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15. E. cALYciNA. — Both De Candolle and Harvey omit this, but 

 they both mention RelJiania cah/cma Poir. (Poiret (Lam. Encycl. vi. 

 p. 95) cites the plant as R. cah/cina L'Herit.), which they refer, and 

 quite wrongly, to Pei/rousea cahjcina DO. li. cah/cina Poir. finds no 

 place in the Index Kewensis, whereas R. cah/cina L'Herit. does, as a 

 synonym of Pti/roufiea cahjcina DC. L'Herit. gives Osuiites calycina 

 Linn. fil. Supp. 380 as a synonym of his R. cahjcina, and examina- 

 tion of the original types of the two show them to be identical. 

 De Candolle and Harvey are thus quite wrong in their citation of 

 Osuiites cah/cina Linn. f. under Pei/roasea cahjcina DC. 



The Os}nite>< cahjcina of Linnaeus' herbarium is the plant sub- 

 sequently described by Thunberg (Prod. Plant. Cap. p. 146) as 

 Relhanla trinervis, a name which therefore falls to the ground. 



16. R. Bellidiastrum. — L'Heritier gives as a synonym of this 

 the Osmifes BeUidiastniui of Linnaeus (Sp. PI. 1285). Of this latter 

 De Candolle {I.e. -p. 291) says: — " 0. Bellidiastrum Linn. . . . 

 videtur ex Less. Syn. 381: species Pielhani^ adhuc dubia, que Rel- 

 hania Bellidiastrum Poir.," giving Poiret credit for the species 

 instead of L'Heritier. Harvey leaves the name unnoticed. The 

 founder of the species has an unfortunate note upon the plant 

 which served as its type, as he writes: — "Pappus nullus : a genere 

 sat aliena," which might well have puzzled anyone not enjoying 

 access to the plant. But this is an error of observation; L'Heritier 

 probably opened a young capitulum, and in this state I find it by 

 no means an easy matter to make out the pappus with thorough 

 satisfaction until after very careful examination, as it is pressed 

 very closely against the tube of the young corolla, and some care 

 is necessary in separating it. 



This plant seems to me only a long-leaved variety of R. indeacea 

 L'Herit., although I have not met with any similar specimens 

 either at the British Museum or at Kew. It may be characterized 

 as follows : — 



R. paleacea L'Herit. var. Bellidiasteum S. Moore. Folia 

 elongata, mox patentia demum recurva, supra densissime albo- 

 tomentosa, 1*5 cm. long. 



It may be added that the specimen of Osmites Bellidiastrum in 

 the Linnean herbarium is the same as L'Heritier's R. Bellidiastrum. 

 Its localisation (Ethiopia) in Sp. PI. is a palpable mistake. 



SOME PLANTS OF SOUTH-WEST SCOTLAND. 

 By the Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. 



During a fortnight's visit to Rothesay, in the second half of 

 August, 1901, I made a few desultory botanical expeditions, which 

 produced some discoveries of interest. My friend Mr. Alexander 

 Somerville kindly drove me out to Quien Loch and Scalpsie Bay, at 

 the south end of Bute; and I had a morning's walk along the 

 shores of Loch Fad with Mr. Ballantyne, a botanist of the town. 



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