No. 443] AfLTTAT/ON IN /'LINTS. 753 



Barbier inherited by the Museum in 1847. It is filed in a cover 

 with 6E". biennis L., and bears that name on the sheet, a small 

 label inscribed with a series of prelinnean names, and another 

 with ' Onnj^ra vn/j^aris Spach ' and ^ Ginothcra biennis Linne,' 

 both apparently in Spach's handwriting. This is the plant 

 referred to by de Vries as having been collected presumably by 

 Abbe Pourret in the Paris Garden during his visit in 1788. 

 The specimen represents an unbranchcd upper portion of a 

 shoot with numerous large well-developed leaves, partly mature 

 capsules and several flowers that are somewhat smaller than 

 those of the previously mentioned specimen. These two speci- 

 mens differ in no important particular. Tracings of them com- 

 pared with living i)lants grown in the New York Botanical 

 Garden from seeds sent by de Vries agree quite perfectly. 



"A search through the herbarium of the Museum d'Histoire 

 Naturelle and that of the New York Botanical Garden does not 

 bring to light any specimen of a wild North American plant that 

 can be referred to Gi. laviarckiana as it is now known and cul- 

 tivated in Europe, nor does it seem to be known to collectors in 

 North America at the present day. 



" Several specimens were found however, which might be con- 

 jectured as representing a North American plant from which 

 Gi. lamarekiana might have been derived. One of them is a 

 plant collected by Michaux now preserved in the Museum at 

 Paris, and cited by de Vries in the Mutationsteorie (Bd. i : p. 

 316) and referred by him to a plant frequently cultivated in 

 Europe under the name of GLnotJiera grandijiora Ait Gi. suave- 

 olens Desf. but which he considers different from GL. lamarek- 

 iana. A tracing was also made of this plant which consists of 

 two specimens fastened on the same sheet upon which numerous 

 inscriptions bear witness to much diversity of opinion as to its 

 real identity. A small slip of paper bears in Michaux's hand- 

 writing ' Ginothera grandijiora,' another (the customary label 

 of the Michauxian specimens) the inscription ^Gi,notJiera grandi- 

 jiora Poiret Encycl.,' in the writing of that author of the 

 section dealing with Ginothera in Lamarck's Encyclopedia ; 

 beneath that ' GinotJiera siiaveolens Hort. par.' in the writing 

 of Desfontaines, and lastly ' Onagra vulgaris grandijiora Spach.' 



