above mentioned 4. vulgaris, which has a range of upwards of 
2000 miles in latitude, namely, from Mid-Norway in lati- 
tude 64°, to the Atlas Mountains in latitude 32°, descend- 
ing to 4000 feet in the valleys of the latter. Of the period 
of flowering I can say nothing; but a comparison of the 
figure now given with the Magazine plate of 4. /eptoceras 
(Tab. 4407) or with that in the Botany of Beechey’s Voyage 
(Tab. 72), under the name of macrantha, shows no appreciable 
difference in the size of the flowers, and the spurs are even 
longer in dried specimens of 4. /eptoceras. With regard to 
colour, though 4. /eptoceras is usually described as only blue 
and white, Nuttall, its discoverer, calls it ochroleucous, and 
Burke, who collected it in the Snake country, sent specimens 
thus coloured. These facts, taken in conjunction with the 
known variability of the genus, lead me to adopt Mr. Back- 
house’s opinion (appended to Dr. Gray’s description in the 
Gardener’s Chronicle), that this is but a form, and not a very 
decided one, of the American A. /eptoceras. 
There is still a doubt as to the propriety of adopting for 
this plant the name of /eptoceras, which was given originally 
by Fischer, to what is now known to be a very different one 
from Siberia (see Bot. Reg., vol. xxxiii. t. 64), and of which I 
have examined indifferent specimens from the St. Petersburg 
Garden. In the Flora Indica, published in 1855, Dr. Thom- 
son and I have referred this, which has quite short spurs, 
to a form of 4. vulgaris, identical with A. pyrenaica, DC., an 
opinion which, if accepted, will admit of Jeptoceras being re- 
tained for the American plant. 
I am indebted to Mr. Backhouse for the specimen here 
figured, which flowered with him in June last, and was very © 
fragrant.— J. D. H. 
