ON THE NAME LAMPEOTHAMNUS 337 



provides that " no one is authorised to reject, change or modify a 

 name (or combination of names) because it is badly chosen and 

 reading this article in conjunction with art. 15, there would not 

 seem any option but to retain the name, not the least doulDt 

 apparently existing as to the identity of the species mtended by it. 

 Against this view, however, it might be urged that the name 

 papulosa is more than " badly chosen," that it is such an excep- 

 tional case as may have been contemplated by art. 17, and that a 

 change might rightly be made " based on a more profound know- 

 ledge of facts." . , 



It does not seem to me that the case aganist Wallroth s name 

 is sufficiently strong to warrant its rejection, so I reluctantly 

 present the new combination Lamprothamnium papulosum. 

 The synonymy of genus and species stand as follows : — 

 Lamprothamnium, nom. nov. 



Lamprothamnus Braun, in Braun & Nordst. Iragm. 

 Monogr. Charac. pp. 16, 100 (1882) non Hiern. 

 Lamprothamnium papulosum, comb. nov. 



Chara papulosa Wallroth, Flor. Crypt. Germ, n, p. 10/ 



(1833). 

 C. Pouzolsii Braun, in Flora xviii, i, p. 58 (1835). 

 G. WallrotUi, Euprecht, Distr. Crypt. Vase. Imp. Boss. 



p. 12, and Svmb. ad Hist. PL Boss. p. 80 (1845). 

 G. alopecuroidea Braun, in N. Denks. Schweiz. Ges. Naturw. 



X, p. 13 (1849). 

 C. alopecuroides Wallman, Forsok. Syst. Uppstall. Charac. 



p. 53 (1853). 

 Liiclmothamnus alopecuroides (misprmted alopecoroides) 

 Braun, in Monatsb. Akad. Berl. for 1867, p. 798 (1868). 

 L. WaUrothii Wahlstedt, Monogr. Sver. & Norg. Charac. 



p. 23 (1875). 

 LamjJTothanmus alopecuroides Braun, in Braun & Nordstedt, 



Fragm. Monogr. Charac. p. 100 (1882). 

 L. papulosus Beguinot & Formiggini, in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Ital. xiv, p. 108 (1908). 



SHOBT NOTES. 



Aquilegia alpina L. IN Scotland. — In the third week of 

 August this year, when in Caenlochan Glen with my wife and 

 Mr. Druce, I gathered Aquilegia alpijia L. growing in the crags at 

 an altitude of 2850 feet. It was associated with Ericjeron alpinum, 

 Saussurea alpina, Cerastium alpinum, Veronica alpina, etc. There 

 were three or four plants in fine flower, several other plants, and 

 many seedlings. Judging from the thickness of the root-stocks, 

 the plants seem to have been estabhshed there a very long time. 

 That it has escaped notice hitherto must, I think, be owing to the 

 inaccessibility of the rock ledge on which it grows and the late 

 period of flowering. I saw plants flowering this year on the 

 11th of September. Caenlochan is a strictly preserved deer forest, 



