EARLY ICELANDIC BOTANY. 279- 



Epilobium corymbumm, Rottb p. 440, f. 23, according to Guuuer 

 does not differ from E. latifulium, L. 



Saxif rag a punctata, L., Rottb. Babington says that it is difficult to 

 tell what can have been meant by this name. RottboU's description 

 (p. 445) and figure (f. 10) seem, without dou.bt, to have been made 

 from S. cunei folia, L. ; yet it is certainly difficult to believe that this 

 species can have occurred in Iceland. RottboU states that Paduan 

 specimens, sent to him from Arduin under the name given in Mori- 

 son's ' Historia,' quoted by Linnseus as a synonym of his S. punctata, 

 diftered from Morison's figure (which is indeed a good figure of the 

 S. punctata of the Linn. Herb.) in several particulars ; and that he 

 compared the plant from Iceland with these Italian specimens, and 

 found that the two " were as like as two drops of water to one an- 

 other." Gunner (p. 140), however, says that RottboU's specimen at 

 Copenhagen comes nearer to S. nivalis than to any other species. The 

 figure, however, cannot represent this, and it is not evident where the 

 error, if there be one, can exist. 



Saxifraga hidbifera, L. Gunner says this was found in Iceland by 

 Konig. Gunner seems to have known the true S. bidhifera, and says 

 it can be distinguished from 8. cernua by its inferior ovary. He does 

 not quote for it Fl. Dan. 390, which was drawn from Iceland speci- 

 mens, but represents the large-branched form of S. cernua, of which 

 there is a specimen in Herb. Banks, collected in Iceland by Banks and 

 Solander. 



Gentiana involucrata, G. detonsa, and G. tenella. All these are 

 RottboU's species (not Fries's, as given by Babington), founded on 

 Icelandic plants, and are described for the first time in his paper, pp. 

 434-6. They are figured in f. 2, 3, and 6, but had been previously 

 published in Fl. Dan. t. 344, 317, and 318; G. involucrata as " G. 

 quiuqnefolia, L.," and the other two without names. With regard to 

 G. detonsa, Rottb., it is probably right to regard it, as Hartman does, 

 as merely a variety, with a 4-fid corolla, of a plant whicli has usually 

 5 corolla-lobes. The figure in Fl. Dan. 317, has the latter number, 

 and is called by Gunner (p. 101) G. serruta, which name is retained 

 by Hartman. 



Veronica Anagallis, L. This is excluded by Professor Babington ; 

 there are, however, specimens in the British Museum, collected by 

 Banks and Solander, labelled " Islandia in thermis." 



