SOME CRITICAL SPECIES OF ECHIUM. 379 
There is an Æ. vulgare, var. salmanticum, Coiney, in Morot’s Journ. Bot, xiv. 
p. 304 (1900), which must not be confused with Æ. salmanticum, Lag. The 
specimen in de Coincy’s herbarium, gathered by him at Salamanea on 
May 28th, 1892, on which his var. salmanticum is based, is very poor, hardly 
in flower, and I should have thought altogether too scanty to justify a new 
name. I rather doubt its being a form of vulgare. 
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THE GENUS ECHIUM IN THE HERBARIA OF TOURNEFORT, 
JUSSIEU, AND LAMARCK. 
These three famous herbaria, now in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle at 
Paris, are so important for the genus Echium that the following list of the 
specimens they contain may be useful. The first two have been examined 
and annotated by that minutely observant botanist, J. Gay. The third was 
not accessible to him, owing to its strange adventures. J, B. Monnet, 
chevalier de la Marck, ended his life in straightened circumstances in 1829, 
A few years before (1824) his herbarium had been bought, at the suggestion 
of Alexander von Humboldt, by J. A. C. Roeper, who took it with him to 
Bale, and thence to Rostock, where he filled the chair of botany. From 
Roeper it was bought by the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg for the University 
of Rostock, and there remained till 1887, when it was offered for sale to pro- 
vide funds of which the University was in need, and was purchased, with 
the help of the French government, for the Museum of Paris * -— 
I. Hers. TOURNEFORT. 
no. 584 Sine nomine aut loco ; leaves only ; undeterminable. 
» 985 “ Echium majus et asperius flore albo," labelled by Gay in 1834 
“ E. pyrenaicum Desf.," which it is not. The specimen consists 
of the upper part only of two stems, and is a wide-spreading form 
of E. italicum, L., which the French botanists often confuse with 
E. pyrenaicum. 
586 “ Echium majus et asperius flore dilute purpureo Bot. Monsp.,” 
labelled by Gay “ E. pyrenaicum Desf.," which in this case is 
correct. It consists of two branches broken off a stem. 
987 no label of origin, but labelled by Gay * Verisimiliter Ech. am- 
plissimo folio lusitanicum (specimen minus evolutum)= Echium 
lusitanicum Linn. Poir. etc." This is exactly the lusitanicum of 
herb. Linn. =Æ. Broteri, Sampaio. 
* This information is collected from Bureau, “Sur l'entrée de l'herbier de Lamarck au 
Muséum d'Histoire naturelle," in Comptes Rendus, Ac. Sci. Par. 104, p. 187 (1887), and 
Bonnet, * L'herbier de Lamarck” in Morot's Journ. Bot. vi. p. 129 (1902). 
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