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what Dr. Nyman calls the "forma typica (Smithiana)" occurs 

 nowhere in the whole world, so far as is Imow^n, except near 

 Liveipool ; and yet E. tenuifiora here appears not even as a variety, 

 but merely as a synonym of E. latifolia, with "Hibern. Lusit." and 

 other countries following "Angl. (r)," as descriptive of the distri- 

 bution of the combined species. The true Pulmonaria anr/iistif alia, Jj., 

 is not held to be British, our Hants and Isle of Wight plant coming 

 in apparently under P. vulgaris, Mer. Myosotis repens, Don, takes 

 rank only as a variety of M. palustris, Rth., there being no further 

 account of its distribution than "Brit. Scand. (et probabiliter etiam 

 alibi)." Our Scroijhularia Ehrharti, Stev., again becomes lost in 

 the old aggregate 8. aquatica, L., with no account given of 

 its distribution. The pretty little fleshy-leaved yellow-flowered 

 toadflax, so well established as a ballast plant near Plymouth 

 and at one or two other spots on our coast, is held not to be 

 Linaria supina,J)esi.,hMi L. mantima, DC; and L. repens, Mill., 

 gives place to L. striata, DC. The genus Lmaria has 93 European 

 species and 19. varieties, and it is suggested that the L. italica of 

 English wTiters and "L. sepium, Allman (Hibern.)," are probably 

 hybrids from L. vulgaris and L. striata. Veronica lujhrida, L., is 

 absorbed in V. spicata, L. ; V. Buxhaumii, Ten., becomes V.persica, 

 Poir. ; and Bartsia viscosa, L., takes the, to us unfamiliar, name of 

 Trixago viscosa, Stev. Instead of our Bartsia Odontites, Huds., with 

 varieties, are given two species, Odontites serotina, Rchb. (all 

 Europe, excej)t N. Scandinavia and N. Russia), and 0. verna, 

 (P.) Rchb., — each with a continental variety. In Euphrasia we are 

 credited only with E. officinalis, (L.) Schk. ; while E. gracilis, Fr., 

 is given as another species, with 3 varieties, including E. ericetorum, 

 Jord., and E. tetraq^cetra, Arrond. There is considerable shifting of 

 names in our Orobanches : 0. cmrulea, VilL, becoming Phelipaa 

 ccBrulea, C. A. Mey. ; 0. elatior, Sutt., giving place to 0. major. L. 

 Suec. ; 0. major, L., Sm., to 0. Piapum, Th. ; and 0. rubra, Sm., 

 to 0. Epithymum, DC. ; while 0. amethystea, Th., takes rank as a 

 species. This genus is credited with 70 European species and 22 

 varieties. Our one species of Ballota, with its variety, becomes 

 two species; our common form under the name B. alba, L., 

 and our variety ruderalis as B. nigra, L. Thymus CliamcBdrys, Fr., 

 appears as a species, with 3 varieties; q>b.^T. 8erpyllum,{Ij.)'FY., 

 with 4. In Mentha we are credited with 9 out of 13 species ; 

 M. alopecuroides, Hull, appearing as a variety of M. rotundifolia, 

 L., while M. p)iperita, Huds., is considered to be only a garden 

 escape in Europe, and its native country unknown. M. aquatica, 

 L., and M. hirsuta, L., are numbered as separate species, 

 although it is added that they scarcely seem distinct. M. rubra, 

 Huds., is placed as a variety of M. gentilis, L., and the only 

 one; M. rubra, Sm., being given as a synonym of M. sativa, L. 

 In Rumex, R. syhestris, Wallr., ranks as a species; B. nemorosus, 

 Schrad., is displaced by fi. sanguineus, L. ; and Britain is given, 

 instead of England, for both B. palustris, Sm., and R. maritimus, L. 

 Polygonum maculatum. Dyer & Trimen, appears as a variety of 

 P. lapathij'olium, L., under the name P. nodosum., P.; P. mari- 



