234 Dr. Smith's Observations respecting 



Plis No. 54 florentinum, Allioni. 

 55 Pilosella. 



I find the late Mr. Dick sent No. 52 to Jacquin, as H, dubium, 

 and hence misled the latter to consider 53 as Auricula, which 

 appears by specimens from his herbarium, given me by Sir Joseph 

 Banks. But indeed Jacquin seems to have confounded the two. 

 The eminent German botanists Roth, Host, and AVilldenow ap- 

 pear to have understood these plants as I do. I trust there can- 

 not in future be any confusion between them, and my anxiety to 

 prevent this must excuse my prolixity on so dry a subject. 



HlERACIUM MURORUM. 



It has been suggested by Mr. Edward Forster, F.L.S., that the 

 real H. murorum of Linnaeus is the /3 of FL Brit. The following 

 particulars will confirm this suggestion, and at the same time ac- 

 count for, if not excuse, my mistake respecting this point. 



Hieracium No. 637, FL Suec. ed. 1, caulc ramoso, foliis radi- 

 calibus ovatis dentatis, caulino minore, the first authority for this 

 Linnaean species, is certainly my variety (3, the H. macrocaulon 

 kirsutum, folio rotundiore, of Ray, and the Round Hawklung of 

 Petiver, t. 13. f. 2. — Pidmonaria gallica sive aurea, Taberna- 

 mont. Ic. 194, is a most excellent representation of it. Pilosella 

 major quibusdam, aliis Pulmonariaflore luteo, of J. Bauhin's Historia, 

 v. 2. 1033, must be the same, his figure being a copy of that of 

 Tabernaemontanus. He gives as its synonym his brother's Hiera- 

 cium murorum, folio pilosissimo. Pin. 129. 



This Swedish plant is preserved in the Linnaean herbarium, 

 marked murorum, and numbered 15 in reference to Sp. PL ed. 1. 

 I have received it from Mr. E. Forster, who observes that it is 

 known by having only one, rather small, cauline leaf, either in 



a wild 



