432 MR. €. C. LACAITÀ : A REVISION OF 
kindness of Mr. Druce I have inspected, contains no plant from Jersey ; his 
only example of /. plantagineum was sent by Trionfetti and is unnamed. 
That of Dillenius, besides two pieces labelled vulyare, has one labelled 
* Lycopsis C. B. Pin. In agris Blackheath.” This, though thought by 
Sir J. E. Smith to be italicum is nothing but vulgare, as Mr. Druce has 
already stated in ‘The Herbaria of Dillenius p. 75. But in Morison's 
herbarium there is a specimen of his Sechium ramosum annuum flore suave 
rubente, which should be the plant raised from seeds collected by Sherard in 
Jersey, and indeed is referred to plantagineum by Vines and Druce in their 
account of the Morisonian Herbarium. Unfortunately the specimen on 
closer examination turns out not to be plantagineum, as is proved by the 
corollas being pubescent all over and by the indumentum. But the next 
specimen, labelled originally * chium ereticum latifolium rubrum C. B. P. 
and accepted by Vines and Druce as Æ. eretieum, L., is precisely /. planta- 
gineum. It looks as if there had been some interchange of the specimens or 
their labels, and the second specimen was really the one raised from the 
Jersey seeds, 
The volumes of the Sloane herbarium at the British Museum are instrue- 
tive. In vol. 121, containing the Plante Britannice of the Rev. Adam 
Buddle (1660-1715), at p. 6, there is a scrap of /. plantagineum, labelled 
“ FEehii altera species, Dod. ; Lycopsis C. D.," and then, alongside of each 
other, two very similar spikes of Æ. vulgare : one the ordinary form, labelled 
“ Echium flore magno. This I take to be the Lycopsis anglica, Lob. Ger. ete., 
though "tis very common”; the other var. parviflorum labelled “ Echium 
Jlore parvo. This I take to be the /Zehium vulgare CO. B. ete., though very 
searce.” Thus we have Ray’s three kinds on the sheet, and we also 
have the first suggestion of the identification, afterwards adopted by Miller, 
of ©. Bauhin's vulgare with the small-tlowered form. 
In vol. 151, p. 177, among Petiver's plants, are four specimens of which 
two are Æ. vulgare; the third marked “Echium anglicum flore minore, stylo 
tantum evserto” is var, parviflorum, and the fourth, although labelled 
* E. ramosius flore suaveolente H. Ox.," is merely the white-flowered form of 
vulgare. Then in vol. 321, p. 63, among Boerhaave's specimens, is a piece 
of E. plantagineum labelled “ Lycopsis C. B.; Altera anglica, Lob. ; Lehii 
altera species. Dod.” 
To sum up the pre-Linnean position : 
1. Lycopsis altera. anglica Lobel= Kehium pyrenaicum grown by him in 
London. : 
3. Echii altera. species, Dod., is identical with Lobels Lycopsis altera 
anglica. 
3. Lycopsis, C. B. P., is Echium plantagineum, of which he knew the 
pink-purple and the purple-blue variations. 
