132 Alfred J. Eivart : 



flowered form* to taller, more luxuriant and larger-leaved and 

 flowered forms, in the following sequence : — 



E. collina, K.Br., var. striata. (E. striata, R.Br. ; E. alpina, 

 var. humilis, Benth.). 



E. collina, R.Br., var. alpina.. (E. alpina, R.Br. ; E. die- 

 menica, Spreng.). 



(Type form) var. typica. (E. collina, R.Br. ; E. tetragona, 

 R.Br. ; E. multicaulis., Benth.). 



E. collina, R.Br., var. paludosa. 



,, ,, var. speciosa. (E. speciosa, R.Br.). 



Further, the size of the flowers tends to increase in cultivated 

 specimens, and the colour is highly variable. 



KocHiA viLLOSA, Liudl., 1848. (Salsolaceae). 



Among some stored specimens at the Herbarium, probably 

 derived from the Souder collection, one was found from A. de 

 Jussieu, dated 1832, E. Nova Hollandia, and named Rhogodia, 

 Billardierii, R.Br., which proves to be the above. Hence this Kochia 

 reached Eurojje long before it wa« described by Lindley, and the 

 present is possibly the oldest Herbarium specimen of the plant. 

 The label and specimen are pasted on the sheet, and hence there 

 is no possibility of accidental transference having occurred. 



Lyonsia stkamixea, R. Br. =L. stra.minea (R. Br.). Benth. 

 and Mueller. (Apocynaceae). 



In pursuing some interesting archa?olooical but hardly botanical, 

 studies, Britten^ concludes that the L. reticuhita of F. v. Mueller, 

 is the true L. straminea of R.Br., and proposes a new name 

 (L. Brownii) for the plant, supposed to be BruwTi's L. straminea 

 by Bentham and Mueller. A more confusing and unnecessary 

 addition to synonymy could hardly be proposed, and it is in- 

 teresting to note on p. 240, that Britten sharply criticises 

 Druce for a similar addition to synonymy based on no more 

 certain grounds. Britten admits that " Brov>'n published no de- 

 tailed description of the species," but cons.iders that de Can- 

 dolle's description of L. straminea referred, "ait any rate in 



1 Jourii. of Bot;uiy, vol. \1\ ., 1!)07, p. 235. 



