152 Prof. Buckman on Cnicus tuberosus. 
this I stated in an account I sent to the ‘Phytologist,’ and which 
appeared in the September Number of that Journal for 1856.” 
For the present, then, I must content myself with having 
offered presumptive evidence of the non-specific character of 
what is, after all, a decidedly distinctive form; and as I have 
brought home some specimens and planted them in my botanical 
garden, where I shall also introduce the acaulis and acanthotdes, 
I shall look forward to the results of experiments with these with 
no little degree of interest, as in all probability, like so many 
other experiments which I have been enabled to perform in the 
same direction, these may serve still more to perplex the question 
“What is a species ?” 
Cirencester, July 1857. 
