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verna is, he says, " eine collectiv Species. In Europae 

 pascuis siccis frigidioribus." The light thrown on it by the 

 Linnaean Herbarium, by the " Flora Suecica," and by the second 

 edit, of the " Sp. PL," shows that P. verna is the name to be 

 applied to P. metadata, Pourr., as Ruprecht long since pointed 

 out. Our P. verna is, according to Zim meter, P. opaca, L. 

 ("Sp. PL," ed. ii., 713, 1762), = P. verna, auct. plur., = P. 

 minor, Gilib. The P. opaca, which was one of the plants 

 recorded from Scotland, therefore becomes dispossessed in 

 turn of its name, which Zimmeter says should be P. rubens, 

 Crantz, " Stirp. Aust.," fasc. ii., p. 75, 1769, non. Vill. 



Hartmann also, in his account of the Scandinavian species 

 in the Linnaean Herbarium (" Acts of the Stockholm Acad.," 

 1849-5 1 ), unhesitatingly pronounces two of the specimens 

 with the number of P. verna to be the plant named by 

 various authors P. sabauda, P. salisburgensis, P. alpestris, 

 et. P. maculata ; but of the third specimen, which has the 

 name written under it, he says, " De cetero cum P. verna 

 sensu recentiorum convenit, pars vero caulis infima minus et 

 patenter pilosa est, quasi immaculata." Prof. Ascherson 

 considers the specimen also to be the PotentUla which is Jiere 

 termed P. ver?ia. 



The small pretty form of PotentUla Anserina, which is 

 just as much a variety as P. reptans, var. niicropliyda, is un- 

 noticed ; as is also the densely pubescent form of Potentdla 

 palustris, which appears to be quite worthy a varietal name ; 

 especially when we see such given to the shades of colour 

 of Oxalis and Anemone, and the varieties of Rubus Idccus, 

 etc. 



The only plate given in the second part is one of an 

 introduced plant, Potentdla norvegica. The mass of the text 

 in this part is made up of a compilation of the so-called 

 species of Rubus and the varieties, etc., of the genus Rosa, re- 

 garding which we may say that the distribution given of the 

 various forms mentioned is by no means exhaustive. 



Among the omissions from these two parts may be 

 mentioned the Poppy gathered by Mr. Nicholson, which 

 appears to be intermediate between P. R/uvas and P. 

 dubium. The fact of our Helleborus viridis, L. being indi- 

 genous in the chalk woods of Bucks and Oxford might have 



