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L. — Lomaria pond Soa vere only near Presteign, 43.— 
Asplenium Trichomanes L,— uta-Muraria L.— Athyrium Filia- 
femina Roth. oP Gigteichacm reales Presl, b. a Syme. 
Hay Hill; Yrfon Valley. — P. angulare Presl. 43. Presteign.— 
Lastrea Oreopteris Presl. 42. Yrfon Valley, near Builth, Ley !|— 
L. Filiz-mas Presl. — L. dilatata Presl. 438. Near Presteign.— 
Polypodium vulgare Li. (42). 
Eiquisetum arvense wee 
AN ACCOUNT OF VELEZIA. 
By Freperic N. Wuuams, F.L.§S. 
Wuen Caspar Bauhin was forming his herbarium, he bieoe e 
specimens from most of the herbalists of his time. In a parcel of 
plants sent him by Joachim Burser, probably in the first EPP of 
the seventeenth on ry, were specimens of a plant gathered by 
him near Florence, which he labelled “« an nica He 
mended Caspar enh to compare his plant with other iiseiinens 
of the group of “ Tunici,” which was a name first applied to 
Caryophyllaceous plants by Manfredus de Monte Imperiale, who 
herborized about 1420. These specimens are in Bauhin’s her- 
“ Lychnis sylvestris minima exiguo flore: ex radicula oblonga, 
tenui, cauliculus niger rufescens, geniculatus, trium quatuorve 
unciarum, in alas nimas brachiatus exurgit, foliolis binis 
exiguis, acutis, ad querilibet geniculum et alam, et ex qualibet 
ala,. pedicelli oon Bots, ated er re 8 flosculus a 
appellabant. Verum ante quadriennium eandem, sed palmum 
superantem, et Florentie ad agrorum margines natam, Tunice 
iaris nomine, a D. Bursero accepimus.” The plant is next 
ne 
n Bauhin’s Historia Plantarum A conta n iii. p. 352 
(isi), ee plant is again described, and for the first time figured 
from specimens collected by Cherler at Nimes, in Languedoc. The 
prige: pears of these French specimens is as follows :—“ Rigidula 
est planta, dutim triimve unciarum altitudine, raro palmum attin- 
git, coliculis duris, rigidis, ramosis; folia ad nodos bina ex 
adverso pet, semiuneia breviora, perangusta, pilosa, é AR og 
alis yces semiunciales, bimuli, perquam ua- 
biles, hirti at preber é quorum apice flosculns prosilit, quem pre 
