240 Dr. Smith's Observa tions respecting 



jB. Ilicracium leptocaulon hirsutum, folio Iongiore. Rail Syn. 

 cd. 2.74. eel. 3. l6'9? 

 IT. sylvaticum. FL Dan. t. 1113. 

 IT. murorum y. FL Brit. 830. 



H. pulmonarioides. Villars Dauph. v. 3. 133. t. 34 ? 

 II. glaucum pilosum, foliis parum dentatis. Dill. FJth. 180. 



t. 149 ? 



Some uncertainty arises with respect to the synonym of Ray 

 for this variety, from his saying that " as far as he remembers, 

 there were no leaves on the stem of his plant, but all grew from 

 the root." This, if true, agrees with the genuine H. murorum, 

 and makes me more than half inclined to remove the said sy- 

 nonym to the cut-leaved variety (/3) of II. murorum; yet the 

 words folio Iongiore certainly agree best with the species before 

 us. and such is Mr. E. Forster's opinion. We must look to some 

 "Westmoreland botanist to decide this question. Petiver's au- 

 thority may not be thought of much weight, but he gives as a 

 representation of this plant of Ray a copy of the Fulmonaria 

 gallica fazmina of Tabernaemontanus, which I have already cited 

 under II. murorum /3. The description of Ray accords perfectly 

 with this, except that he has not noticed the remarkable incisions 

 in the leaves ; and on the other hand the slenderness of the stem 

 does not agree with the plant now under consideration, whose 

 stem is stout and leafy. 



This variety of II. sylvaticum was brought from Westmoreland 

 to Norwich in the year 1781, by the late Mr. Crowe, and having 

 been planted in his garden, has since naturalized itself in the 

 neighbourhood, in my own garden among others. Its leaves are 

 elegantly speckled with black, and of a darker green than the 

 common kind. The whole plant is also larger and stronger, with 

 very numerous flowers, but I can find no specific mark of di- 

 stinction, 



