256 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
‘* Habitat in Virginia. 
“Folia radicalia in orbem digesta, pinnata ; foliolis — 
fere imbricatis, erm a at postico denticulo uno brev 
juxta basin. Caulis minus foliosus: foliis raris, seepius lineafibus 
integris, Habitus Dura pastori 
The Gronovian plant (Clayton ee 462) is in the National 
Herbarium, where it has been identified by Dr. Gray as Arabis 
Ludoviciana i and Plukenet’s Scar avidienthy represents the 
same species 
C. virginica Michx. F]. Bor. Am. ii. 29 (1808) appears to be 
quite different from the oo of Linneus, and has been named by 
Dr. Britton (l.¢.) C. aren 
The synonymy of the ear: is as follows :— 
ARABIS Micaotte Poiret, Encycl. Suppl. i. ened excl. syn. C, virginica 
; Trelease, Branner & den lle Rep. State Geologist 
Ark. for 1888, p. 165 (1891), etc. 
Cardamine virginica Li. Sp. Pl. 656 (1758), non Linn. herb. 
C. Ludoriciana Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 191 (1834). 
Arabis Ludoviciana C. % Meyer, Ind. Sem. Petr. ix. 60 (1848). 
Cardamine parviflora subsp. virginica 0. E, Schulz in Engl. 
si ahrb. xxxii. “st (quoad pl. Linn. 
1 Ne: 528, mentioned by Gronovius in n Fl, Virg. 100, and 
bearing the name Naiphuritie aquatile, is either Cardamine parviflora 
L. or a close ally. 
NOTE ON ERICA BRUNIADES L. 
By James Barrren, F.L.S. 
Ir is pleasant to announce the completion of the monograph of 
the genus Frica, which Messrs. Guthrie and Bolus have elaborated 
with c I n 
opportunity nee. not been taken for clearing up certain points of 
of type 
After the ieaeciption, the authors have the oa. note :—- 
** Plukenet seems to have first given this name (Almag. Bot. Mant. 
69, t. ed ig. 9, 1700), but Bentham sa the plant to E. villosa. 
As there may be some doubt about it, and as Plukenet was pre 
Lin rinesn, we have not cited the figure under either species ”’ (Fl. 
a Ls presi gt 
ge was Actig: 
be regretted that Mr. Bolus, eae a welcome visitor at the 
National Herbarium, should not have taken the very ~ trouble 
