282 SHORT NOTES. 



foliorum versus aincem ramorum dispositis ; bracteis loarvis, 

 lanceolatis, cseruleis, subpersistentibiis : floiibus breviter 

 IDedicellatis, caeruleis ; sepalis exterioribus lanceolatis, suj)e- 

 riore imrum majore ; alis multoties majoribus, obovatis, 

 pulclire venosis ; petalis lateralibiis fere liberis, oblique 

 spatliulatis, carinam multo excedentibus, quasi galeam 

 includeiitem praebentibus : carina parva, inclusa, apiculata, 

 omnino ecristata, atro-pur^^urea : antheris subsessilibus, 

 poris duobus deliiscentibus : ovario x")arvo, elliptico ; stylo 

 clongato, apice infundibuliformi, autice lobum stigmaticum 

 gerente ; capsula glabra, obcordata, late alata : seminibus 

 nigris, hirtellis : arillodio galeato, breviter api^endiculato. 



Syn. P.juniperina, Cav. in Ann. Cienc. Nat., vol. iv., 1801, p. 



53 (teste DC.) BracJn/trojns micropjn/lla, Willk. et Lge., 



Fl. Hisp., iii., 552. 



Figs. Hofl'm. et Link., Fl. Port., t. 56 : Brot., Pliyt. Lus., t. 175. 



In Hispania occidentali et i^er totam Lusitaniam, sed, ut 



videtur, rara. 

 A very remarkable and altogether monotj^pic species, of very 

 restricted distribution. 



Addenda (see p. 244). 



1. P. VULGARIS. F.VaiUantii, Bess. (Caucasus), ?indi F. pyxcrphylla, 

 Ave Lall. in Eeicli. Fl. Germ., 350 (Alps), are only slight 

 varieties of this species. P. ruhjaris, var. apiculata, Joad 

 MS. (Calabria), alis ellipticis, apiculatis, is an interesting 

 and distinct variety. The following additional references 

 should be given : — P. nih/aris, "Willk. etLge., Fl. Hisp., iii., 

 556. Yar. 2. depressa, ibid., iii., 555. Var. 3. ciliata, ibid., 

 iii., 556. 



At page 243, line 7, for " longiores" read "breviores." 



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Erodium moschatum (see p. 261). — The first publication of this 

 name is in Alton's ' Hortus Kewensis,' ed. 1, 1789, where (vol. ii. 

 p. 414) it appears thus: — ''Erodunn moschatiwi, L'Herit., n. 13." 

 Many subsequent systematic "S'STiters, having been unable to trace the 

 name to any published book of L'Heriticr's, have been led to refer 

 the species to Alton himself, and it appears as " i?. moscliatum, 

 Alton," m several Floras. The reference of the ' Hort. Kewensis ' 

 is, however, to L'Heriticr's ' Geraniologia Brevior,' as it is termed 

 in Dryander's Catalogue of the Banksian Library (vol. iii. p. 301). 

 That collection, so rich in rare and unique treatises, contains a 

 copy of the first sheet (pp. 16, 8vo) of this book, which gives 

 descriptions, synonymy, and localities of twenty-six species of 



