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Hibernica by a setting-out of all the evidence on which our judgments 
are base 
It would almost seem from the tenor of Mr. Marshall’s “ Re- 
marks,” when treating of Geranium columbinum, Lotus tenuis, and 
inte fetidissima, that the writer had fallen into the grave error of 
ing the words “wild” and“ native” as synonymous. This, 
a good deal looser, we would venture to suggest, than any we our- 
selves may have been guilty of in dealing with such a pre-eminently 
loose subject as the Batrachian Ranunculi. 
As for Orchis latifolia, had the evidence in Mr. ore ae 
session been in ours when preparing the Cybele MS., we should 
have unhesitatingly admitted the plant to the airs hi But, 
unfortunately, that evidence was not in our possession, and ssa 
evidence we had we then considered, and still consider, gridiron 
In the case of Brachypodium pinnatum, the report of its discovery red 
Mr. Phillips reached us barely in time to admit of its finding a place 
in the last sheet of the Appendix. Had it arrived a month earlier, 
we cone probably have placed it, with a dagger-mark, in the 
text 
ca Lapa we desire to say that the tone of Mr. Marshall’s 
commipets leaves nothing to be desired. Outs ae as they are, 
has already done good service in the cause of Irish botany. We 
trust that he will continue to give it the benefit of his critical 
knowledge, and that a closer acquaintance with our island flora may 
have the effect of converting him to our scepticism. 
ALSINE IN THE BRITISH FLORA. 
By W. P. Hmry, M.A., F.L.S. 
In the Journal of Botany for last year (p. 496) I showed that 
the genus Buda Adans. (1763) is not suitable for use, as in the last 
edition of the London Catalogue of British Plants, p. 12, n.71 (1895), 
to include the species which are we ll known to British botanists 
under the generic name of Spergularia or Lepigonum; for Buda 
| ne 
really belongs to Spe L. (1753), and this conclusion is con- 
firmed the to Adanson’s book Ww , on the 
Linnean genus is quoted as a synonym. It is now proposed to deal 
with the suggestion that Alsine L. (i753 ), an adaptation of an old 
classical name, sliould be retained for the British species, since. 
is Li. Pl. 
ed. 1, 272 (1753); it was in principle so treated by Reichenbach, 
Fl. Germ. Exenrs. 566 oe Linneus placed his genus in the 
class Pentandria Trigyni 
The four British achenent will then, with their principal synonymy, 
stand thus :— 
