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confusion with regard to the name which the shrubby form of 
mie mae should bear. The confusion between it and Chrozo- 
obliqua arose from some misapprehension on the part of 
Miller in 1866, which has been perpetuated since. The con- 
dition in which this species occurs during its first season has 
more than once led field-botanists to mistake it for ane “pani 
herbaceous Chrozophora tinctoria, or for the pros orm of 
that species, C. tinctoria, var. subplicata. The two tery are, 
however, readily distinguished when in ripe fruit because the 
capsules of C. tinctoria are red, those of C. spe fle: are blue; 
n in flower because the anthers of C. tinctoria are about 
10 (varying from 9-11), whereas those of C. athens gifolia are 
is not ypc to maintain the variety proposed by megane 
in 1888 or the two varieties separated by the same author i 
1899. 
Agerobens tase tinctoria, A. Juss. Tent. Gen. Eu ee 7, fig. 
25/1. 11 (1824 Annua, he rbac ea; folia thomboi e0- vol tri- 
sgsiriovaty fibre lata vix longiora, margine repando-den- 
rubro-purpurea, Bistinets muricata. 
A widespread eae ar abet ct 5 ac of the Mediterranean 
basin, extending beyond Gibral thwards on the Atlantic 
seaboard to the Tagus a aed the ‘Boephovhs northward on 
the Euxine coast to the Danube and the Crimea. 
a. Zenuina, JJiill.-arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 
Erecta.—Heliotropium majus, Amat. Diosc. Enarrat. p. 43%, ; 
partim (1554); ibid. ed 2, p. 741 (1558). H. parvum, Clus. Hist. 
Nat. p. ult. cum icon. (1557); Lobel, Hist. SP | p. 133 Caahy- 
7. aie Pinet , Hist. Pl. p. ages Ape (1561) ; acts ao 
p. 302 (1561); Camerar. Epit. Matt. p. L001 cum ‘icon. (15 86) ; id. 
Hort. Med. p. 73 (1588); a *Kratterb. p. 437a cum icon. 
(1611); Schmidt, Gesn. Op. Bot. t. 4, fig. 30 (1754). H. minus 
od et Tricoccon heron "Gesn. Hort. Germ. p. 261 — 
(1561) vulgare eine gallorum, etc., Pena et Lobel. 
Advers, p. 101 cum icon. _ H. minus tricoccum, Clus. Rar 
eee p- 395, cum icon. (i576): Bauh. Phytopin. Fi 487 (1596). 
Hy: ; A 
a pa nie 
Pp. Gi 1700); zdem, olio serrato — willoso, Tournef. Cor. p- 
(1703) ; a0 ree ye wigs _ 339, t. 17 (1712). Tournesol, oh, Magn, 
Nov. Char. Pl. p. 274 (1720); adabs. Fam. ii. p. 356 (1763). 
