IN THE WESTERN AZORES. 3 407 
casion I collected Corema alba and Bartsia Trixago, both on 
the cone ascended, and neither of which did I find elsewhere 
in any of the islands visited; also Triticum ciliatum and 
Myosotis maritima, found elsewhere by Guthnick, but only 
on this part of the coast of Pico by myself. Rhus Coriaria was 
likewise gathered on the volcanic cone, and apparently indi- 
genous there, though other localities in which it was ob- 
served, in the islands of Fayal and Flores, were all near 
houses or gardens, and to which I deemed it to have been 
introduced by the hand of man. 
It may be here observed, that the names which are applied 
to some of the plants mentioned in these notes, may be 
disputed by other botanists. The shrub which I have 
called Vaccinium Madetense, is certainly the V. cylindraceum 
of Smith; but I cannot regard it as being specifically distinct 
from V. Maderense, of which, however, it is a very handsome 
variety, with flowers more numerous, and often twice the 
size of those in the Madeira specimens. "Those botanists 
who delight in multiplying species on paper, by describing ex- 
treme forms, in disregard of intermediate and connecting 
links, will doubtless keep V. Maderense and V. cylindraceum 
distinct. The Daphne Laurtola of these notes is the same as 
the plant marked ** Daphne, n. sp." on the labels of Mr. 
Guthnick, and I supposed it a different species when col- 
lected; the more spreading branches and shorter leaves 
inducing a dissimilarity of aspect from the upright shrubs of 
our hedgerows and coppices; but as I detect no essential 
distinctions in the dried specimens, the different mode of 
growth may perhaps be ascribed to the influence of elevation 
and exposure to violent winds. The Lysimachia Azorica (of 
Hornemann) is possibly a variety of L. nemorum, which it 
closely resembles. The specific character assigned to it in 
the Botanical Magazine was drawn from plants cultivated in 
a pot, and is inapplicable to the wild specimens, the stems of 
which are not erect, and are larger, stronger, and more 
branched than those of our indigenous Z. nemorum. Perhaps 
the best distinction lies in the broader sepals of L. Azorica, 
