216 CORRESPONDENCE OF RAY. 



observe, beside that of its being smaller than our com- 

 mon, was a foliaceous wideness on the pedicle of each 

 leaf, even to its insertion to the root or stalk ; whereas 

 our common has a slender, round, and nervous pedicle, 

 for a considerable distance towards the leaf. 



Page 64. Although you seem to suspect the Arch- 

 angel. Dod., Cms., to be the same growing on mountainous 

 places with the common Angel, sylv. [A. sylvestris, Linn.] 

 in our meadows, and so difference of place only to make 

 the diversity, I assure myself they are specifically diverse ; 

 and the Scandiaca* has this peculiar, that it produces its 

 umbels not only a-top, but also on the side of the stalk, 

 two or three ex alis foliormn, and sometimes one or two 

 along the upper stalks without any leaf at all ; and I 

 have seen it above seven feet high. 



Page 247. Among the emendanda I find a query 

 about the Cnicus spinosior of the Parisian Catalogue, 

 which I take to be no other than that perennial sort you 

 set down in your incomparable ' Cat. Angl./ and observed 

 it to grow plentifully at lesser distances from the sea, 

 both in Italy, Sicily, and the more southern tracks of 

 France, whose resemblance, though it come well nigh 

 that figure in Cms., under the title of Carlina sylv., 

 which I esteem no more than our spontaneous annual 

 sort, yet certainly it seems more nearly to respond the 

 Heracantha, Tab. Ic. 697, both as to its figuration and 

 manner of growing, putting forth its flowers in the way 

 of an umbel. And though this be made use of as a 

 synonyme to express the foregoing common kind, as we 

 find it even in C. Bauh. himself, yet I am inclined to 

 believe this very Heracantha is nothing different from the 

 Cnicus of the Parisians, and in all likelihood the same 

 with the Cnicus sylv. spinosior polycaph. of the same 

 C. Bauh. ; not, therefore, to be accepted for our common 

 kind, nor indeed the Acarna 8. Acorna altera Apula 

 column., which latter, both from the Fabian description 



* This appears to be a mountain form of Angelica Arcluuu/elica, Liun., 

 but not a native of Britain. C. C. B. 



