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Zuccarini expressly says of his plant (Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. ii. 
191), * Exemplare aus der Gegend von Ochozk t und aus dem 
östlichen Sibirien waren mit den japanischen vollkommen über- 
einstimmend." Moreover I have received from M. Maximo- 
wiez, under the name of Youngia pygmea, Zucc., a plant gathered 
in fallow ricefields at Nagasaki (and not enumerated in Miquel's 
* Prolusio Flore Japonice’), which I refer, without the slightest 
hesitation, to Youngia pygmea, ò. lyrata, of Ledebour's “Flora 
Rossica.’ It has 10-striate linear-laneeolate achenes, completely 
erostrate, and scarcely even narrowed at the apex, which is 
crowned by a thickened disk; the dried flowers are of a pale and 
dirty purplish hue. This is no doubt identical with Crepis nana, 
Richards. ; but, as remarked by Torrey and Gray (Fl. N. Amer. ii. 
488), it has nothing to do with Barkhausia, to which it was referred 
by DeCandolle and Turezaninow.  Zveris stolonifera, A. Gr., 
has an exceedingly long, delicate, thread-like beak to the fruit. 
*Scevola Koenigii, Vahl; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 86. (=S. Lobelia, De 
Vr.; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 198.) 
Mr. Bentham has shown that Linneus never called this species 
S. Lobelia ; the name now adopted is the oldest. 
*Lobelia. 
I believe Z. trigona, Roxb., and L. affinis, Wall, to be distinct 
species; and they are so regarded by Drs. Hooker and Thomson, 
in the * Precursores ad Floram Indicam’ (Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 
27). The former is, as described by Roxburgh, an erect branch- 
ing plant, sometimes slightly ereeping at the base, and with 
broad, ovate, subsessile or sessile leaves, and glabrous pedicels 
and calyx-tube ; it grows always, I believe, in moist grassy places, 
and is not, that I am aware, a native of Hongkong or Southern 
China. Z. affinis has a quite different habit; it shows no dis- 
position whatever to grow upright, but creeps extensively, throw- 
ing out rootlets at intervals ; the leaves are conspicuously stalked, 
usually larger and wider than those of the last, somewhat deltoid 
in outline, and more or less pubescent; the pedicels and calyx- 
tube are pilose, the latter in fruit somewhat less distinctly ribbed. 
This I have found always in sheltered places, often growing on 
steep sides of ravines, or in small glens. The two species are, as 
stated by Drs. Hooker and Thomson, often confounded; and my 
+ I do not find the species recorded in Trautvetter and Meyer’s ‘ Florula 
Ochotensis,' nor yet in Regel and Tiling's * Floryla Ajanensis.’ 
