86 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
** The Rey. W. W. Newbould informs me he has seen, in Mr. Borrer’s 
herbarium, a specimen of Mr. Griffith’s plant, but it is not P. vir- 
ginica.” Mr. Hemsley has kindly looked this up for me, and writes, 
‘‘The Pulmonaria in herb. Borrer. is P. angustifolia—‘ Whitefield 
Wood, n*. Brading, m3 18388 ’—all in Borrer’s handwriting. In 
the General Herbarium is a specimen of the same species from the 
same locality from Bromfield; Griffith does not appear.’ It would 
seem, therefore, that none of the s pecimens attributed to Griffith 
were ‘really sisihal by him, and that his identification of the ser 
—_ he saw in the woods with P. virginica was erron Ther 
t Kew a specimen of P. vir ginica from the Netley locality, ek 
‘ecfodein in 1799. 
nother example of a matter which might have been decided 
occurs on the s same ‘page 0 of the Flora, where, under Cynoglossum 
haere we read: ‘ Obs. There is a ‘C. “pares te om oe 
at Kew ? 
ria. 
The page from which we are bien (p. 825) also affords a 
example of inaccurate citation: ‘‘ Mer maritima Don has baa 
seen as ‘a casual’ on the half dry beach at Netley (Phyt. n. s. ii. 
545) and hardly ee notice here.’ The passa e referred to 
We are faokined to 9 thin re that ¢ too much reliance has been placed 
on Mr. C. B. Clarke’s Andover list, published in 1866, which supplied 
the text for an amusing if ra her cruel review by H. C. Watson in 
attached a r name, ‘Ass: misprint 
** Anise,”’ which, however, has no connectio th the t—this 
and other slips, such as ‘ Parsley ” for ** Water Drop- 
wort,’’ are carried on from the first edition); but Gnaphalium luteo- 
album, which Mr. Clarke only doubtfully de from a solitary 
specimen, is retained, although Mr. Clarke’s doubt is duly stated 
Mr. Townsend notes his f that Clarke considers G. pilula 
es s 
_ It will be seen from what has been said i thatthe n of 
the Flora of Hampshire is not above criticism : ; itis, fepenriens an in- 
teresting and important en to the knowledge of our island 
botany, and may take rank with the best examples of its class. 
