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refers his plant to ineisum, but uses the name L. hybridum, Villars, 

 " Fl. Dauph.," i. 250, 1786. (In his second volume it should be 

 noted that Villars reduces his plant to a var. of purpureuni). There 

 is also the name L. dissectum\ With., " Arr. Brit. PL," ed. 3, vii. 

 527, 1796. G. Meyer also called it a hybrid, L. amplexicaule x 

 piirpureum, in 1849. Syme (" Eng. Bot.," ed. 3, vii. 73, 1867) 

 seems to be the first British author to use Sender's name. 



Various authors reduce ineisum to a sub-species l of purpureum 

 = others to a variety. 2 



Thus the variety of purpureuin, called dedpiens by British 

 botanists (with the ring of hairs in the corolla) seems not to be 

 Sender's plant. A. BENNETT. 



Alehemilla vulgaris, L., and A. eonjuneta, Bab. In the " Ann. 

 Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1895, pp. 47-49, the Rev. E. F. Linton gave the 

 result of many specimens submitted to M. Buser of Geneva (who 

 had written on and studied these plants). 



These forms were identified by him as British ; i.e. A. vulgaris, L. 



a, pratensis (Schmidt), b, alpestris (Schmidt), 



c, filicaulis (Buser), 



the parenthesis of course meaning the names had been given as 

 species. Reference was also made to varietal names of 1823 and 

 1824. In Schmidt's original descriptions in his " Fl. Bohemica," 

 1794, p. 88, they appeared as species. Pohl in his "Tentamen Fl. 

 Bohemica," 1810, p. 152, describes as varieties eight forms under 

 A. vulgaris, L. 



Of these his a, pratensis = A. pratensis, Schmidt. 

 8, alpestris = A. alpestris, Schmidt. 



his other names are : 



/?, sylvestris. e, conglomerata. 77, hybrida. 



y, montana. , paniculata. v, glaberrima. 



Under "hybrida" he refers his plant to A. vulgaris, ft hybrida, 

 L., Sp. PI. p. 179, A. hybrida, Mill., "Diet." n. 2, A. pubescens, 

 Lam. "111.," n. 1703; and glaberrima = A. vulgaris, y, glabra, DC., 

 " Fl. Fr." 



Judging by the description, his paniculata may be the same as 

 filicaulis? but of course specimens could alone decide this. 



So it would seem by the above that our two plants, as varieties, 

 should bear Pohl's name. 



A. eonjuneta, Bab. In the "Journ. Botany," iSSi, p. i, Mr. W. 

 Matthews speaks of this plant being ignored by every other botanist 

 except Nyman. But it would appear to have been known to 



1 Hartmann, "Hand. Sh. Fl." ed. ii. 91, 1879. 



2 G. Meyer, "Chi. Hannov." 298, 1836. 



3 Ascherson and Graebner, " Syn . Fl. Mitteleurop. Flora," give A. glaber- 

 rima, v. flexicanlis, Schirz. 



