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leaves shows them to be the same species; he knew it from 
Italy only. This figure was copied into Dalechamps, Parkinson, 
and Johann Bauhin's * Historia, the copies even repeating the 
error of six cells to the capsule. Another figure is that given 
by Tabernemontanus as “Althea palustris, Wasser Ybisch," 
the same cut being used in Gerard's * Herball ; but the excellent 
figure of Dodoens is by far the best of the pre-Linnsan cuts. 
Cornuti's figure and description are rough, and he doubtfully 
refers his plant to the Rosa Moscheutos of Pliny, a plant which 
can hardly be determined with accuracy, since Pliny, speaking of 
Roses, only says:—“Alia funditur e caule malvaceo, folia olez 
habenda, moscheutos vocant" (Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xxi. cap. 10). 
It is, I think, much to be regretted that Torrey and Gray, in 
combining H. palustris and H. Moscheutos into one aggregate 
species, should have chosen the least appropriate name; bnt that 
is now too late to remedy. The H. Moscheutos of these authors is, I 
need hardly say, a species of more widely extended character than 
the species of Linnzeus, since Linneus specially excluded from it 
those forms having flowers springing free from the axils. I do 
not see how H. roseus can be kept up as a distinct species; it 
might be combined with the other two; but if not so united, it 
appears to me that it should bear the name of H. palustris, 
Linn. I may mention that there is no specimen of H. palustris 
inthe Linnean Herbarium; but his description was drawn up 
from a plant in Burser's collection, from Caspar Bauhin's garden, 
so far as I understand the curt note in the * Species Plantarum.’ 
Burser had collected plants in Switzerland and Southern France, 
many of which he gave to Bauhin: afterwards he settled in 
Soroe in Denmark, and his collection became part of the spoils 
of war when Carl, King of Sweden, overran that country. Two 
volumes of the original twenty-five were lost in the disastrous 
fire which almost wholly destroyed the town of Upsala ; the rarer 
plants were determined by Pehr Martin in the “Acta scientie 
Suecig, and afterwards more at length by Linn&us in the first 
volume of the “Amcenitates Academics. Being a selection only, 
there happens to be no mention of our plant. 
The Linnean specimen which does duty for H. Moscheutos may 
be that species; but it is deficient in the characteristics, only 
showing buds in a very immature state. There is no specimen of 
H. palustris. 
