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In 1809 Willclenow (Ilort. Berol. 578) extended his view of 

 B. liypericoides by including in it as a synonym B. cistoides Adam 

 (in Web. & Mobr, Beitr. i. 61, 1805) ; and from that period it is 

 the latter plant which, according to Jaubert and Spach, the mono- 

 graphers of the genus (who retain it as a distinct species), has 

 represented B. liypericoides in subsequent literature and in herbaria. 

 It is this that is figured as liypericoides by J. E. Jacquin {Eclogce i, 

 92, t. 627, 1815), who includes cistoides as a synonym, and by Sahs- 

 bury (Parad. 1. 18, 1805) as B. liyiifolia — a name which he substituted 

 for liypericoides, which he considered inappropriate. 



The interest attaching to La Billardi^re's plant is increased by 

 the fact that Jaubert and Spach (Ann. Sc. Nat. 3s. viii. 381 ; 

 111. PI. Or. iii. 55) ■'• took this, of which they had seen an authentic 

 specimen, as the type of a new species, B. Billardieri, which has 

 been retained as distinct by later authors — e.g. Boissier (Fl. 

 Orient, i. 762), who had also seen La Billardi6re's plant and 

 Niedenzu (Pflanzenfam. iii. 6, 293), who follows Jaubert and 

 Spach in placing it with B. squarrosa in a separate sub-section. 

 The name liypericoides was altogether abandoned by these authors, 

 who as has been said adopt for the plant which had been generally 

 so called B. cistoides Adam — a name which, in view of the super- 

 session of Willdenow's original liypericoides by La Billardiere's 

 earlier trivial, will apparently have to stand. 



The following sums up the synonymy of the two plants : 

 Eeaumuria ALTERNIFOLIA (La Bill.) comb. nov. 



Hypericum alternifolium La Bill. Ic. PI. Syr. dec. ii. 17, 



t. 10 (1791). 

 Eeaumuria hypericoides Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 1250 (1799) ; 

 Poiret Encycl. vi, 87 (1804) ; Pers. Syn. ii. 85 (1807) ; 

 Willd. Hort. Berol. 578 (1809) ex parte. 

 E. Billardieri Jaub. & Sp. in Anyi. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, viii, 381 ; 

 III. PI. Or. in. 55; Boiss. Fl. Or. i. 762 (1867). 

 Eeaumuria cistoides Adam in Web. & Mohr Beitr. ziir 

 Natiirhmide, i. 61 (1805) ; Jaub. & Sp. II cc. 380, 55, 

 cum syn. 

 E. hypericoides Willd. I. c. ex parte; J. F. Jacq. Eclog. i. 92, 

 t. 62 (1815) ; Boiss. I. c. 761 ; et auct. plur., non Willd. 

 Sp. PI. (1799). 

 E. linifoHa SaHsb. Pcimd. t. 18 (1805). 



ANDEOSACE CILIATA IN THE ALPS. 



By H. Stuart Thompson, F.L.S. 



Several small specimens of an Androsace from the Grands 

 Mulcts (10,000 ft.), on Mont Blanc, which in 1903 I had carelessly 



* I do not know which of these was first published : the volume of the 

 Annales is dated 1847, that of 111. PI. Or. 1847-50 : the Kew Index cites the 

 latter. The text of both is identical. 



