428 MR. C. C. LACAITA : A REVISION OF 
Cat. Hort. Bot. Pest.* (1827), ex Houy, Fl. Fr. x. p. 306, and in Reichb. 
Fl. Exc. p. 336 (1830). It has no claim to rank as a species, or even 
as a variety, being merely a sexual modification of E. vulgare occasionally 
found mixed with the type.T St. Amans states that both forms of corolla 
had beeu found on the same plant by the banks of the Garonne by 
M. Chaubard. The varying behaviour of seedlings from the pistillate form 
is discussed by Rouy in a footnote. Type-specimens of Ly Wierzbicki, 
collected by Dr. Wierzbicki in the Banat, may be seen at Kew and at the 
British Museum. They are very exactly figured in Reichb, Fl. Germ. 
iab. 1298. fig. 3. Others with less extremely small corollas are at Kew 
from St. Amans's locus classicus on the Garonne, from Aurillac in Savoy, 
from Tal y Clawdd, near Ruabon, N. Wales, and elsewhere. 
But Miller appears to have accidentally transposed the names anglicum 
and vulgare. He was, as usual, describing under no. 1 a garden plant— one 
not known to him as a British native, for he says “it grows naturally in 
Xermany and Austria, from whence I received the seeds.” The only 
specimen in his herbarium marked “ angliewm” is precisely the common 
E. vulgare, L., with protruding stamens, which therefore represents his no. 2, 
not this no. 1. Moreover, the name anglicum is derived from Lobel’s Lycopsis 
anglica, which Miller quotes as a synonym of his no. 2, whereas he cites 
E. vulgare, C. B. P., for no. 1, though it is quoted by Linnæus for 7. vulgare. 
Hudson, Fl. Angl. pp. 69, 70 (1762), had already used the names anglicum 
and vulgare, but in an opposite sense from Miller, for his vulgare is defined 
“caule simplici erecto, foliis caulinis lanceolatis hispidis, floribus spicatis 
lateralibus, staminibus eorollam æquantibus,” which is Miller's diagnosis of 
his anglicum, whilst Hudson uses the name anglicum for the common British 
plant, and defines it (quoting Lycopsis anglica Lobelit) as “caule simplici 
erecto, foliis lanceolato-linearibus hispidis, floribus spicatis lateralibus, 
staminibus corolla longioribus," this being the phrase which Miller applies 
to his Æ. vulgare. Hudson professes to be quoting both these phrases from 
Mill. Dict. Hort. edit. 6, which is not in accordance with fact, for Miller first 
used them in his seventh edition of 1759. They do not oceur in the sixth 
edition of 1752, where Lehium vulgare alone is named, with no allusion to the 
length of the stamens. In ed. 2, p. 83 (1778), Hudson reduces Æ. anglicum 
to /. vulgare var. anglicum. 
Miller's second species, Æ. vulgare, is precisely JE. vulgare, L., whose 
diagnostic phrase, which originally appeared in Hort, Cliff. p. 45 (1737), he 
eopies with the addition of the words * staminibus corolla longioribus." 
These words and his statement that “this second sort grows naturally upon 
* T have not been able to see a copy of this work, and Rouy does not mention the page. 
T For E, Wierzbickii, see Coincy in Bull, Herb. Boiss, ser. 2, i. pp. 789-792, 
