78 PROCEEDINGS OF Xl[i: 



Cirsinm jntlustn', >Scop., var. fero.v, Druce. 



CaUuna vuhjaris, Hull, var. Erikcp, Asclierson. Shown to the 

 party on Wessenden Moors, Yorkshire, by Dr. Graebner. And 

 also found on Ben Lawers, at the Lizard, and near Clifdeu, 

 Gal way. 



Erica Tetralix X vafjans = E. cinerea X vagans. Davey, in 

 Journ. Bot, xlviii. (1910), p. 338, but identified by Druce, 

 Schroeter, and Graebner as the above hybrid when the plant was 

 shown to them by the discoverer, Mr. P. D. Williams, at Lanarth, 

 on the St. Keverne Moors. The glandular hairs and other 

 characters prove the presence of Tetralix. 



Jiincus ranarius, Perr. & Song. Southport, pointed out by 

 Dr. Graebner. 



III. 



Historic doubts about Vaxmthompsonia. 

 By the Eev. T. R. R. Stbbbing, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



[Read 7th March, 1912.] 



Dr. Calman has pointed out to me that my argument for the 

 priority of this form over its rival Vauntompsonia is open to a 

 serious objection. The latter spelling of Bate's generic name 

 appears in the second volume of the Royal Dublin Society's 

 Journal, published under date of 1860. But the volume includes 

 several numbers, and Number 10, with which we are here con- 

 cerned, is dated on p. G3 (its first page) " July, 1858." That the 

 number was actually published in that year, Dr. Caiman says, 

 *'is shown by the fact, which I owe to Mr. Sherborn, that the 

 part in question was received by the Library of the Geological 

 Society between July 1st and October 31st, 3 858, as recorded in 

 the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xv. p. 149, 1st Feb., 1859." This, 

 however, still leaves open the cfuestion whether the July number 

 of the Journal was published earlier or later than the July 

 quarterly number of the Natural History Review of the same year. 

 On this point neither the publishers of the Review nor the 

 present editor of the Journal have been able to supply information. 

 But the Library of the British Museum at Bloomsbury gives, as 

 it seems to me, a fairly satisfactory clue. The number of the 

 'Natui-al History Review' for July 1858 is there on the last page 

 of the lunuber, p. 263. stamped " 16 J Y 58." Now, Bate's paper 

 in the Journal is followed on p. 105 by " Return of Donations to 

 the Royal Dublin Society, to July, 1858," so that the material for 

 the number was not even complete till the beginning of July, and 

 its issue within a fortnight of that completion would surely in 

 those days have seemed needless to the editors and impossible 

 to the printers. Incidentally it may be observed that Kinahan 

 refers to Bate's paper as appearing in the second volume of the 

 Journal without giving any page number, as he would naturally 

 have done, had such a number been already available. We also Hnd 

 that Kinahan uses the spelling Vaunthompsonia in a Report to the 



