NOTES ON ABBOT’S HERBARIUM, 67 
To the P. variifolius of Thore the British lanceolatus bears only a 
very superficial resemblance. 
anormitanus of Bivoni, mentioned by Prof. Babington 
(Journ. Bot., 1881, p. 11), is a variety of pusillus with longer flaccid 
el than the type, the upper leaves spathulate, and otis ving nearly 
the same chain-like network as lanceolatus possess British 
ance A Sbgeatrarenre: ae C. Bailey), which stinthh | Bivoni’s 
lant e 
3 I se | iat from the United States (which I owe to the 
Se i of the eagre 7 Dr. Robbins’s Herbarium, the Rey. 
ng, of Mas A.), very like our plant at first sight, 
ray’s ‘ Manual ’), and marked by him “ gramineus 
t 
fruit has been found. ries says* :—‘‘ Pedunculi elongata, sat 
ati chao an Spica densiflora, elongata, c ce (nec ellip- 
: : h 
ton placed na the side of one of Fries’s plan nts was aiid 
guishable under a low power, our British plant differing from 
me by the beautiful structure of its leaves. bn one of the sheets 
of specimens at Kew is written in pencil “ P. diversifolius non 
differt.”’ 
should be glad of information on this point, Fos frag ally as to 
“« P. diversifolius, Schl.” which I am ‘canbe to trace. Chamisso, 
in ‘ Linnea,’ vol. ii. (1827), p. 233, says of our p ma :—** P, lanceo- 
latum, E. B., t. 1985, est P. lanceolatus, species recognoscenda.” 
SCRIPTION OF cine 217.—1. Specimen from Burwell Fen oe nat. del.) 
ey Upper leaf. b. Portion of a to show the structure. c. Submerged leaf. 
d, Section of stem. rs Ovary (very ane. f. Sepal (d, b, f, e. aaguls ed), 
2. Specimen from Wal 
NOTES ON THE HERBARIUM OF ABBOT, 
WITH REMARKS ON THE SYNONYMY OF SOME OF THE SPECIES 
By R. A. Pryor, B.A., F.L.8. 
(Concluded from p. 46.) 
Geranium sanguineum. Correctl y named (see p. 849 of Flora). 
There is a specimen of G. ponindsfabine, which has since been 
found in the county ; another —— of G. nodosum is possibly 
from Abbot’ 1 locality at Welwyn. 
G, posdines “dass per ee in the Flora, parviflorum, correctly 
ed. 
Polygala vulgaris, The genuine plant 
There pa te ae re ge of both species of Ononis 
* Mantissa iii,, p. 17, 181; Summa, p. 214, 
