Mr. C. C. Babington o/i Arctium Lappa and Bardana.. 253 



Sepedonium roseiim, Fr. Overrunning all the plants of Ag. ruhescens, 

 Stapleton Wood, July 1839. Sporidia much resembling those 

 of the pedicellate Uredines. 



Puccinia tumida. On Bunium flexuosum, Brandon Hill, May 1838. 



P. CirccecE, Pers. On C. Lutetiana, Leigh Wood, September, 1839. 

 The handsomest species with which I am acquainted. 



P. Ulmaria, Dec. On Spircea Ulmaria, Stockwood. Associated 

 with Uredo Potentillarum. 



Ocidium Primula, Dec. On primrose, Nightingale Valley. Sporidia 

 yellow orange. 



O. Ari, Berk. On A, maculatum, Leigh Wood, May. 



0. leucospermum, Dec. On Anemone nemorosa, Redland, May. 



Vredo SciUarum, Grev. The sporidia grow from a thickened kind 

 of sabiculum, which is very apparent in the dried specimens. 

 Leigh Wood, May. 



U. Primula, Dec. On P. vulgaris, Nightingale Valley. Sori some- 

 times in rings. 



U. Crustacea, Berk. On Campanula rotundifolia, Wick Rocks, Glou- 

 cestershire, August. 



U. Petroselini. On Smyrnium Olusatrum, St. Vincent's Rocks. 



U. pompholygodes, Berk. Fung. Exsiccat. On Anemone nemorosa, 

 Redland. 



U. Umhellatarum, Johnst. On Conium maculatum and Athusa Cyna- 

 pium. 



U. Hypericorum, Dec. On Hyp. Androscemum, Leigh Wood, June. 



U. confluens, Dec. On Mercurialis perennis, Clifton., Sporidia dull 

 yellow. 



U. Lini. On L. catharticum. Common. 



Henry Oxley Stephens. 

 North Street, Bristol, Sept. 21, 1839. 



XXVI n. — On the Arctium Lappa and Bardana of Sir J. E. 

 Smith. By Charles C. Babington, M.A., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., &c. 



It must have appeared a remarkable circumstance to most 

 practical botanists that the plants described by Sir J. E. Smith 

 under the names of Arctium Lappa and A. Bardana, should 

 be considered as truly distinct species by many authors of 

 celebrity, and that others whose opinions were deserving of 

 equal attention should as decidedly declare them to be only- 

 varieties of one plant : indeed some botanists have gone so 



