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to a special christening of the issue which tended to keep out of sight 
the essential fact to be kept in view. For example, the hybrid Gewm, 
called intermedium by Ehrhart, a cross between the herb bennet and 
the water avens, appears as ‘ x urbanum, under ‘530, rivale Linn.’ 
Some species like Echinophora spinosa—supposed extinct—and 
Plantago argentea have been omitted from the new list altogether ; 
whilst, per contra, many new species, but mostly of doubtful in- 
digenity, have their line for the first time. Some of these are— 
Arabis alpina, Arenaria gothica, Lupinus perennts, Callitriche poly- 
morpha, Falcaria vulgaris, Cotula coronopifolia, Hieracium hyparc- 
ticum, Hieracium auratum, Hieracium maritimum, Gentiana baltica, 
Amaranthus Blitum (a, readmission), Potamogeton falcatus, Carex 
I hynchophysa, fFoa palustris, Festuca cao Chara denudata, 
and WVitella Nordstedtiana ; making 1,958 ‘species’ for Britain, as 
against 1,858 in the 8th a One still. marks the refusal of 
a place to the increasingly frequent Silene dichotoma, to the hardy, 
established and spreading Symphoricarpus and Cornus alba ; likewise 
Bunias and Plantago Lagopus and Lusula albida—strange, when 
Stachys annua and Amarantus Blitum can find a place, extremely 
rare as is one, and impermanent as is the other. 
festuca dumetorum still figures (as No. 1828), and like a convict 
apparently known as a number only, for no county-census is attached. 
Another anomaly is the reversion to the pre-Linnean tri-nomial 
designation of Lobel and other ancients: species 1182 reads Veronica 
Anagallis-aquatica L., although the author, in a paper in 1749, 
dropped the final specifical adjective. 
The blessed virgin’s milk thistle has changed its name—on the 
whole for the better. It is now Mariana Jactea of Hill—he was 
a not too esteemed herbalist, so it is to be hoped this fresh product 
in the eve of the century will keep better than other of his works. 
On a third reading the Violet family strikes me as being very 
judiciously arranged. The canina of our heaths and turf-moors 
becomes ertceforum of Schrader—a good name, as well as the 
earliest ; and the Widdy Bank plant, hitherto passing as arenaria 
(a bad name); has found a suitable title in rupestris of Schmidt. 
Carex stricta Good., No. 1681, has changed to C. Hudsonii 
Arthur Bennett. The name, I see, topples to its fall under criticism 
already. The plant which we know so well with webbed filamentous 
sheaths, in tufts that make little islands in the pools where the snipe 
loves to brood, alike in Yorkshire and Sweden, is the aespitosus of 
Hudson’s ‘Flora Anglica’; and, heretical as the word hereon seems, 
was in part the Linnzan plant which he knew better Wig who see 
with other eyes a century and more later.—F, A. Ler 
August 1895- Q 
