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thyrsiflora is Linnaeus, not Aiton ; Linaria purpurea is Miller, 

 not Linnaeus, who called it an Antirrhinum; Eqnisetum 

 liinosum should be Linnaeus, not Smith ; Narcissus major 

 should be Curtis, not Linnaeus ; Brassica Erucastrum is 

 Linnaeus, not Villars (there is considerable doubt as to 

 the identity of this with Erucastrum Pollichii) ; Mentha 

 arvensis, var. parietaricefolia is Steudel, not Beck ; Prunus 

 institia, Haas, should be Linn. ; Eleocharis uniglumis is 

 Schult., not Reichenbach, according to the " Kew Index " ; 

 Poa annua, var. supina, Gaud., should be var. siipina (Schrad.), 

 or var. varia, Gaud. ; Silene Cucubalus, var. puberula, Syme, 

 should be Hooker fil. ; Sagina apetala is Arduini, not Lin- 

 naeus ; Pimpinella major, var. dissecta, N. E. Brown, is ante- 

 dated by my " Flora of Oxfordshire " ; Cynoglossum officinale, 

 var. subglabrum> Syme, should be Bromfield, see " Phytologist," 

 p. 571 (1849); Iris f<tidissima t var. citrina, Syme, should 

 be Bromfield, see " Flora Vectensis." Syme was very negli- 

 gent in citing authorities for varietal names. Carex divulsa, 

 Good., would rather appear to be Stokes, see the second 

 edition of Withering's " Arrangement." Hall., and Hall, f., 

 are confusing abbreviations, especially when, as in some cases, 

 a comma is used instead of a full stop. Haller might as 

 well be written in full. Alchemilla conjuncta, Bab., is now 

 entered as A. argentea, Lamarck ; but Daydon Jackson 

 stated in "Journ. Bot," 1887, p. 231, that Lamarck's plant 

 is only A. alpina. In that case A. argentea, Don, would 

 appear to be the available name. 



The older names for our Elms are U. campestris, Miller's 

 " Gard. Diet.," which is applied to our Wych Elm ; U. cam- 

 pestris of the " Sp. Plant." is also considered by many Con- 

 tinental botanists to refer to the same plant, and not to our 

 second species, which Miller called in the same work U. 

 sativa. The latter name also has precedence over U. sur- 

 culosa, Stokes. Our plants will therefore stand as U. cam- 

 pestris, Miller, with var. major (Sm.) and var. nitida (Syme) ; 

 and Ulmus sativa, Miller, with var. suberosa (Ehrh.) and var. 

 glabra (Miller). Anagallis fcemina, Miller, is older than 

 Anagallis ccerulea, Schreb. ; and Valeriana sambucifolia is 

 antedated by V. excelsa, Poir. In the " Index Kewensis," 

 and in the " Supplement to English Botany," the name 



