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to this in Rubi Eiiropm except as a synonym of " -B. vestikis," 

 with the note " Frutex B. vestiti unicus in vicinitate oppidi Weissen- 

 burg observatus sub hoc nomine descriptus est." Perhaps some 

 of the plants for which I have from time to time suggested this 

 name would be better placed, as varying forms or hybrids, under 

 li. hypolcuciis ; but most of them from widely separated counties 

 — Westmoreland to Dorset in the west, and Sussex, Kent and 

 Surrey in the east — agree closely with the greater part of 

 Genevier's description of B. hucanthemns Miill. !, as reported by 

 him from several districts in France. So there seems good ground 

 for the provisional retention of this name in our list, either in an 

 independent position between B. hyi)oleucus and B. leucostaclujs, 

 or as a variety (or possible hybrid) under one of them. 



B. claniciis Focke. Dr. Focke has found himself obliged to 

 alter this name, as he explains " nomen erroneum ; planta a 

 botanicis Danicis quidem lecta sed nondum in Dania ipsa reperta 

 est." He now calls it B. orhifolius (Lefvre, exs.) Boulay in Eouy 

 et Cam. Fl. Fr. vi. 22"; and keeps it, as before, near B. macro- 

 phyllus. He still regards our British plant as one with it : — 

 '• Sowie zerstreut in England and Wales." B. mollissimus Eogers, 

 which in our list appears (after " B. danicus ") as a variety under 

 B. hirtifolius, is placed as a synonym for " B. S2ihcanus P. J. 

 Muell. in Boulay, Konc. Vosg. p. 34, no. 27 (1866)," though the 

 only distribution mentioned, is " Zerstreut im Westlichen England, 

 in Wales und Irland," in exact agreement with that given for 

 Diollissivms in my Handbook, p. 49. 



B. egregins Focke, var phjmcnsis Focke. nov. var. This is an 

 addition to our Flora, the description added to the above name 

 being as follows : — " Eglandulosus vel glandulas brevissime stipi- 

 tatis in caule, inflorescentitl vel bracteis sparsas gerens. Caules 

 ssepe sat dense pilosi ; inflorescentia variabilis, nunc angusta 

 longa subracemosa, nunc vario modo composita. — Britannia." A 

 further reference to it later is " Die var. phjmcnsis in sildlichen 

 England, besonders aus dem Tale des Plym und an andern Stellen 

 bei Plymouth bekannt." Dr. Focke wrote to me about this plant 

 two years ago as follows : — " Once I gathered, with Mr. Briggs, a 

 late-tlowering, small Buhus in the Valley of the Plym. In general 

 aspect it was near B. longitJiyrsiger, being in fruit at the same 

 time ; but the stronger stems of the unnamed plant were of a 

 more upright growth. Lately I examined my specimens anew, 

 and I could find no essential difference from small forms of my 

 B. cgregms. Usually this latter species bears some scattered 

 glands, whereas the Devon plant is eglandular." Probably I 

 have not seen this "Devon plant" growing, and should have 

 failed to place it among our glandular Egregians if I had come 

 across it. Typical B. egregins, so far undetected in Britain, has 

 always proved a difficult species to me ; and though I have long 

 had a good series of specimens, I have so far found myself unable 

 to understand it. The account of '' phjmcnsis " is followed by the 

 following note : — " (Forma : effeminatus Focke, nov. nom. ; molli- 

 ter pilosus inflorescentite extra axillares longte, multiiJorte ; sepala 



