j which odes with the Linnean character 
C. acanthoides, is a Swiss plant from 
. Schleicher, marked “ acantAoides." The 
E are truly solitary and pedunculated ; 
the peduncle, above the uppermost leaf, 
two to four inches long, and not at all 
winged. Schleicher’s C. crispus is like 
our C. acanthoides, save that the leaves 
are broader, softer, and less deeply pinna- 
tifid, and the scales of the involucre are 
less spiny: the leaves white and downy 
beneath : probably the C. crispus B. inte- 
grifolius of Reichenb. Fl. Excursoria. 
; -. From all that I have said, I think it will 
= be clear that our C. acanthoides is the 
C. crispus of Linneus and of most conti- 
i nental Boianists; and if the species are 
2 ; but I am myself in- 
AR clined to the opinion that they are merely 
. Varieties of each other, of which the C. 
|... aeanthordes of Linneus is the less frequent 
22 form, so unfrequent, indeed, that succeed- 
. ing Botanists have modified the character 
till it insensibly passes into C. crispus. 
Habenaria bifolia. Br. and Br. Fl. ed. 8. 
P. 376.—This is the Orchis bifolia of 
Linn, O. bifolia, var. 8. Sm.—O. bifolia, 
B. brachyglossa, Wall. — Platanthera 
_ brachyglossa, Reichenb.—Borr. in litt. 
_—Professor Lindley makes the brachy- 
glossa his var. B. of Platanthera bi ifo- 
ha; “ anther emarginate, lip somewhat 
shorter, leaves obtuse, very much taper- 
ing to the base. 
Habenaria chlorantha, Brit. F1—Platan- 
_ therachlorantha, Curt. Lind. Syn. Suppl. 
P. 930, who observes, “ that its large 
2 
grows in forest woods and heaths. Both 
are common in Sussex in their appro- 
priate stations, They differ in the fo- 
e. I have never seen P. bi ola, +. 
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Liparis. “ Reichenbach's objection to this 
name, that it was previously given to a 
universally received genus of Insects, 
seems decisive against its being retained 
for the Ophrys Loeselit, Linn.” Borr 
Such coincidences must frequently occur, 
and, although they ought to be avoided as 
much as possible, yet they do not appear 
to me to be productive of any serious 
inconvenience. In the present instance 
I believe it will be found that the termi- 
nation of the two words is different, Li- 
parus! in Entomology. A greater objec- 
tion to the name might perhaps be found 
in the circumstance of there being already 
a Liparia in Botany among the Legumi- 
names invented by Richard, sanctioned 
by such high authority as Brown and. 
Lindley, and which have now obtained 
general currency, should not be changed, 
except on the most substantial grounds, 
such as I think do not exist in the pre- 
sent case. 
Zannichellia palustris and dentata—In 
the fourth volume of Sir James Smith’s 
English Flora, p. 70, we find the fol- 
lowing observation under Zannichellia 
palustris —“ Z. dentata of Willdenow, 
separated by him at my suggestion, from 
our British plant, was long ago well dis- 
tinguished by Micheli, ¢. 34. f. 2, and if 
he be correct as to the two cells of its 
anther and the toothed stigmas, nothing 
can be more distinct. It may probably 
be found in England.” Such a Zanni- 
chellia has been found in England, and 
will probably prove to be far from un- 
common, as it was detected almost at 
the same time by Mr. J. E. Bowman, at 
Gresford, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, 
1 At least the genus of Insects, among the Cole- 
optera, Eid by Olivier, is . Och- 
senheimer has a genus Liparis among Lepidoptere, 
to wur probably Reichenbach alludes: it is the 
some others, Hypogymna, Hubner, Stephens, 
Kirby, ae And even Liparus is now called M. 
by Schoenherr quum so Ass neither Liparus 
Insects. Li- 
nor pe 
paris is, houeses, a pame given by Pliny se a kind of à 
reitüred toa genus in Ichthyology. 
