346 Sir J. E. Smitu’s Characters 
T. apulum minimum. Column. Ecphr. p. 1. 192. t. 124. Tourn. 
Inst. 320. Raï Hist. 412. Moris. Hist. v. 3. 316. sect. 9. t. 16. 
7.6. | : A^ 
Seseli creticum minimum. Bauh. Pin. 161. 
A variety is subjoined from Boerhaave's Hort. Lugd. Bat. con- 
cerning which nothing can be ascertained ; and as Linnæus never 
again adverted to this supposed variety, we must leave it unde- 
tétitibed. | 
In the first edition of Sp. PI. 239, the Tordylium in question 
appears with the specific name apulum, and the above essential 
characters, with a reference to Hort. Cliff. and to: Van Royen’s 
Prodr. Lugd. Bat. 94. But its other synonyms are limited to 
' Columna and Bauhin, as above cited. 
Now it appears that the synonyms of Columna and Rivinus 
belong to two very different plants. Which of these is to be taken 
for the T. apulum of Linneus? There being no specimen in his 
herbarium, the specific character must be resorted to as our safest 
guide, and this agrees with the plant of Rivinus, not of Columna ; 
** pinnis subrotundis laciniatis.” Such was doubtless the plant of 
the Hortus Cliffortianus, which appears by the Viridarium Clif- 
fortianum to have been cultivated at Hartecamp, and was there- 
fore seen alive by Linnæus. Such likewise is T. apulum of Jac- 
quin, Hort. Vindob. v. 1. t. 58, which that author afterwards find- 
ing not to answer to the synonym of Columna, he thought he had 
mistaken the Tinnæan name, and in the 3d volume of the same 
work, p. 2, he refers his plant to the Linnean T. officinale. 
. On the contrary, it appears to me that Columna's figure repre- 
bd merely a starved variety of officinale, under which species I 
have long ago quoted it, with a mark of doubt, in Fl- Brit. ; and 
that Jacquin has described the genuine apulum of Hives and 
Linnzus. 
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