392 BOTANY OF THE AZORES. 
maritimum becomes evident. Having cultivated both species 
under similar conditions, I am disposed to receive them as 
sufficiently distinct. 
226. Persea Azorica (Seub.)—* It is a verisissime Laurel. 
very nearly allied to L. nobilis, and the second species of the 
genus, distinguished by very few technical differences from its 
congener, principally the greater number of stamens, the 
female flower, &c. Itis Laurus Canariensis, Webb. et Berth. 
Geogr. Bot. and Webb, Phytogr. Can. sect. 3, p. 227, t. 204, 
non Willd.”—P. B. Webb, Esq. in letter. Mr. Hunt 
thinks that there are two species under this name, T the 
Azores, and which are familiarly distinguished by the inha- - 
bitants. E 
230. Euphorbia Styxiana (Wats.)— Mr. Webb considers 
this only a large form of E. mellifera (Ait.) which attains an 
arborescent stature in the Canaries. Through the kindness 
of Mr. Hunt I am now in possession of several young living ~ 
plants of it; and so far as can at present be seen, they tend 
. rather to confirm than to oppose the suggestion of Mr. 3d 
Webb. I intended the name to commemorate the Styx — 
steam-vessel, not to be * Stygia." E 
238. Urtica Azorica (Hochst.)—Both Mr. Webb and Dr. — 
Alexander pronounce this to be the Urtica neglecta (Guss.) E 
Others have supposed it the U. membranacea (Poit.) — —— 
4 9242. Juniperus Ozycedrus (Linn. ?}—“ This plant gir 
to me identical with a species I collected near Cadiz, on ^. 4 
sea-coast beneath the village of Barossa, (vide It. Hisp- D 
— pP- 10, and which I considered as J. macrocarpa. bom 
. distinct from the Canarian J. Cedrus (Nob.) which become 
Une a fine tree, with pendulous branches, like those of pen 
. Cedar?— P. B. Webb, Esq. The Azoric Juniper also 0° 
comes a tree, with a short stem, from one to two feet M 
diameter, and often with the branchlets elegantly au 
lous. | : PURES 
. 252. Potamogeton natans (Linn.)— This, and perhaps © 
253 (* P. heterophyllus, Linn.?") also, may be realy 
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