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from Ireland to Greece. but the plant does not occur in either of these 

 countries. Neither is it found in Russia ; llie casual référence by Schmal- 

 hausen as to its occurence in W. Russia not being satisfactory. The 

 records of its occurence in Hungary, Galicia, Moravia, and Moldavia, ai-e 

 only as an obviously introduced plant. 



In France, it is found here and Ihere in scattered localities, rare north 

 of Paris. In spécimens from St. Laurent in the Gironde (Motelay), the 

 capsule is quite included and shorler than the calyx, an unusual varia- 

 tion, hl Portuguese spécimens from the Serra da Caveira (mentioned 

 above), the leaves are less crowded at the base Ihan in lypical spécimens 

 and are only slightly glaucous. In Germany recorded from only a few 

 scattered stations : — Luckau and Jüterbog in the mark of Branden- 

 burg (Garcke, Fl. Deutschi.) ; near Leipzig in Saxony (Reichenbach) ; 

 Oslerfeld In Prussian Saxony (Schliephacke) ; Pomerania (Ascherson 

 and Gra?bner), not mentioned in W. Müller's récent FL v. Pommern; 

 the Ur Mlns. in Bavaria (Fr. Petri, 1898). In Switzerland it is found only 

 near Geneva (spécimens in Herb. Kew., L, Favrat and Wm. Barbey, 

 1869). Caruel enumerales several localities in Italy, and as to its range he 

 says, « nei luoghi boschivi e nei prati della regione della Querce. e 

 talvolta di quella dell'Ohvo, segnatamente delle parti centrali e mei'i- 

 dionali della penisola, delle grandi isole e di alcune delle piccole ; è 

 piuttosto rara ». 



Smith, Caruel, and others who have copied their références without 

 verifying Ihem, quote Ehrhart's Phytolacium as the earliest authorily 

 for the name of the species, unaware of the fact that it is not a book, 

 but a séries of dried spécimens issued in sets to purchasers, with a 

 printed list of « nomina nuda » proposed as gênera, only few of which 

 were afterwards laken up. The list is dated from Hannover, 1780. 

 Ehrhart, in an autobiographical fragment, states that he was not suc- 

 cessful in disposing of many sets. One of them, an imperfect example 

 from the hei'barium of Bishop Goodenough, is in the library of Kew 

 Herbarium. 



2. M. octandra : Perreymond, Cat. PI. env. Fréjus, p. oo (1833); 

 Boiss., Fl. Orient. I, p. 711 (1867) ; Willk. et Lge., Prodr. fl. Misp. 111, 

 p. 629 (1878). 



Radix albida tenuis perpendicularis ramosa. Gaules 1-2 dm. erecti 

 teretes, simplices vel apice furcati. Folia virescenti-glauca acuta nervo 

 unico valido munila, inferiora lineari-lanceolaia internodiis longioi'a, 



