238 ON BOBART’S GREEN SCROPHULARIA. 
ON BOBART’S GREEN SCROPHULARIA. 
By R. A. Pryor, B.A., F.L.S. 
REMARKABLE ose of ger ahi ieee by the green 
colour of its flowers, was t introduced to the notice of bota- 
nists by Bobart in the a edition of the ‘‘ Synopsis” of Ray. It 
is described in the following terms: 
“4, Serophularia ican: caulibus + folcs § floribus viridibus. D. Bo- 
bert. Figwort with green leaves and flowers. Found near Cumner 
Common. Figwort is called Brownwort, from its remarkable brown 
seg ves hath sani of brownness in it.” 
me plant was gathered afterwards es vce be ai yt but Ks 
sequi 
perhaps of a more shady situation. MS It has donee pra omitted 
from the writings of our modern des scriptive — ,|| and I do not 
know that it has been noticed by foreign author 
Latterly, however, and in’ publications af a less authoritative 
nature, it has been usual** to identify the plant of Bobart with S. 
_teast one county list. An examination - the original specimens 
will show that this determination is erroneo 
three examples garded as authentic. One, possi a 
pe amie anal pl rom Cumnor, is preserved in the herbarium of 
boistt ; a ee (placed there by Bobart himself . in _ of 
Morn Nn; an ir among | semi Tatopeah lan 
* R. Syn., ed. 2, p. 161 
+ Spec t., p. 91. He — **Tts leaves wi of a pale green, and the 
whole pnt is much hei than the common . 
a however. (Syn., ed. i., P. 515), caput the flowers of 9. nodosa as 
*‘raro ubique virentes,” and Borea u (Fl. du Cent., ed. 3, v. ii, p. 480) speaks 
* 
* identification was first, Tb in t, by 
the Tate Dr, Bromfield yg aerapieggrn te ve oad ol 
mn: out of the ‘*Syno ” re ae ‘a Cf. Ph: 
Gyre pom Oasy eon coma eve amid Papen 
mrt. (1827), has clearly precedence over 9. Ehrha arti, Stev. 
(1840). Dumorticr states (Opuscules, pp. 330" sqq.) that §. alata, Gilib., taken 
up in the Student's Flora, is merely a synon ym for 8, tavation, ey in its wider 
sense. It orth mentioning that 08M, 
Mlietiod bovwovies ac oh Be kolien ie an ie 
bor tea, In Mr, I. Carro’ va aes 
with the British Mas: ollection. The i pe Maro baal 
orthy. oe Cyb, Hib., p. 209, 
ted d ot the tehel of 
iption tered ag is probably only a continuation 
