~ Polypħhyjllum (A. Braun !)” I trust Mr. Hunt will 
~ larger O. Lusitanicum or vulgatum, by intermediate forms 
394 BOTANY OF THE AZORES. - 
Hist. 1831), which is the Lastrea recurva (Newm.) of the 
present day, among English botanists. The identity having 
been pointed out to Mr. Newman, he announced the fact 
in the Phytologist for May, 1846. Mr. Webb independently 
arrived at the same conclusion about the same time, and 
mentioned it to me by letter, dated June. 3, 1846." The 
oblong variety (* productum" Lowe) may be a distinct species, 
as is believed by Mr. Newman; but it appears nearer to 
Lastrea recurva, than to the Lastrea multiflora (Newm.), 
which is the L. dilatata of other English authors. It will be 
seen from the * Supplementary List, that this latter species 
has also been found in the Azores by Mr. Hunt. If-that 
zealous botanist would collect a number of these Lastreas, 1t 
is far from improbable that we should make out morë than 
these two speciés in the Azores. Td 
345. Ophioglossum vulgatum (Linn.)—M y specimens, col- 
lected in Flores, differed so very little from some English 
examples of O. vulgatum, that I referred them to this species; 
although they may be O. Lusitanicum equally. But I some- 
what hastily assumed, that the Ophioglossum of the Flora - 
Azorica must be the same species with that from Ter 
Having since received from Mr. Hunt a few St. Michacl's 
specimens of a diminutive Ophioglossum, producing sever 
narrowly lanceolate fronds from the same rhizoma, I cannot 
. doubt that this is identical with the Ophioglossum “from 
Terceira, described in Flora Azorica, under name of.“ 0: 
LE 
.. whether this small species or variety can be traced up to the 
Whether it is always. diminutive in St. Michael's, and 
larly produces several leaves, barren and fertile, from à 
3. Species enumerited in the Flora Anna et j x 
= * Nigella arvensis ee 
" v Chelidonium majus, L. 
