292 DISTRIBUTION OF SALVIA PRATENSIS IN OXFORDSHIRE. 



Nephrodium sophoroides, Desv. 

 Lygodium japonicum, Sw. 

 Osmunda regalis, L. 

 III. Island of Poo-tan-san, Chusan Archipelago. 

 Davallia tenuifolia, Sw. 

 Onychium japonicum, Kunze. 

 Aspidium lepidocaulon, IIooTc. 

 Polypodium norm ale, Don. 



,, pteropus, Blume. 

 Selaginella caulescens, Spring, 



ON A NEW TIJLIPA PROM! CHINA, WITH THE HABIT OF 



AN ERTTHRONirM. 



By J. G. Baker. 



Along with the collection' of ferns just enumerated, Mr. Quekett 

 sends from the' Snowy Yalley, in the proyince of Chekiang, a spring- 

 flowering bulb, gathered in March, 1873, which proves to be a very 

 distinct new species of Tulipa., of the section Orithyia, of which we 

 have thus got two new species lately added from China (the other 

 discovered by Dr. Shearer, and described at page 230) to the three 

 previously known. 



TuLiPA (Orithtia) ertthronioides, Baker. — Bulbus globosus, 

 magnitudine nucis avellanae. tunicis membranaceis brunneis vestitus. 

 Caulis infra folia 1-3 poUicaris. Folia more lirythronWi, e basi scapi 

 prope terram ascendentia, opposita, oblanceolata, 3-4 poll, longa, 

 medio 6-9 lin. lata,' acuta, ad basin amplectentem angustata, membra- 

 nacea, glabra. Pedunculus glaber erectus gracilis uniflorus 2-3 poUi- 

 caris, prope florem bracteis tribus linearibus verticillatis 9-12 lin. 

 longus preditus. Perianthium 6-12 lin. Ion gum, segmentis albidis 

 lanceolatis obtusis medio 2-3 lin. latis, venis verticalibus multis pur- 

 pureis. Genitalia perianthio duplo breviora. Antherae luteae oblongae 

 2 lin. longai, filamentis glabris linearibus cuspidatus. Ovarium oblongo- 

 ampullseforme, in stylum 2 lin. longum attenuatum. 



Perianth, stamens, and pistil very like those of the Japanese T. 

 eduh's, Baker, but habit totally different ; the two Erythronium-like 

 leaves opposite and arising from the base of the scape near the soil, 

 and the Fritillary-like whorl of bracts marking it from every other 

 known species. 



THE DISTRIBUTION OF SALVIA PRATENSIS, Linn., IN 

 OXFORDSHIRE. 



By Alfred FRENcn. 



This rare and beautiful British plant is, according to Watson's 

 " Topograpliical Botany," found truly wild only in West Kent and in 

 xfordshire, but it has occurred as a casual in Surrey, West Suffolk, 

 and the Isle of Wight. It has likewise been recorded from a number 

 of other counties, probably from S. Verbenaca being mistaken for it. 



