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OF THE GENUS SYMPHYTUM. 521 
oblonga, acuta, basi subcordata, in petiolum alatum decurrentia, caulina 
inferiora oblonga, acuta, basi attenuata, superiora ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, 
summa anguste lanceolata, omnia sessilia, semiamplexicaules, non decur- 
rentia. /tacemi multiflori. Rachis pedicellique dense uncinato-pubescentes 
setosique. Calyx hispidus, ultra tertiam partem inferiorem in lacinias 
lineares obtusas ciliatas fissus. Corolla violacea, calycem duplo subtriplove 
superans. Fornices late lineares, obtusi, staminibus longiores aut breviores. 
s[nthere basi obtuse filamenta æquantes. 
Symphytum armeniacum. 
a. Flower. b. Corolla, opened to show stamens and corolla-scales. x 2. 
Caulis (in specimenibus incompletis) 3-35 dem. altus; folia radicalia 
2:5 dem. longa, 1:2 dem. lata, caulina inferiora 13 em. longa, 5 cm. lata, 
summa 3-5 em. longa, 1-1:5 em. lata; flores 13-18 mm. longi; calyx 
5-7 mm. longus ; corolla 13-15 mm. longa. 
Groar. Disrr.—Russia : Georgia, Caucasus. Turkey: Armenia. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED :—8. asperrimum (No. 286) and 53. caucasicum, 
Bieb. Georgia, Cauc. Т. F. Hohenacker, 1831; 5. caucasicum, Bieb. 
Georgia, Сапе. R. T. Hohenacker, 1838. Herb. Fielding.—8S. sp., Erze- 
rum. Calvert, No. 222 (reed. 1867). Herb. Univ. Сатай. and Fielding. — 
S. asperrimum, Sims. In montibus pr. Nachitschewan (Transcaucasia). 
P. Buhse, 1893. Herb. Kew. 
When I first recognised this as an undescribed species, and as distinct 
from the other members of the Cerulea, the specimen in the Cambridge 
herbarium was the only one that I had seen. This was collected in Armenia 
by Calvert (No. 222), at some time previous to 1366. As far as I was 
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aware, no other specimen existed either in the British or Genevan col- 
lections, until, on examination of the Fielding herbarium, I found several 
plants which were undoubtedly the same. One of these is Calvert? 
No. 222 ; three others, collected in Georgia by the Hohenackers ii 1831 and 
1838, are named, one of them S. asperrimum, and two others S. caucasicum. 
As other plants so named by the same collectors are typical, this is an 
instance of the confusion which arises when two names have to serve for 
three different species. 
LINN. JOURN.—BOTANY, VOL. XLI. 9o 
