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and assumed by Smith to be the O. orientale of Linnæus. This is an 
extremely improbable identification, for Podonosma syriacum, which 
is the Linnean O. orientale, is not known from Cyprus. As Sibthorp’s 
herbarium contains no specimen, it is impossible to ascertain what 
species was intended, unless the identity of EvAoPpouSos were to be 
definitely determined by local inquiry in the island. 
No. 422. O. montana. This is represented by a single example, sine loco, in 
Sibthorp’s herbarium. There is a figure of this specimen in Nuov. 
Giorn. Bot. It. xxxi. tab. 3. It is an exceedingly strigose plant, 
with stout bristles, borne on stellate tubercles, spreading in every 
direction, and is identical with sheet no. 5 in Herb. Linn., which has 
been spoken of above. It might therefore be regarded as O. echioides a 
Linn. herb., non Sp. Pl. and is certainly not the O. echioides of 
Smith’s tour or the plant known to Columna, but is identical with the 
very strigose form of O. pallidum Boiss. found in the neighbourhood 
of Smyrna. Sibthorp may have collected it during his stay in that 
city, or possibly on the Bithynian Olympus, the home of O. Aucheri- 
anum DC., Prodr. x. p. 60 (1846) =O. scaberrimum Boiss. et Heldr. 
in Pl. Anat. 1846, both of which names were afterwards united by 
Boissier to his O. pallidum, Diagn. ser. 1, xi. p. 112 (1849), as an 
exceptionally strigose form. Later again, in Fl. Or. iv. p. 201 
(1879), he unfortunately annexed pallidum as var. to O. stellulatum, 
uniting under that variety his original Anatolian pallidum with 
European forms from Greece, Macedonia, and Thrace, that are more 
nearly allied to, if not identical with, O. viride (Borbás) Jávorka. 
As far as Smith’s diagnosis of O. montanum goes it would apply to 
Sibthorp’s specimen, as well as to other forms that no one thinks of calling 
montanum ; but his unfortunate quotation, as synonymous therewith, of 
Columna’s figure and of Tournefort’s Symphytum echii folio angustiore, flore 
luteo, which we have seen tobe identical with Columna’s plant from the 
central Apennines, has led to the misapplication by Italian botanists of the 
name montana to their plant. It seems incredible that Smith should have 
made such a mistake, for in his ‘Sketch of a Tour on the Continent,’ p. 808 
(1793), he tells us: * we came to Valcimira, 136 miles from Home .... At 
the back of the inn I gathered .... Onosma echioides Column. Eephr. 183, 
which seems to be a distinct species from the Linnean variety 8 found about 
Montpellier, being less hairy, and the bristles on the leaves are curiously 
stellated at their base." Exactly so; and in his herbarium lies the very 
specimen that he gathered—a splendid example of Columna's plant, but toto 
celo different from Sibthorp's. We can only suggest that when he was 
going through Sibthorp’s plants he did not take the trouble to compare his 
own specimen collected many years earlier, or he could hardly have failed to 
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