228 Dr. Smith's Observations respecting 



we can only by other authorities judge between the two, and 

 these accord with his note in Vaillant. 



3. Dens leonis, qui Pilosella folio tninus villoso. Tourn. Inst. 46*9- 

 Against this Linnaeus has written, in his own copy, 11. dubium, 

 and the hand-writing, as well as the colour of the ink, agrees 

 with names written in his herbarium when the Species ¥ bant arum 

 was first published. From Tournefort's work nothing is even to 

 be guessed but by means of his synonyms. He quotes Bauhin's 

 Pinax, hereafter mentioned, also Pilosella major of Camerarius's 

 Epitome, 709, drawn with one large flower on each stalk ; v and 

 Pilosella minor, folio angustiore, minus piloso, repens, J, Bauh. 

 Hist, v. 2. 1040, which has long lanceolate sharp leaves, many 

 small flowers on a stalk, and appears to be either my H, Auricula, 

 or H. cymosum; but the description throws no light upon the sub- 

 ject, and perhaps does not belong to the figure. 



4. Pilosella major repens minus hirsuia. Bauh, Pin, 262. Lin- 

 naeus has likewise written H, dubium here in his copy of the 

 Pinax. Bauhin quotes the Pilosella major of Camer, Epit, and 

 also Lactucella sylvestris repens of the same author, in his Jlor- 

 tus, 82, where is to be found a description agreeing with my 

 H. dubium much better than with Auricula. 



In the first edition of Sp, PI. Linnaeus quotes no synonyms 

 but this of Bauhin, and his own El. Suec. just mentioned; ex- 

 cept Dalibard, from whom nothing is here to be learned, and 

 Sauvages, who merely mentions that the leaves of his plant are 

 lanceolato-ovalia ; but this accords with my H. dubium and not 

 with Auricula : it therefore establishes the propriety of his syn- 

 onym. 



In the second edition of Ft, Suecica, which comes next in 

 chronological order, H, dubium appears with its specific name, 



but 



