It is unfortunate that the Linnean herbarium does not give us more help 
towards the identification of echioides a. It contains only one asterotrichous 
specimen of Onosma, no. 5, originally labelled by Linnæus, in ink that is 
now very faint, ** Certnthe orientalis echioides?” and relabelled by him at 
some later date in darker ink, “echioides” ; he has also written a tergo 
“ Symphytum orientale flore luteo.” The only other writing on the sheet is 
an abbreviated word, which may refer to the locality whence the plant came 
or to the eorrespondent who sent it; but it is so illegible that even 
Dr. Daydon Jackson is unable to decipher it. The original reference of the 
specimen to Cerinthe points to Linneus having received it before he created 
the genus Onosma, and the orientalis both on the back and the front to the 
origin being Asiatic. Symphytum orientale flore luteo was probably intended 
to refer to one of the oriental species mentioned in Tournefort's * Corollarium’, 
but that precise name does not occur there. There can be little doubt that 
the specimen is Anatolian; it is certainly not Columna’s species nor, as 
Boissier thought, ©. stellulatum Waldst. et Kit., but agrees exactly with the 
very strigose form of ©. pallidum Boiss. which is found near Smyrna. It so 
happens that it is identical with the unique specimen of O. montanum in 
herb, Sibthorp, which, as will be explained below, is not the plant published 
under that name by Smith in Fl. Gr. Prodr. Its only claim therefore to 
represent echioides a lies in the strongly asterotrichous indumentum. Smith 
