NOTES ON XYRIS. 499 
Smith, the excellent type specimens of which are in Linneus’ 
herbarium in the Linnean Society’s rooms in London. It is not 
by Britt ton & Bice. n’s roe 893 , and is identical with Clayton’s 
Virginian plant cited by Gronovius, and apparently with Banister’s 
Virginian plant cited by Plukenet (Almag. 170)—Gladiolus luteus 
tripetalos, ts plurimis minimis, ex uno capitulo squamoso erum- 
pentibus. Whether, in view of the uncertainty as to the identity 
of Muhlenberg’s plant, his name, which is five years earlier than 
X. torta, can be set aside, may be matter for discussion ; in any 
case, Smith’s name cannot be dissociated from the plant in 
question. The very well-marked specie generally known as X. 
torta Sm. is said by Ries (l.c. p. 41) to be ica has ig s with a 
Cuban species, X. conocephala Sauv. FI. Cub, ae 68). I have 
the mainland species, as pointed out ee Nash (Bull. Torr. Club, 
Xxli. 159), and indicated also by Rugel on the ticket with a F lorida 
sa The following gives the synonymy of the two species :— 
xX FLExuosA Muhl. Cat. Pl. Am. Sept. 5 (1813), nomen die 
saa ; Gray, Man. Bot. 518 (1848), sub X. bulbosa; Chapm. FI. 
Bae v, Lis ese (1860) ; Grey, Man. Bot. ed. 5, 548 ( (1868) ; Ries 
. Club, xix. 87 (1892); ee & Brown, Ill. Fi. 
1. Bor. 
X., foliis gladiatis Gron. Virg. 11 (1743). 
X. indica L. Sp. Pl. 42 GI5%) in part; Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 
33 (1814); Nutt. Gen. i. 30 (18 
AX. torta Sm. in Rees’ Giae.: xxxix. no. 11 (1818). 
X. bulbosa Kunth, Enum. iy. 11 (18438); Gray, Man. Bot. 518 
aie 
. X. conocerHaLa Sauv. Fl. Cub. 159 (1868). 
x. torta Kunth, Enum. iv. 14, and Auct., non Sm 
We have in the Department of Botany what is sale the 
earliest specimen extant of this species, in the herbarium of Carolina 
plants made by William Young in 1767.* 
II. Notes on AustRaLiAN SpEcIEs. 
The majority of the types of the species endemic to Australia 
are to be found among Robert Brown’s plants, the value of which 
does not always seem to have been exhausted in the account of the 
order in the Flora Australiensis. As Nilsson, moreover, Posie 
material in the National Herbarium and at Kew. I have cited 
under each species only specimens which I have seen. 
* See Journ. Bot. 1894, 332-7. 
