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Prodromus and clianged its name ; because that of Iceve has long 

 been preoccupied by a tall erect woody species with rubicund Howers, 

 in the Hort. Kew. and inserted in this arrangement [p. G-i] in the 

 section Ruhicundce Teretiusmila.^' Whatever may ultimately be 

 decided as to JSL. Iccve, it is clear that Sonder and Berger haye no 

 ground for ignoring the Hort. Kew. name, which is entirely omitted 

 by both authors, and that, unless this be ultimately reduce! to some 

 earlier species, M. Iceve Thunberg must be repkced by Haworth's 

 Thunhercjii. 



M. AUSTKALE Solander ex Forst. Prodr. 90 (1786), nomcn ; Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. ii. 187. 

 This is described at length in the Solander MSS. from specimens 

 collected by Banks and Solander in New Zealand in 1769 ; a drawing 

 (partly coloured) by Sidney Parkinson is among those made during 

 the yoyage. A careful collation of the MSS. relating to the collec- 

 tions inade during the yoyage leads to the conclusion that no dried 

 specimens were preserved : we have, however, a specimen in spirit, the 

 label of which is (piite illegible, which almost certainly represents the 

 plant then collected. 



A note may be added here as to the endemic Australian species. 

 Bentham (Fl. Austral, iii. 324) unites M. clavellatum Haw. with 

 M. aust)'ale, although Haworth (Misc. 80) is emphatic as to its 

 distinctness, and Berger so maintains it. In Bobert Brown's MSS. 

 he refers to this as probably identical with a plant to which he had 

 given a name which has not been published : he also gives full 

 descri})tions of two species which he himself had found, one " in 

 rupibus cum 31. cEquilateraJi a quo distinctissimum," the other in 

 Kent's Clroup, Bass's Straits, Dec. 12, 1803 ; as well as of a third 

 species, apparently also found by him, to which he attaches an un- 

 ])ublished name of Solander*. No specimens of any of these existed 

 in Brown's herbarium at the time when it became the ])roperty of the 

 i^ritish Museum. Workers at Australian botany visiting this country 

 will do well to consult Brown's MSS., which are arranged systematic- 

 ally and are readily accessible. It may be noted incidentally that the 

 species usually written cequilaterale Haw. (Misc. 77, 1803) was first 

 published by him as equilaierum (Obs. 390, 1794): the latter form 

 stands in the Kew Index as " equilateratura," and its identity with 

 the later cequilaterale^ though stated by Haworth himself, is not 

 indicated. 



SUPPLEMKNTAHY NOTES TO THE HERTS FLORA. 

 By J. E. Little, M.A. 



(Concluded from p. 52.) 



LlniHfi. The nomenclature followed is that adopted by Dr. C. E. 

 Moss in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1912, 199, 236. U. r/labra and 

 its forms were determined by A.B.J. 



* In accordance with the practice of the Department of Botany I refrain 

 from printing these unpublished names. 



