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Tab. 24. Pharnaceum Spergula. , Mollugo Spergula of Lin. 

 W.fyA. 



Sir J. E. Smith, in Rees's Cyclopedia, has shewn that the name of Mollugo in 

 the margin of the Mantissa, p. 561, is a mere lapsus, and that Linnaeus, in 

 removing his M. Spergula to Pharnaceum had no intention to change the 

 specific name. The name of P. Molluyo he had before occupied in the Species 

 Plantarum for an Ethiopian plant, ' foliis linearibus/ and for this P. Mollugo 

 and for the P. glomeratum of the Supplementum Plantarum the same figure of 

 Plukenet's is quoted. 



25. Hedyotis racemosa. Lam. H.Rheedii. W. fy A. Olden- 



landia paniculata of Lin. 



Rheede has described this plant with two, whereas H. Rheedii is described with 

 four seeds in each capsule, and there is nothing to shew that Linnaeus, when 

 he called it an Oldenlandia, had ever seen a ripe seed vessel. 



26. Pharnaceum triphyllum. Denn. Mollugo triphylla of 



Loureiro. W.fyA. M. dimidiata. Ham. MS. 



Quoted with a query by Burman for Oldenlandia paniculata, though it approaches 

 much nearer to his figure of the Linnean Mollugo stricta, and it is far from 

 improbable that M. triphylla may be only a variety of the latter. 



27. Phyllanthus depressus. Ham. MS. 



Roxburgh has quoted this figure (as I suspect accidentally instead of vol. ii. t. 27) 

 for the P. multiftorus of Willdenow, and he may probably have changed the 

 name of his plant from P. scandens on discovering it to be Willdenow's species. 

 See note on vol. ii. t. 27. The present plant in Dr. Hamilton's Commentary, 

 at the Linnean Society, is said to be the ' P. depressus of Roxburgh's MS.,' 

 and it is quoted with a query by Dennstedt for the P. debills of Willdenow ; 

 but, from Willdenow's reference to Plukenet, it is more likely to be his 

 P. dutnetosus. 



28. Hydrolea Zeylanica. Vahl. Nama Zeylanica of Lin. Roxb. 



Steris Javana of Lin. Mant. Poiret. 



29. Aerua Tandalo. Ham. MS. 



Either as an Achyranthes, a Celosia, an Illebrum, or an Aerua, authors- have 

 generally followed Linnaeus in quoting this figure for his Achyranthes lanatu, 

 and I much doubt whether the A. Tandalo is more than a variety. 



30. Hedyotis subcordata. Denn. 



Dennstedt's species, which he has called ' H. subcordata, mihi,' is most probably 

 founded wholly on this figure and description of Rheede's, and it may be 

 doubted whether any other Professor of Botany would have taken it for an 

 Hedyotis. It most probably belongs to the Euphorbiaceae, and is considered 

 to be a Phyllanthus by Professor Don. 



31. Portulacca meridiana of Lin. Supt. Poiret. P. quadrifida 



Var. DC. 



Misquoted by Burman for his Oldenlandia repens, in which he has been followed 

 by Lamarck ; for Oldenlandia depressa by Willdenow, and for Hedyotis depressa 

 by Rcemer and Schultes. It is quoted by Wight and Arnott for P. quadrifida 

 of Linnaeus's Mantissa, and they, as well as De Candolle, considor P. meridiana 

 and P. quadrifida to be the same species. 



