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(a) vulgaris 
(b) microphylla 
(c) dissitiflora 
the first name being of his own invention. By this method 
S. minuta would be reduced to an abstraction, or to a synonym * 
S. minuta var. vulgaris, following the example of Dr. 
writes “fi. hpdrolapathum var. —— nobis: R&. hateolacatnehe 
Trimen in Journ. Bot. xii. 35 (187 
From the standpoint of pal of local lists, there is some- 
thing to be said for the citation of the abstract species, on the 
ed. 
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citation of the abstract name in a list published in 1920 pre- 
supposes the no of this, whereas by the citation of the 
specific name as usually understood, var. # would be inferentially 
excluded. On ehe 8 ther hand, the monogr eee having full 
material before him, ward accept the original description as the 
type of the species; ‘‘the names of subspecies and ee would,” 
as Art. 28 expresses it, ‘follow ey in order.” On oss's 
plan, the type would be described a “(a)” or as “var. vu iigaris” 
and it appears to vat that this pastiaalty amounts to the adoption 
Moss can cite numerous Continental scans he and that iB has 
to some extent been anticipated by Syme in English Botany. 
oe  prominene given to it in The Cambridge British Flora, 
importance of that work, seem to me to call for the 
protect "whiali I have ventured to make. Janus Barveun. 
SHORT NOTES. 
AGRIMONIA opoRaTA (p. 280).—Mr. Thompson omits to men- 
tion characters referred to by Archer Briggs (Flora of Plymouth, 
en who points out that ‘‘ even when out of flower and fruit, its 
e odour serves to distinguish it from the common species 
hairs on both leaves and stem, causing tos foliage to look less 
sometimes havin ng the edges in incurved.” I have recently ex- 
amin ned a large number of dried specimens hers aidan’ and the 
