several British Species of Hierucimin 2%g 



but its original character is unchanged, nor is there any altera- 

 tion in the synonyms, except that Tournefort's is omitted, and a 

 reference to the Sp. riant, introduced. There is however the 

 following observation. 



" lxarissime et passim occurrit, sequenti major, forte ln/brida tel 

 alia qualiscunquc varietas, omnibus partibus major, ncc repens." 



This note is very puzzling, as contradicting the specific cha- 

 racter, and J conceive it alludes not to the plant in its usual state, 

 but to a supposed variety, being to be understood as follows. 



" It very rarely here and there occurs of a larger size than the 

 following" (which is what I take for Auricula) " and is perhaps 

 a mule or some other kind of variety, larger in all its parts, and 

 not creeping." 



Now this agrees with H. ambiguum of Ehrhart's Herb. 108, ga- 

 thered by him at Upsal, and which is really the ci/?nosum of Lin- 

 naeus, though not mentioned as such in the Fl. Suec. This spe- 

 cies is indeed larger than my Auricula, though otherwise resem- 

 bling it, and rarely throws out any creeping scyons. 



I shall conclude my evidences of H. dubium y where in most 

 cases I should have begun, with a reference to the Linnaean her- 

 barium. There we find one specimen only of the plant which I 

 take for such, marked in ink " No. 6. dubium?" (with a sign of 

 doubt) without any place of growth,. or any pencil mark; which 

 last is found on most of the authentic specimens that Linnaeus 

 had before him when he wrote the 1st edition of Sp. Plant* being 

 preparatory to his final distribution of them. The No. 6 refers 

 to that work, but his own copy of it is not marked with a re- 

 ference to his herbarium, as if he had had an authentic specimen 

 there. 



There is no alteration nor addition respecting this species in 



the 



