ENUMERATION OE THE PLANTS. 



PHANEROGAMS.— DICOTYLEDONES. 



RANUNCULACE^E. 



Ranunculus parviflorus, Linn., (3 acutilobus. 



Ranunculus parviflorus, Linn., Sp. PI., ed. 2, p. 780 ; /3 acutilobus, DC, Prodr., i. p. 42, fide R. T. Low 

 in Herb. Kew. 



St Helena.— Introduced ? Wet places — Burchell ; upland parts — Hooker ; without 

 1 ocality — Ha ugh ton. 



This widely dispersed plant is probably not truly indigenous, though it may have 

 reached the island independently of the agency of man. Melliss does not include it in his 

 enumeration ; but he states that Ranunculus sccleratus is common. Roxburgh mentions 

 Ranunculus bulbosus, which Melliss says is "grown in gardens only as a great rarity." 



CRUCIFEE^E. 

 Senebiera heleniana, DC 



Sembiera heleniana, DC., Syst. Veg., ii. p. 523; Prodr., i. p. 202; Burchell, Ic. ined. t. 177. 



St Helena. — Indigenous? In the sand near the lime quarry, Sandy Bay — Burchell, 

 124. 



Allied to the common Senebiera didyma, and possibly only a modification of that 

 species, which Melliss records as a troublesome weed. Burchell's specimens, however, the 

 only ones we have seen, are almost woody, with the cauline leaves usually narrowly three- 

 lobed, and have dark red or violet flowers, as represented in his coloured drawing ; not 

 white, as described by De Candolle. Melliss has not taken up the name. 



["Brassica heleniana, Burch.," in DC. Prodr., i. p. 215, is certainly Raphanus 

 raphanistrvm. It is singular that the name should be ascribed to Burchell, because both 

 in his MSS. enumeration of the plants of St Helena and on the label accompanying the 

 specimeus numbered 128, he has named the plant Raphanus sp.] 



