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(Bab.), and therefore different from that of M. Boreau, hut 

 identical with the specimen in Billot's collection (No. 1177). 



If these views are correct, the Subei-ecti, although nearly 

 constantly suberect, may, under peculiar circumstances be- 

 come arched, and thus, as has been already remarked, the 

 only really suberect European species are the Idcvi 



Anderson's plate {Linn. Trans. I.e.) exceedingly well 

 represents the barren stem of our plant, as does the plate 

 in English Botany the flowering shoot : together they con- 

 stitute a good illustration of B. suherectus. There is a 

 specimen named by Anderson in Edw. Forster's Herb., now 

 in the British Museum, from a place in Scotland named 

 Stonybyers. It is marked by Smith as the true jilant, and 

 is our It. suherectus. 



The specimen of it. nitidus (Lindl.) from the Hort. Soc. 

 Garden, is R. suherectus (Anders.); in his second edition he 

 says that it is R. affinis of that work. 



The late Mr G. Don of Forfar, found this plant before 

 1813, and gave it the manuscript name of it. intermedius ! 

 He said of it (Headrick's Forfarshire, Appendix 2o), "a 

 new species. It grows near the waterfeU called the Reeky 

 Linn, on the water of Isla." 



Habitat. — Boggy woods and thickets, June. 



Area.—l 2 3 . 5 . 7 8 . 10 . 12 13 U 15 IG . . li) 

 2G ... 30. 



Localities. — i. Between Barnstaple and Combe Martin, 

 X. Dev.; Plyni V:iiley (Briggs!); Exeter, .S'. Bev. (Linn. 

 Brit. Herb.); Dnnster, S. Som. — ii. America and Apse 

 Castle wood. Isle of Wight; Ashdown Forest, U. Suss. 

 (Borr. !). — iii. Easney Park wood, Herts (Fl. Herts.); New- 

 bury, Berks (Linn. Brit. Herb.) ; Esher, Surr. (Borr. !). — 

 V. Worcester, Wartcick and Hereford (Blox.) ; Almond Park, 

 Salop. — vii. Devil's Briilge, Card. (Anderson); Wood near 

 Pthaiadyr Mawddoch, and Dolgelly, Merion. — viii. Charnwood 



