268 Dr. Smrru’s Remarks on the Synonyms und 
recently figured by Ventenat in his splendid Jardin de la Malmai- 
son, t. 118; as well as two wild Siberian specimens of the plant 
figured by Gmelin, v. 4. ¢. 69. This last figure is quoted in the 
second Mantissa, p. 455, for H. Ascyron, which Gmelin thought 
it to be, perhaps rightly; but the calyx is much larger than 
usual, and very unequal, so as to raise a doubt in my mind. 
The main point, however, respecting our present inquiry is esta- 
blished, that the true H. Ascyron, which is the Ascyron magne 
flore, Bauh. Pin. 280, Prod. 130, is a native of the Pyrenees ; 
perhaps also of moist meadows in Siberia. My next object was 
to ascertain what Tournefort understood by the above phrase of 
Bauhin, adopted in his Institutiones Rei Herbarie, 256, under 
which he quotes Morison, who, as I have said, confounds two 
species together. This question is decided by Tournefort’s t 131, 
f. 2, evidently drawn from H. Ascyron and not from H. calycinum, 
which last it appears Tournefort never knew, otherwise he could 
not have passed it over. ‘he next botanist after Sir George 
Wheeler who gathered H. calycinum wild was the late Professor 
John Sibthorp, who found it in the woods about the village of 
Delgrad near Constantinople, no doubt the same place where 
Wheeler first discovered it. The situation is not unlike that near 
Cork where Mr. Drummond found our specimen, sheltered, and 
of no considerable elevation, with a southern exposure towards 
the sea. Dr. Sibthorp has left a figure of this plant for the Flora 
Greca, which is one of Mr. Ferdinand Bauer’s most exquisite 
drawings; but he mistook it for H. Ascyron, and has therefore 
quoted "'ournefort's synonym above mentioned. No other plant 
in this writers Institutiones or Corollarium, as far as I can dis- 
cover, can possibly be referred to H. calycinum. Ventenat de- 
termined his Aseyrum erectum, salicis folio, magno flore, Inst. 256; 
by Jussieu's herbarium, to be H. pyramidatum. | 
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