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variety, the hint may be sufficiently understood, as indeed 

 I would have it; and it is the only double oversight 

 (I think) committed in the whole work. 



17. As for your suspicion of my misapplying synonyma 

 to the Altli. profunde serrato S. dentato folio, J. B., it 

 will be soon taken off, when I shall tell you that my 

 opinion is, the Thmngiaca Camerario ejicsd., J, B., is 

 the selfsame thing, though he seems to make them two, 

 but ^vith a great deal of vacillation and wavering. And 

 now you will find Casp. Bauh. synonyma here used recon- 

 cilable enough to what it was intended, and Clusius's 

 names will fall in pat, as you would have them. 



18. If your Ledum AljAuum hirsut. min. Cat. Exteror. 

 be my Cist us C/mvicsr/iododendros, S^'c, it is very different 

 from the Cistiis pumilis montis Baldi, 8fc., J. B., though 

 this be a Chmnce.rhododendros too, as being a monopeta- 

 loid, having but one leaf, with some top division in the 

 flower. 



19. My Volygoimm minus prommbefis niveum Glaucis 

 exigucefol. is undoubtedly the Pohjgala repens, nuperor. 

 Lob., and I beheve the Polyc/omim minus ccmdicans 

 sujjinum of Dr. Magnol, though he upon mistake applies 

 it to the Farony cilia hispanica, Clus,, which is a more 

 siu'rect plant. And that the Folyyonum verticillatum, 

 J. B., is very diverse from this Poly gala of Lobel, may 

 be observed from the particular of its leaves towards the 

 tops of the branches ; for arriving within an inch and a 

 half thereof, they leave the stalk well nigh naked for 

 some space, and then, as it were to recover that loss, 

 they grow to the very lip in a most close and imbricated 

 order, which is never to be found in the Folyyonu7n 

 verticillatum kind. Something of this peculiar may be 

 observed in Lobel's figure of' it, though the interstice be 

 not expressed. The Folyyoti. minimum monta7ium ni- 

 veum et sericeum, Aldr,, is no other than the Faronych. 

 Hisj)., Clus., a false synonyme, and ill applied by Dr. 

 Magnol to his supine sort, which I believe to be the 

 same with mine. 



