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ON ERYTHRAA CAPITATA, Wri. 
By Frepericx Townsenp, M.A., F.L.8. 
Since my notice in this Journal for November, 1879, of a 
remarkable Mrythrea a the neighbourhood of Freshwater, in 
the Isle of Wight, I have had the opportunity of comparing it 
with an aiithentic spocinntl of Erythrea capitata, an 
have lately stated, in a more extended notice read before the 
conclusion that Willdenow’s plant and that from the Isle of 
Wight form two varieties of the same species, with the following 
dharpoters, I defer heading the varieties with a specific character, 
in the hope that future opportunities ed enable me to draw up a 
adie perfect one than I could now giv 
BE. carrrata, Willd., var. a. spherocephala.—Caule (3-8 p 
plerumque simplici et solitario erecto subangulato, foliis edie 
, calyce corolle qualii, filamentis in imo tubi corolle 
‘insertis, stylo obliquo, quadranti parte ovarii sub anthesid 
— capsula calycem excedente. (1) vel (2). In pascuis 
apri 
On. the covey of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, and Newhaven, 
Sussex. Sacer gear ne 
Caul eae in su ri parte ramum nudiusculum unum 
ittet. 
per 
* awe capitulo ‘efannieal emi 
Var. 3. Willdenowiana. Bracteis acutis, 
pan calycis angustioribus, | Taciniis a omalie  abiuaibie et acu- 
tioribus. ‘Latet locus natalis.’ 
The — Pegg om of E. capitata is the following, given 
by Chamisso :—“ Erythrea capitata, foliis elliptico- -lanceolatis 
Pd ismaps evolinesscnt,’ p. 9 a 315). The longer description given 
mer and Schultes’s ‘Syst. Veg.’ was pro nit written by ov 
dies. Schlechtendahl, who took care of his friend Willdeno 
herbarium, = sent many notes to Schultes on “Reliquie 
Willdenowian 
The true “R. eager Willd., is wanting in Willdenow’s 
herbarium, and the only specimens preserved are the 
“Herbarium Generale” at + Be rii 
Since Willdenow’s time the plant has not been found, and it 
appears that a capitate form of E. Centaurium, Pers., has s been taken 
for EL. capitata, Willd., and is described in Floras as E. Centauriwm 
