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angustatis profunde dentatis.” With this the Prodromus ieee 
another plant, of which the native country is equally unknow 
C. rigescens Hornemann (Hort. Hafn. 852) described as “ pita’ 
conicis, flosculis radii longissimis, fol. radicalibus petiolatis ovali- 
lanceolatis, caulinis sessilibus ovalibus “pach serratis rigidis.” 
The synonymy of the two species is as follo 
egy RIGIDA Banks & Sol. in Russell, a ii. 263 (1794) ; 
“ Rus x Steud. Nomenel. 175 ate 
CENTAUREA RIGESCENS Hornem. Hort. Hafn. 852 ( 
C. rigida Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 61 (1813), non 
Banks & Sol 
Crocus sativus f. veRNUS L. (Banks & Sol.). 
Russell’s specimens of this have been seen and reported upon 
by more than one botanist. = r (Bot. Mag. t. 1384) refers it 
to his C. sulphwreus, but Herbert (in a note on the sheet, — 
he ity) says iis embodied in his paper in Journ. Hort. Soe. ii. 
material for determin sie riting of certain varieties of C. 
lageneflorus, he says :—“‘There is in the Banksian Herbarium a 
remnant of a << sama said to have been eens near Aleppo by 
Russell, which has a streaked flower much like that of stellaris, 
cannot t uch a plant is to be found near Aleppo, or any- 
where except in gardens; and there may be some error as to the 
specimen.” Mr » when preparing his h 
Pp ge on 
Crocus, labelled Russell’s specimen ‘probably “eb the striped 
form of vitellinus ” Wahl. (syriacus Boiss. & Gaill.). 
CRUSEA HISPIDA. 
This is the correct name for the plant usually known as 
C. rubra Bartl., as appears from the synonymy quoted by him in 
Linnea, xiv. litt. 125. bs is the Spermacoce strigosa of Herb. 
Banks and the Cruciane a seg of Philip Miller, both names 
being cited by Sims (Bot ag. t. 1558), who adopts the former 
name for the species. he figure i is said to have been made from 
specimens raised at Fraser’s nursery from seeds brought by him 
from Cuba, but the plant does not appear to be West Indian. The 
rang tle phrase cited by Sims from Houstoun’s MSS. was sent 
o Mi oustoun with his specimen from Vera Cruz, to 
Which Miller (who cites it in his Dictionary) attached it in his 
herbarium, adding the word “hirsutis”; this is the specimen 
referred to by 
JournaL or Borany,—Vow. 53. ([Sepremper, 1915.) x 
