296 
Erythraea Centaurium, L. 
Greek Macedonia: neighbourhood of Jera Karu, Harris 421. 
S 
ymphytum Schimp. | 
Greek Macedonia: near Jera Karu, Harris 419, 
y , Hoffm. 
Greek Macedonia: near Jera Karu, Harris 453. 
Lithospermum purp ceruleum, L. 
Greek Macedonia: neighbourhood of Jera Karu, Harris 420, 
Echium plantagineum, L. 
Island of Lemnos : Sk. Butcher. 
Verbascum Blattaria, L. 
Greek Macedonia : grown from seeds collected to the south of 
Karamudli, June 29th, 1917, flowered at Richmond, Surrey, 
May 27th, 1920, T'urrill (seed-number) 65. 
One interesting morphological fact concerning the specimens 
quoted above seems worth recording. In one plant the lowest 
flower of the raceme, or apparent raceme, and the first to open, 
possessed only four stamens, all fertile, with no trace of the 
adaxial fifth. The remaining flowers, which opened later, 
possessed each five stamens, thes the adaxial one frequently 
shorter and with a smaller an 
The genus Celsia is “laa Redital to the genus Verbascum 
and the only generic difference is in the number of the stamens, 
five in Verbascum and four in Celsia. The sections Blattariae 
and Blattarioidea (sensu Boissier, Fl. Or. iv.) of Verbascum consist 
of species having the same racemose, or apparently racemose, 
type of inflorescence as that found in the genus Celsia. It is 
also interesting to note that both genera show two similar 
divergent groups, the one with all the stamens having their 
anthers reniform and mediofixed, the other with the anthers 
of two of the stamens adnate-decurrent, and the anthers of the 
remainder reniform and mediofixed. It is probable that the 
existing classification which separates the two genera solely 
on the number of fertile stamens is very artificial. 
Daenzeri, Fauché et Chaub. 
Greek Macedonia: plants grown from seed collected near 
Salonika, — from the Rev. Canon Fowler and Miss A. 
Taylor, | 
This Bio extends from Messenia and Laconia to Macedonia. 
Halacsy (Conspect. Fl. Graec., ii.,:p. 397) quotes a specimen 
collected in Thessalia: prope Malakasi in Pindo (Sintenis it. 
thessal. n. 632), as Celsia Boissieri, Heldr. et Sart. In the Kew 
Herbarium the specimen under this number is Celsia Daenzeri, 
Fauché et Chaub., and not C. Boissieri, Heldt. et Sart., of which 
species the writer has seen authentic specimens only from Attica. 
Digitalis lanata, Ehrh. 
Gallipoli : white and brown flowers, Durham 15. 
Greek Macedonia : cultivated from seeds, J. Anderson. 
