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The name is not taken up in DC. Prodr., nor, so far as I know, 

 elsewhere : it is probably a form of C. officinalis. 



Arctotis prostrata (p. 210). 



The name is not taken up in Fl. Capensis, but is universally 

 accepted as a synonym of A. repens Jacq. (1798). The plant is 

 now placed under Arctotheca and will stand as 

 Arctotheca prostrata (Salisb.)-comb. nov. 

 Arctotis prostrata Sahsb. Prodr. 210 (1796). 

 Arctotis repens Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 306 (1798). 

 Arctotheca repens Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. 41 (1791) ; Harv. 

 and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 467. 



Narcissus (pp. 220-225). As in the case of Ixia, it is probable 

 that some of Salisbury's names will ultimately take precedence of 

 those at present generally adopted, but this must be left to mono- 

 graphers of the genus, who will consult in connection with it the 

 treatment of the genus by Salisbury in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 304-366 

 and in his Genera, pp. 98-138. Vol. viii. of his drawings contains 

 a large number of figures and descriptions, with numerous 

 specimens, illustrating the genus : for those relating to the poetic2is 

 section Mr. Pugsley's paper issued as the second Supplement to 

 this Journal for 1915 may be consulted. In his monograph of the 

 AmaryllidacecB, Mr. Baker does not seem to have quoted the Pro- 

 dromus at first hand, as Salisbury's species — amplus, exiguus, 

 ohvallaris, pulchellus, pzwiilus, hihceformis — are not taken up 

 therein. 



Spergula pallida (p. 298). 



I am indebted to Mr. N. E. Brown for identifying this plant, 

 which is retained in Ind. Kew. without equivalent. Salisbury 

 based the species, of which he gives a long description, upon a 

 specimen from Vaillant. The name involves a new combination, 

 as under : it will be observed that G. Don, who first placed the 

 plant in Spergularia, took up Sahsbury's name. 

 Lepigonum pallidum (Sahsb.) comb. nov. 

 Spergula pallida Salisb. Prodr. 298 (1796). 

 Arenaria glandulosa Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 56 (1798). 

 Spergularia pallida G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 425 (1831). 

 Spergularia glandulosa Heynh. Nomencl. ii. 689 (1840), pro 



parte. 

 Lepigonum marginatum Koch var. /3. glandulosa Sond. in 



Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 135 (1859). 

 Lepigonum glandulosum Kindb. in Nov. Act. Upsal. iv 

 (1863). 



Erica jasminiflora (p. 293) is cited in Fl. Cap. (iv. 193) as from 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 382 (1802). A number of small specimens 

 from Salisbury illustrating this paper, his principal work on the 

 genus, are in Herb. Mus. Brit., with numerous drawings of details 

 not by Salisbury but often bearing notes in his hand, as do also 

 the sheets in the Banksian Herbarium. Sketches by Salisbury 

 himself will be found in vol. iii of his drawings. 



