LS 
RANUNCULUS CHJEROPHYLLOS. ; 227 
Graells); Portugal, R. gregarius, Brot.! (Masson, Sir T. Gage) and R. 
dimorphorrhizus, Brot. (Welwitsch) ; Corsica, R. insularis, Viv. (Soleirol), 
N. Italy (Savi, hapy Sicily (Huet de Pavillon, Todaro); Greece 
(Heldreich) ; Crete, R _ flabellatus, — sys dreich); Algeria (Balansa). 
It is ~ recorded from Turkey, a, and the islands of Sardinia and 
It ha 
applied to this species, and with some justice. Linnzeus gu ded his 
species (Sp. Plant. ed. 1, p. 555) on the descriptions and figures of VA 
(Kephrasis, p. 312 and t. 311), Barrelier (Plant. Gall. ete. p. 56, fig. 581) 
e unifloro to tem, and Zinea Map ifidis to i tbe ed he, 
vane quotes additional synonyms, and also the pacar phn a C. 
Bauhin, made from Italian specimens, in his ‘ Prodromus,' p. iv., 
which is a very good one of our plant. It is pde. decus. net a 
consideration ‘of his synonymy—for, though what Barrelier meant is 
doubtful, Columna’s description and figure are excellent,* and even 
Guettard's bad description doubtless meant the same—that Linnzus 
intended by the name R. Cherophyllos the = generally now so called, 
though it seems certain that he only knew it from books, 
This appears still more evident from an inspection of the Linnzan 
herbarium. The specimen there named ‘ Cher ophyllos," is a bad one, in 
three fragments, and without fruit or petals; it is not very easy to name 
it, but it is certainly not the rig we are considering.t I think a dis- 
labelled by d himself is in the Banksian herbarium i in the British 
puru m.) What is still more to the dun is e a al type specimen of 
fectly well acquainted with R. bulbosus, the faulty labelling in this case 
must be considered an example of what is not very unfrequent in the 
Linnean herbarium. Valuable as that collection very often is, yet 
* Sir J. E. Smith, however (Rees’ r vol. xxix.), referred these to R. 
mile Vahl. 
J. E. Smith in Rees’ Cyclop. vol xxix., has carefully described, as R. 
Char "phis L., this specimen, and dee itis diee d one of the plant he 
had se n. Smith ote have the common S. European species by 
another 
f An aiiiidaokek error for lesbicus, which is Tournefort's name. 4$ 
