68 NOTES ON ABBOT’S HERBARIUM. 
sepia’ to the same sheet, and = aes representing the 
and ‘“ sae * of the Flor A question may be 
eae as to the proper names of ‘hess — plants. In the 
third edition of the * Species Plantarum’ (p. 1006) Linneus er 
ond o h un 
een intended to ibaa = “‘ arvensis’? so general in inland 
situations. The other species, O. spinosa, with its primary variety 
itis, is characterised, strangely enough considering the specific 
ame, by rami inermibus This has been almost universally 
spines can hardly be said to spring immediatel age ae stem, 
and is suggestive rather of the figure of Blackwell. It seems clear, 
then, that either Linneus was unacquainted with the chavs 
of the two species as now generally understood, or that he has con- 
fused them both under the = mentioned variety. a the 12th 
edition of the ‘ Systema Nature’ (vol. xii., p. 478), he has again 
O. campestris, Koch. & Ziz., correctly and generally ad H 
second species, O. inermis, includes two varieties, the first being the 
me. 
yrus latifolius. Certainly L. sylvestris, L. The only speci- 
men of T. “‘ latifolius’’ in Sowerby’s Herbarium is also, 1 think, 
poner agen sylvestris. The very narrowly-winged petioles and small 
stipules, and general appearance of the flowers, is quite unlike those 
of taiji The lab abel - sasha ge and Bioman, Bedford, Sowerby 
” copie werby’s note on the o al drawing for 
E. B, 1108, which is of course latifolius, and ered in ioe, 
