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and Klatt, Linnaea XXXI. 383", but Hookkk, in 1S53, could not very well 

 mention restioidcs, which dates from 1862. and Rkh'UKNUAC ll figured the true 

 ixioidcs from New Zealand. H.\KKR i. 153 and 2. 116 thinks that Klatt's illus- 

 tration represents forniosa. To me it looks more like the Ciiilean ixioidcs, listed 

 by liAKER as L. clcgans Poepp., syn. Roterbe elegans (Poep[).) Steud. nom., 

 Plantae Lechlerianae 569, which 1 have seen. I am, however, not at all sure 

 that this is a correct interpretation of PoKl'i'lG's clegans. His description 1. c. i 

 "L. caule subramoso . . . Caules . . . leviter flexuosi, . . . ramulo uno alterove 

 abbreviato . . . P^asciculi florum alterni in caulis flexuris, interdum ramulos capi- 

 tatim terminantes . . . Mores magni . . ." could just as well apply io forrnosa. PoEl'- 

 PIG's specimen is supposed to be in Leningrad and consecjuently out of reach. 

 If it belongs to forniosa, ixioidcs of Gay and others has no valid name. L. clti- 

 loisis Klotsch is a manuscript name, mentioned by Baker, for this species, but 

 it cannot be taken up because of L. chiloisis Gunckel. The citation "L. chi- 

 lensis, Klotsch, ex Baker" in Index Kewensis is misleading. 



Graham 1. c. 383 described two species, L. crassa and L. fonnosa, and as 

 crassa precedes forniosa it could claim priority, but they are united under /(^r- 

 uiosa by every author after GRAHAM. He redescribed and illustrated forniosa 

 in Bot. Magazine, without even mentioning the other species, and I don't sup- 

 pose that we are obliged to change the name. Both were raised from seeds col- 

 lected in South Chile; LiNDLEY, Bot. Register, indicates Chiloe as the place 

 where the seeds o{ forniosa were gathered. L. crassa is said to be more robust 

 and to have larger flowers [L. grandifiora Philippi non Sweet), and the outer 

 edge of the equitant leaves is said to be minutely serrulate in crassa and smooth 

 in forniosa. As far as my experience goes even the stoutest specimens, with 

 leaves as wide and flowers as large as in crassa, have a perfectly smooth keel. 

 Baker i. 153 mentions crassa as "Var. L. crassa Grah." 



In his monograph of Sisyrinchiiini (l. 96, 97) Klatt lists under no. 39 5. 

 sessilijioruni Poepp., "Ins. Juan Fernandez leg. Bertero nr. 13 16, mis. Delessert 

 183 1, Herb. Reg. Berol. nr. 108". Gay cites Valdivia and Concepcion, but not 

 Juan Fernandez, BAKER "Chile and Juan Fernandez", and DiELS 1. c. 479 fol- 

 lowed him. Steudel, Nomencl. ed. 2. 595 quotes Bertero 13 16 under "S. Fer- 

 nandezianum Steud. Hochst.", which is a nomen nudum. Neither of these names 

 was mentioned by JOHOW. 



According to Klatt 2. 382 Poeppig's 5. sessiliflorum is = Libertia coer- 

 idescens Kunth et Bouche, and the same is, according to Baker I. c. 153, the 

 case with the specimens quoted by HoOKER and Arnott in the Botany of 

 Captain Beechey's Voyage 47 under S. sessiliflorum. Also POEPPIG 1. c. 2 refers 

 to these specimens in addition to those collected by himself in Chile. He did 

 not visit Juan Fernandez, nor does he quote specimens from there; Klatt seems 

 to have been the first to do so. A specimen formerly belonging to Klatt's 

 herbarium, now in Stockholm, is labelled "coerulescens Kth & Bouche S. ses- 

 siliflorum Poppig leg. Poppig & Philippi in Chile". The identification is correct, 

 and the identity with POEPPlG's Sisyrinchium seems well established thanks to 



