428 A EE\^SED LIST OF THE BRITISH CARY0PHYLLACEJ3. 



WiWc. (£• Lanqe, Prodr. iii. p. 161 ; En<il. S PrantJ, Natiirl. Pfl. iii. 

 abt. 1 b, p. 85 ; Pari VI. Ital. ix. p. 610. 



62 [259] . S. ARVENsis Linn. Sp. Plant, (ed. 1) p. 440 (1753). 



XIX. SPERGULARIA.— Per.s. Syn. Plant, i. p. 504 ; Jhnth. d 

 Hook. Gen. Plant, i. p. 152 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. p. 732 ; Willk. d- 

 Lange, Prodr. iii. p. 162; Pari. Fl. Ital. ix. p. 615; Bohinson, in 

 Proc. Amer. Acad. xxix. p. 309 (1894). 



Species Monotocce. 

 *68 [260] . S. RUBRA Pers. 1. c. p. 504 (1805). 

 *64 [261] . S. sALiNA Presl, Fl. Cecbica, p. 95 (1819). 



Species Polytoca;. 

 *65 [262] . S. MEDIA Pers. 1. c. p. 504 (1805). 

 -'■66 [263] . S. KUPicoLA Jjebel, in Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cberb. vii. 

 p. 274 (1860). 



XX. POLYCARPON.— 7.of/7. Resa Spansk. Liind. p. 7 ; Benth. 

 d Hook. Gen. Plant, i. p. 152 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. p. 735 ; Willk. 

 d Lauf/e, Prodr. iii. p. 162 ; Engl, d Prantl, Natiirl. PH. iii. abt. 1 b, 

 p. 86 ; Pari. FL Ital. ix. p. 623. 



67 [264] . P. TETRAPHYLLUM Linn. Sp. Plant, (ed. 2) p. 131 

 (1762). 



Notes and Remarks on the Foregoing List. 



7. Silene inflata. — Tbe reasons for keeping up this old name are 

 given in cxtenso elsewhere. Prof. Ascherson points out that if the 

 oldest specific name is to be retained, the name of the common 

 bladder campion should be Silene venosa, i.e., Cuaihalus renosus 

 Gilib. [1782] ; but I find that a still earlier name is Cucuhalus 

 antjustifolius Mill., Gard. Diet. ed. viii. (1768). 



9. S. (jallica. — This is much more widely distributed than the 

 plant known as S. am/lica, and is the one selected by Rohrbach as 

 the type of the species. 



13. S. italica. — I have received living specimens of this plant 

 from Hythe, in Kent ; and it seems to occur in other localities in 

 sufficient quantity to be considered as a British plant. It was long 

 ago recorded by Peete under the name of S. patens. 



19. Coronaria Flos-cuculi.— The genus Coronaria was much 

 more clearly defined than Lychnis, and it is to be regretted that 

 Linnteus did not keep it up in Species Plantarum. It has, however, 

 been revived by Alexander Brauu, and taken up by Garcke in the 

 successive editions of his Flora von Beutscldand. 



21. ]\[oenchia qxiaternella. — The genus was founded by Ehrhart 

 on the Linnean Sagina erecta. As this name was given to it to dis- 

 tinguish it from S. decwnhens, and as, moreover, Ehrhart was quite 

 justified in choosing a suitable specific name, there is no occasion 

 to displace it by Smith's much later name of M. erecta. 



23. Cerastium pumihim. — Mr. Arthur Bennett is disposed to 

 regard this plant as an endemic species. Though Belgian speci- 



