■g Ernst Lehmann: 



of Ins assistants, so as to make assurance doubly sure. I had sent 

 for comparison fruit of Y. agrestis and specimens of Buxbaumii, 



-athered in autumn as well as in spring in the same field near 

 Petworth. The autumn (October) specimens have fewer and mucli 

 smaller corollas than those gatliered in May. M. Lecomte writes: 

 (1) „The specimen of V.persica Poiret (Herbier Cosson) = V. persica 

 of Lamarck"s herbaiium. Poiret has added the synonym = V. Bux- 

 baumii Ten. 2 Mr. Lacaita's specimens seem to belong to the same 

 species as those of Lamarck's and Cosson' s herbarium. (3) These 

 (Lamarck's and Cosson" s) have not got the capsules of V. agrestis 

 sent by Mr. Lacaita." If Poiret's own identification of bis specimen 

 with Tenore's species had not been overlooked for all these years. 

 doubts would not been cast on the identity of bis V. persica." — 

 Es ist zweifellos von Interesse, daß die Identität der V.persica 

 nun außer Zweifel gestellt ist. auf die allgemeine Gültigkeit des 

 Xamens V. Tournefortii hat das. wie aus meinen obigen Darlegungen 

 hervorgeht, keinen Einfloß. 



Im Journal of Botany vom Jahre 1918 heißt es sodann bei 

 Rilstone in einem Artikel: Notes on Cornish plants: „Cornish forms 

 of Veronica agrestis (in the aggregate sense) present considerable 

 difficulty."' Er bringt dann weiter folgendes Zitat aus Daveys Flora 

 of Comwall | S. 330). 



V. didyma Ten. — Not abundant weed. but appears to be well 

 distributed throughout the eonntry. 



V f agrestis L. A very common and abundant weed. 



Die Piichtigstellung der Nomenklatur didyma = polita ist im 

 gleichen Jahrgange (S. 156) durch Edward S. Marshall erfolgt 

 (vgl. meine eingehenden Darlegungen 1908. S. 238 ff. i. 



Rilstone aber berichtet dann weiter: ,.I lind two forms ; One 

 — which as far as my experience goes is of rare occurence — has the pale 

 Üowers. oval sepals, gland fringed at the base. and short style of 

 V. agrestis; but the numerous jointed baira on the stein and pedicels 

 are not ..mostly gland-tipped". as Synie says is the case with typical 

 T . agrestis. The other — a more freqnent but by no means common 

 plant — presents diifeulty chietiy in the capsule being rather thickly 

 clothed with short straight or curved glandless hairs with longer 

 glandulär hairs intermixed. Babington's Manual speaks of the 

 haii-s on the capsule of V. agrestis as ..all straight and glandulär" 

 and those of didyma as ..short dense glandless hairs and other shorter 

 glandulär ones". Neither description fits this plant. 



The capsule elothing of the annpal species of Veronica is possibly 



