238 Dr. Smith's Observation* respecting 



with respect to Bauhin ; and Lobel's account, such as it is, of 

 this plant, in his Adversaria 253, should seem to belong to what 

 Bauhin intended, the II. muroriim of Linnanis ; while the figure 

 in Lobel's Observationes 317, and Icones 587, is a very different 

 thing, being the very same cut as Johnson uses in Ger. em. 304. 

 How Lobel came by this cut I know not, but it unquestionably 

 belongs to Johnson's description. Ray adopts this plant entirely 

 on Johnson's authority, Syn. ed. 2. 74 ; and Dillenius does the 

 same, ed. 3. lo'8, only adding a Welch station for it, on the au- 

 thority of Dr. Richardson . What the plant of Richardson may 

 be, matters little. My friend Dr. Lamb, F.L.S., has helped me 

 to decide upon the plant of Johnson, by means of a specimen 

 gathered about 10 yards to the south of the abovesaid decuman 

 port, and I have perceived with unfeigned surprise, that it is no 

 other than a variety of Cineraria integrifolia! The specimen is 

 more dilated and less woolly than usual, and so precisely accords 

 with the figure and description in Ger. em. that the only wonder 

 is how any person could take the original plant for a Hieracium. 

 Peace be to the manes of Johnson, Lobel, and Ray, while they 

 settle among themselves their appropriate shares of the error ! — 

 I believe no other British genus can afford an example of two 

 such mistakes in Ray as this and what I have noticed concern- 

 ing H. muroriim. The synonyms of Ray and Ger. em. as well as 

 Petiver's t. 13. f. 5, a copy of the latter, are therefore to be re- 

 moved from H. sylvaticum in the Fl. Brit, to designate a variety 

 of Cineraria integrifolia. 



Now whether Dr. Withering found this Cineraria on Dudley 

 castle hill, or whether the plant of Richardson and Dfllenius 

 be the same or not, I have no means of determining. By Wi- 

 thering's reference to Allioni's tab. 28. f. I, which that author 

 confounds under Hieracium murorum, and to the H. sylvaticum 

 of Gouan, (whose description well agrees with H. muroriim « FL 



Brit., 



