570 Mr. Sabine's Observations 



ences at Paris, which is quoted, is an enumeration of Corymbi- 

 ferous flowers ; he mentions two varieties of the plant referred 

 to ; the first is that of Plukenet's Amaltheum above mentioned ; 

 the second (which is the plant especially quoted) is a double- 

 ilowering one, noticed in the Catalogue* of Petiver's Museum, 

 published in London in 1695, as a specimen existing in it, and 

 there called Matricaria Madraspatana, Jtore pleno flavescente. 



The Flora Zeylanica, which was published by Linneeus in 1747 

 (the reference to which follows that to Vaillant's paper), makes 

 two varieties, after the example of that writer. The a, or the 

 first, is the second variety of the Species Plant arum, and being a 

 double flower, is also referred to the plants of Vaillant, of Mo- 

 rison, of Ray's History (noticed below), of Petiver's Museum, 

 of Plukenet's Almagestum, and to the Tsjetti-pu of the Hortus 

 Malabaricus. The Var. /3 is Vaillant's first variety, and is re- 

 ferred to that as well as to the plant of Plukenet's Amaltheum. 

 Linnaeus, in the description of these varieties, seems to have 

 misplaced them by putting the double-flowering one as the type ; 

 he changed this arrangement in the Species Plant arum, the a of 

 the Flora Zeylanica being the /3 of the Species Plant arum 9 and 

 the variety /3 being the a. In addition to the quotations in the 

 work which are mentioned above, and which I have placed to- 

 gether, because they are all referred to in the Species Plantarum, 

 there is for the variety a, a reference to the Matricaria fiore pleno 

 magno of Hermann's Museum Zeylanicum^, and of Burmann's 

 Thesaurus Zeylanicus\\ the former work being Hermann's Cata- 

 logue of his own Herbarium, collected by himself in Ceylon ; 

 the latter is a more general catalogue of Singhalese plants, 

 founded on another Herbarium of Hermann's as well as on other 

 collections. Besides the references, Linnaeus gives the follow- 

 ing short description of his plant : 



* Museum Petiver. p. 7(j. no. 786. f page 33. % page 153. 



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