268 Dr. Smith's Remarks on the Sijvonyms and 



recently figured by A'entenat in his splendid Jardin de la Malmai' 

 son, t. 118; as well as two wild Siberian specimens of the plant 

 figured by Gnielin, v. 4. t. 69- This last figure is quoted in the 

 second Mantissa, p. 455, for H. Ascyron, which Gmelin thought 

 it to be, perhaps rightly; but the calyx is much larger than 

 usual, and very unequal, so as to raise a doubt in my mind. 

 The main point, however, respecting our present inquiry is esta- 

 blished, that the true H. Ascyron, which is the Ascyron magna 

 Jfore, Bauh. Pin. 280, P?-od. 130, is a native of the Pyrenees ; 

 perhaps also of moist meadows in Siberia. My next object was 

 to ascertain what Tournefort understood by the above phrase of 

 Bauhin, adopted in his Institutiones Rei Herbaria, 256, under 

 Avhich he quotes Morison, wiio, as I have said, confounds two 

 species together. This question is decided by Tournefort's t. 131, 

 f. 2, evidently drawn from H. Ascyron and not from H. calycinum, 

 which last it appears Tournefort never knew, otherwise he could 

 not have passed it over. The next botanist after Sir George 

 Wheeler who gathered //. calycinum wild Avas the late Professor 

 John Sibthorp, who found it in the woods about the village of 

 Belgrad near Constantinople, no doubt the same place where 

 Wheeler first discovered it. The situation is not unlike that near 

 Cork where Mr. Drummond found our specimen, sheltered, and 

 of no considerable elevation, with a southern exposure towards 

 the sea. Dr. Sibthorp has left a figure of this plant for the Flora 

 GrcEca, which is one of Mr. Ferdinand Bauer's most exquisite 

 drawings ; but he mistook it for //. Ascyron, and has therefore 

 quoted Tournefort's synonym above mentioned. No other plant 

 in this Avriter's Institutiones or Corollarium, as far as I can dis- 

 cover, can ]K)ssibly be referred to H. calycinum. Ventenat de- 

 termined his Ascyrum erectum, salicis folio, magnojlore, Inst. 256, 

 by Jussieu's herbarium, to be H. pyramidatum. 



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