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investigation. So far I have not seen specimens that support this statement, 
but it can only be definitely confirmed in the field. 
to 
In the old herbaria I have found sundry specimens undoubtedly referable 
plantagineum, but bearing strange determinations, the species having 
remained unrecognised until Linneus’s * Mantissa? was published :— 
(1) In Herb. Morison (at Oxford) labelled “ E. eretieum latifolium rubrum 
C. B. P. E. ereticum Clus.” 
(2) Herb. Sloane, vol. 168, p. 12, among Banister’s collection : “4. ereti- 
cum P. Alpini." 
(3) Herb. Sloane, vol. 321, p. 63, among Boerhaave's specimens are two 
pieces of plantagineum beside each other, labelled respectively 
* Lycopsis C. B. 255. Altera anglica Lob. 684. — Echii altera species 
Dod. 904 " and * Anchusa Lusitanica non descripta ab expertissimo 
Dom. C. .. . (illegible) apud. quem floruit anno 1686 in Viridario 
Lusitanico." 
(4) Hort. Cliff. labelled by the first hand Æ. folio asperrimo et verrucoso 
and by the second hand Æ. vulgare. 
(5) Hort. Cliff. labelled by the first hand Æ. creticum latifolium rubrum 
and by the second /. eretieum. j 
(6) Hort. Cliff. labelled by the first hand 77. eretieum angustifolium rubrum 
(although identical with no. 5) and by the second. eretieum. 
(7) Herb. Pallas, labelled X. violaceum. 
(8) Herb. Helvet. in Hb. Dick, labelled by Solander X. violaceum, L. 
(9) Herb. Miller (probably), labelled in Mi.ler's hand * Æ. ereticum caly- 
cibus fructescentibus remotis H. U. 85; 7. creticum latifolium rubrum 
C, B. P." and by Solander Æ. ereticum. (The smaller piece on this 
sheet, marked H. L. S. = Hortus Linn:ei siccus, is not plantagineum 
but really Æ. ereticum, herb. Linn.) 
(10) Herb. Heg. Paris, 1827, originally labelled J£. maritimum ins. 
Stoechadum jl. Maximo Tourn. Inst. 136 (which is represented in 
Hb. Tournef. No. 591 by a specimen of Æ. grandiflorum, Dest.), 
but by Miller Æ. caule erecto hispido, foliis lin.-lane. hispido-pilosis, 
semiampleaicaulibus, floribus spicatis terminalibus, and by Solander 
E. orientale. This is the specimen which explains Smith's query 
on the Linnean specimen D. Of course, it has nothing to do with 
E. orientale, L. 
Al these specimens except the first are in the British Museum. 
