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of the second he could not have so intended, for A. Per sonata L. 

 ( = Carduus Per sonata Jacq.) is described by Linnaeus as " foliis 

 decurrentibus ciliato-spinosis ; radicalibus pinnatis : caulinis 

 oblongo-ovatis." This latter description is given by Martyn 

 in his edition of the Dictionary (1807) under A. Personata. 

 Moreover, Miller says of his A. Personata : " The second is titled 

 by Vaillant, Lappa vulgaris capitulo minorc. Act. Par. 1718. 

 Common Burdock with a small head " — this could not apply to 

 .1. Personata L. 



It would seem from what has been said that Miller's name 

 should l)e restored for one of the plants known collectively as 

 A. minus. It is not a " still-born," for the reduction of A. 

 Personata L. to Carduus having been universally accepted, the 

 name is left free. The matter will no doubt be duly considered by 

 Mr. A. H. Evans in the notes on the genus which he is preparing 

 for this Journal in connection with the monograph he has under- 

 taken for The Cambridge Flora. 



NOTES ON STATICS* 



By C. E. Salmon, F.L.S. 



X. — The Nomenclature of British Sea-Lavenders. 



The following revision of the nomenclature of our British 

 Sea-Lavenders has been rendered necessary by the International 

 Rules of Botanical Nomenclature, according to which (Art. 45) 

 the original name of a genus which is divided into two or more 

 genera must be applied to that part of it which contains the 

 larger number of species. When I adopted the name Limonium, 

 following the practice then largely accepted (see Journ. Bot. 1901, 

 193), this Rule had not been promulgated, but it seems desirable 

 to conform to it, and the following list is drawn up in accordance 

 therewith : — 



1. Statice Limonium L. Sp. PL 274 (1753), excluding vars. non 

 Herb.; Hudson, Fl. Angl. 114 (1762), excl. vars. ; Smith, 

 Eng. Bot. ii. 102 (1793) ; Fl. Brit. i. 341 (1800), excl. vars. ; 

 Babington, Man. 244 (1843) ; Reisland und Brand in Koch. 

 Syn. ed. 3, iii. 2187 (1903), excl. vars. 



Limonium vulgare Miller, Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 1 (1768). 



Statice maritima Lamarck, Fl. Fr. iii. 64 (1778), excl. var., 

 non Miller. 



Limonium commune Gray, Arr. Brit. PI. ii. 296 (1821), excl. vars. 



Statice j^eudo-Limonium Reichenb. Fl. Germ, excurs. 191 

 (1831). 



•V Behen Drejer, Fl. Hafn. 122 (1838). 



8. scanica Fries, Mant. ii. 17 (1839). 



* See Journ. Bot. 1903, 65 ; 1904, 361 ; 1905, 5, 54 ; 1907, 24, 428 ; 1908, 

 1; 1'KV.i. 286; lull, 73. 



