OF THE GENUS SYMPHYTUM. 533 
Although Schultz was, as I believe, mistaken in referring this plant to 
S. mediterraneum, it is to him that we owe a complete and unmistakable 
description, and a considerable number of the specimens which are found in 
herbaria. 
In his account of the plant he states that Prof. Huet, an industrious 
collector for the Herbarium normale, had searched in vain for S. mediterraneum, 
Koch, in the neighbourhood of Toulon for twelve years, At length, in 1872, 
Huct sent him the plant which Shuttleworth had found at Hyeres, and had 
named S. floribundum. 
With specimens for the Herbarium Normale, Huet sent roots which 
Schultz cultivated, and when the resulting plants flowered he was enabled to 
draw up a complete description, As no other plant could be found which 
could be taken for S. mediterraneum, Schultz inferred that Shuttleworth’s 
plant was that species, and as the Sicilian plant which Gussone had referred 
to S. mediterraneum was altogether different, he named that S. Gussonez. 
These three species have always been confused by Italian and French 
authors. Grenier and Godron give Koch’s description with the addition of 
that of the root of S. Gussonei ; Coste describes S. floribundum, but attributes 
to it the same kind of root, and Rouy & Foucaud combine the characters and 
citations of all three species. 
It is clear that none of these authors had seen a complete specimen, if any, 
of S. floribundum. 
So far as I have been able to ascertain, this plant has not been gathered 
at Hyères since 1575, and has only been found since at Aups, in 1882, and 
at Ampus (Albert in Jahandiez Cat. Pl. du Var). I have not seen a 
specimen from the latter locality. 
(1903). 
Radiz fusiformis, crassa, carnosa. Caulis pubescens et setis albis seepius e 
15. S. rsEUDOBULBOSUM, slznavour in Bull. Herb. Boiss, sér. i1. iii. p. 588 
tuberculo ortis patentim hirsutus, procerus, valde ramosus, angulatus, inferne 
propter folia longe decurrentia anguste alatus. Folia puberula et setosa, 
inferiora parva, ovato-oblonga, interdum basi subeordata, media majora, 
oblongo-lanceolata, in petiolum alatum attenuata aut contracta, superiora 
decrescentia, ovato-oblonga, sessilia, non vel breviter decurrentia, summa 
basi rotundata vel breviter euneata, omnia acuta. Racemi multiflori, demum 
laxiusculi. Rachis pedicellique pilis uncinatis et sursum curvatis obsiti. 
Calyx fere ad medium in dentes triangulari-lanceolatos acutiusculos partitus, 
fructifer parum accrescens, campanulatus, deflexus. Corolla ochroleuca, 
calyce duplo longior. Fornices late triangulari-lanceolati, acutiusculi, breviter 
exserti. Anthere filamenta æquantes vel fere duplo excedentes. Nucule 
parvæ, supra basin constrictæ, obtusæ, venoso-areolatæ, minuteque tuber- 
culatæ. 
