538 Mr. FonsrEn's Observations on the Esula major Germanica. 
of plants which had previously been considered distinct by eminent botanical 
authors, without marking them with the usual Greek characters, is uncour- 
teous and tending to great confusion, I insert the E. palustris of the Linnzean 
Herbarium as a variety. I am not sufficiently acquainted with Æ. procera and 
villosa to be able to judge whether they should also be so considered. 
The restoration of this Spurge to a place in the British Flora fully vindicates - 
the accuracy of Lobel, who has been accused of noting plants as English on 
insufficient authority. He perhaps discovered it when on a visit to his friend 
Edward Saint Loo, who resided in Somersetshire, and was much attached to 
the study of botany. "That it has a right to be so ranked, after an abode of 
nearly three centuries, the most sceptical must allow, even though it might 
have escaped from the neighbouring grounds of the Prior of Bath, or from the 
physic gardens of the herbarists of that city. 
