538 Mr. Forster's Observations on the Esula major Germanica. 



of plants which had previously been considered distinct by eminent botanical 

 authors, without marking them with the usual Greek characters, is uncour- 

 teous and tending to great confusion, I insert the E. palustris of the Linnsean 

 Herbarium as a variety. I am not sufficiently acquainted with E. procera and 

 villosa to be able to judge whether they should also be so considered. 



The restoration of this Spurge to a place in the British Flora fully vindicates 

 the accuracy of Lobel, who has been accused of noting plants as English on 

 insufficient authority. He perhaps discovered it when on a visit to his friend 

 Edward Saint Loo, who resided in Somersetshire, and was much attached to 

 the study of botany. That it has a right to be so ranked, after an abode of 

 nearly three centuries, the most sceptical must allow, even though it might 

 have escaped from the neighbouring grounds of the Prior of Bath, or from the 

 physic gardens of the herbarists of that city. 



