200 CARDAMINE PRAtENSIS, L., AND ITS SEGREGATES. 



able — in herbaria at least — from uncommon forms met with in 

 Europe. Africa must now be added to the list, for Professor 

 Oliver, in his ' Flora of Tropical Africa,' has sunk^ ft obliqua, 

 Hochst. This form, of which I have seen good specimens from 

 Abyssinia, is an exaggerated, strong-growing pratensis, with long, 

 leafy steins — the cauline leaves being made up of numerous large 

 rounded leaflets — and rather more densely-flowered racemes. I 

 may say that the Kew specimens, though collected by Schimper 

 and bearing the same herbarium number, 1541, are not so extreme 

 as those at the British Museum. 



The synonymy of ft pratemis is rather lengthy, and probably, 

 when the genus is thoroughly monographed, the names of several 

 plants which are now given in books as good species will have to 

 be added to the list. 

 ft pratensis, L. 



ft granulosa, Allioni, Auct. ad Flor. Pedemont. 



ft dmtata, Schult. Observ. Bot. no. 9G8.; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 



iii. 36 ; Boreau, Flore du Centre, p. 43. . 

 ft sylvatica, Besser (non Link), Primitive Florae Galicieae, 



ii., 76. 

 ft buchthormensis, Willd. Herb, ex Stev. 

 ft stolonifera, Tausch. (non Scop.) 

 ft latifolia, Lej. Flore de Spa (non Vahl.) 

 ft Hayneana, Welw. Beich. Flora Germanica, 676. 

 ft paludosa, Knaf. Flora, xxix., 293. 

 ft obliqua, Hochst. in PL Schimper Abyss. ; Ach. Bichard, 



Voyage en Abyssinie, tome 4, p. 19. 

 ft Matthioli, Morett. Flora Italica, vii., 29. 

 ft palustris, Petermann. 

 ft granulosa, Schur. and ('. fontinalis, Schur. Verb, der 



Siebenburgischen Verein zu Hermannstadt, p. 60. 

 ft rivularis, Schur. Verh. der Siebenburgischen Verein 

 zu Hermannstadt, p. 61. Enumeratio Plant arum 

 Transilvanise, p. 49. 

 ft nasturtioides, Schur. Herb Transilv. (non Barneoud). 

 ft pseudopratensis, Schur. 



ft praticola, Jord. Diagnoses d'Especes Nouvelles ou 

 Meconnues, p. 128. 



ft herbicaga, Jord. Diagnoses, p. 129. 



ft ndicola, Jord. Diagnoses, p. 130. 



ft vulgaris, Philippi. Linmea, 1856, p. 665. 



ft grandijlora, Hallier. Bot. Zeit., 1866,. p. 209. 

 I have preferred giving these names under ft pratensis, instead 

 of attempting to classify them all under half a dozen, or even three, 

 of the best-defined forms. For example, ft palustris, of which 

 there are two sheets of type specimens at the British Museum, is a 

 different plant from ft dentata, under which it is placed as a 

 synonym by Nynian in his * Conspectus Florae Europae,' and ft 

 Matthioli, Moretti, of which I have seen several examples from 

 Italy, is certainly not quite identical with ft Uagncana, Welw. 

 For all ordinary purposes of critical British Botany, ft pratensis 



