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Fries, I 8 1 8. If the rule I have suggested be acted upon, 

 Corion, as published before 1753, will be inadmissible. 



In Allione's " Flora Pedemont." the two forms of Montia 

 fontana are described as var. minor and major. The varietal 

 names will be also found in Roth's "Tent. Germ.," 1788. 



The name H. quadratum, Stokes, is substituted for that 

 of H. tetrapterum, Fries ; but an earlier name than either is 

 that of//, acutum, Monch., " Meth." (1794), p. 128. 



Acer campestre. Mr. Brown has overlooked the note on 

 this plant in " Journ. Bot," Dec. 1891, where I pointed out 

 that the type of the Linnsean Herbarium was the pubescent 

 form named hebecarpa in the " London Catalogue," and that 

 I had seen the glabrous form from Oxford and Berks. 



The prostrate form of Sarothamnus scoparius is given as 

 a variety. But so many of our plants when growing by the 

 sea assume this habit that it makes one doubt if it be worth 

 characterising by a varietal name. 



If it be considered worthy of such a name, then we 

 must so name Prunus spinosa, L., var. prostrata, which may 

 be seen on the shingle near Port William in Wigtownshire. 

 Of this I noticed a specimen in the British Museum Herbar- 

 ium, labelled as Salix, nov. sp. (!), from the south-west of 

 Ireland. 



Curiously enough, all notice relating to Trifolium agra- 

 rinm, L., and to Lupinus perennis is omitted. To Scotch 

 botanists this will be a surprise, since both are met with in 

 the north-east counties [abundantly in many places. — Ed.] 



Alchemilla vulgaris ; L. Under this we have no notice of 

 the occurrence of the glabrous form in Britain. I have found 

 it in Glen Spean and elsewhere. It is the var. glabra, Wimm. 

 et Grab. "Fl. Sil.," i. p. 135. The Linnsean type is pubescent. 

 It remains to be seen if we have the var. hybrida, L. in 

 Britain. 



With reference to the synonymy of Potentilla verna and 

 rubens it may be said that Zimmeter takes a very different 

 view. He contends that the plant in the Linnaean Her- 

 barium, labelled P. ver?ia, is the plant we have been call- 

 ing P. maculata, Pourr. 1 In the first edit, of " Sp. PI." P. 



1 Prof. Aschenberg identifies the plant of the Linn. Herb, as P. verna ; it has 

 the number referring to that species. It is what we have been erroneously calling 

 P. maculata. 



