(14) F. IV. WILLIAMS. REVISION Ol' THK GENUS HERMAIUA. 501) 



ex Herb. Hort. Petropolit., gathered in Ihe della of Uie Volga, near 

 Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea. 



Geogr. area. Riissia, in the governments of Kursk, Bersarabia, and 

 Astrakhan; Soimgaria. 



IGONOGRAPHIA SPEGIERUM 



1. ICONES PRE-LINNiEANiE ' 



H. alpina. — Plukcnet, Abnagest, Bot., p. 302, t. 53, f. 3 (1696); Peliver, 

 Herb. Brit. Cat., t. 10, f. 6 (1713). {Polygonum maritimum longius vadica- 

 tum, etc.). 



H. hirsuta. — Lobel, Plant. Stirp. Ic, p. 421 {Herba Turca), (Plantin 

 press, Antwerp, 1581); J. Bauliin, Hist. Plant. Univ. III, p. 379, f. 1 [Hernia- 

 ria hirsuta), (Yverdon, 1651); Tabernsemontanus, Neuiv Kreuterb., p. 1219, 

 f. 2 (Herniaria), (ed. of 1664, Basel); Chabrey, Stirp. Sciagr. Ic, p. 455, f. 2 

 (Geneva, 1677); Zannichelli, Ist. Piant. Venez., p. 138, t. 254 (Venice, 1735). 



H. glabra. — Matttiioli, Comment. Dioscor., p. 953 {Polygonon minus), (ed. 

 [Valgrisi] of 1565, Venice), — not figured in any of the earlier éditions begin- 

 ning with the « editio princeps » of 1554 ; Comment. Dioscor. II, p. 302 {Poly- 

 gonon minus), (ed. [Valgrisi] of 1583, Venice), — a clearer impression than the 

 preceding ; J. Bauhin, Hist. Plant. Univ. III, p. 378 {Herniaria glabra), 

 (Yverdon, 1651); Chabrey, Stirp. Sciagr. Ic, p. 455, f. 1 (Geneva, 1677); 

 Cupani, Panphyt. Sic III, t. 131 (Palermo, 1713); Blackwell, Curions Herbai, 

 t. 320 (London, 1739). 



H. fruticosa. — Barrelier, PI. Call. Hisp. Ital. obs. Ic. 713, 715 {Polygonum 

 fruticosum erectum hispanicun [= var. erecta], Polygonum supinum fruticosum 

 [est planta Lœflingiana]), (ed. by Jussieu, Paris, 1714). 



II. ICONES RECENTIORES 



H. incana. — Sibth. et Sm. Fl. Grœca, III, p. 47, t. 252 {H. macrocarpa). 

 H. hirsuta. — Sowerby, Engl. Bot., t. 1379 ; Baxter, Brit. Bot. IV, p. 304; 

 Dietr. FI. Boruss. V, p. 306. 



H. scabrida. — Boiss. Voy. Bot. Espagne, p. 218, t. 62 (1845). 



^ Many other figures are cited for species of Herniaria, mostly in error and 

 copied from one work to another without vérification either as to the édition of 

 the book or to the plant itself. Ail the citations given hère bave been verified 

 by comparing authentic spécimens of the plants with the figures given in the 

 différent éditions of the works quoted, and wrong identifications rejected. 



