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Conspectus Florae FuropcecE. Auctore Cakolo Fkider Nymaj^. 

 IV. Monocotyledoneae. Orebro (SueciesB), 1882. 



Those botanists who take an interest in the distribution, &c., 

 of the Flora of Europe will welcome the concluding part of Dr. 

 Nyman's admirable ' Conspectus Flors EuropssB.' The three 

 parts published (see ' Journal of Botany,' 1878, p. 347 ; 1879, 

 p. 348 ; and 1882, p. 24) contain the whole of the Dicotyledons, 

 with the exception of the genera Taxus and Ephedra ; these begin 

 the present part. The whole of the Monocotyledons are now treated 

 in the same manner as the Dicotyledons, the four parts containing 

 eight hundred and fifty-six pages. 



The following remarks have reference principally to our own 

 Flora, and may be taken as rather suggestive than affirmative in 

 many cases: — To Damaso7iium stellatum may be added ''Malta" 

 (Herb. Kew) ; and " Island" "(Groenlund's Flora) under Zostera 

 marina. Potamogeton spathulatus should hardly be kept up as 

 species — at most it is only of subspecific rank, and even that 

 position may be challenged ere long. Under "P. salicifolius'' 

 " Hibernia " is an error. Dr. Nyman has doubtless followed 

 Babington's ' Manual ' (ed. 8) ; but the Irish plant is P. Lonchites, 

 Tuck., and they are very distinct species. " Angl. pr. Bath, sec. 

 Journ. of Bot., 1867," refers to decipiens, but this species may be 

 retained as English on faith of Eev. A. Ley's Herefordshire speci- 

 mens. It may be doubted whether the Swedish specimens of 

 ^'saUcifoliiis'' are Wolfgang's plant — certainly some are not. Under 

 P. lanceolatus, Sm., "detect. 1804" should be transferred to 

 Cambria. To P. Zizii " Angl. bor." may be added (Coniston 

 Lake, &c.). P. decipiens. — Surely " Slesvic " may be admitted 

 certainly from Holstein (Nolte !j. P. macrophyllus, Wolf., and 

 P. Zizii, M. & K., are held to be subspecies of lucens. P. longifolius, 

 Bab., is placed under decipiens; it seems certainly not to be 

 longifolius, Gray. P. obtusifoliiis, M. & K. — " Gall centr.? " may have 

 the mark of doubt removed ; I have seen a specimen fi'om near 

 Paris. P. Friesii, Eup., is retained instead of P. mucronatus, 

 Schrad., which is given afterwards with a mark of doubt. P. 

 Jiabellatus, Bab., is placed under pectinatus, and given for 

 "Hib., Angl., &c." Under Zannichellia, macrosteynon, Gay, is 

 simply a synonym oi palustris ; while brachystemon, Gay, is placed 

 \mdiex pediceUata (Whlnb.), Fr. ; usually both are held to be forms 

 or subspecies oi palustris. 



CephaJanthera pallens, Eeich. (1818), takes precedence of C. 

 grandifiora, Bab., which stands as C. grayuliflora, S. F. Gray 

 (1821). The genus Epipactis is split up not quite in the usual 

 way. F. violacea, Bor., is simply a synonym of F. latifolia ; 

 this seems misplaced; its growth is very di£ferent from that of 

 latifolia, and the plant would seem to come better under 

 atrorubens, as understood by Dr. Nyman. F. ovalis, Bab., is 



