ON SOME SPECIES OF CRACCA 13 
Hort. Cliff. there is a very full description drawn up from a plant 
raised from Virginian seeds, so that the synonym quoted from 
urmann, and belonging to an India plant, may be neglected. 
It will be noted that the reference to Hort. Cliff. is followed by an 
asterisk, which, in the preface to Sp. Pl. ed. 2, is thus explained : 
“ Deseriptiones * tantum in obscuris adhibere necessum fuit, eas- 
que sine ambagibus, ut obtinerem compendium tironibus gratum.”’ 
This sentence appears indeed in Sp. Pl. ed. 1, but the asterisk is 
iern in ote 
the *, and is confirmed by further examination of the references i - 
Pl. to which it is attached. Mr. Hiern writes :—*I hav 
examined the text of Galega spp. nn, 3-8, pp. 1062, 1063 in ed. i 
corresponding to Cracca spp., p. 752 in ed. i, and it appears to m 
that the * following the references there signifies that useful 
pee are to be found in the works thus referred to. The * 
follows the reference to Hort. Cliff. and four out of the five 
rofsrenoed o Fl. Zeyl.; d in each of these places useful 
a * to the six references to Ameen. Acad. 3, where the descriptions 
are useless; there is a * following the reference under Galega 
cinerea Li. Sp. 1, ed. 2, p. 1062, to Ameen. Acad. 5, where the 
a is u 
[3] M itehell’s plant has already been dealt with under [1]. 
4| We cannot speak positively about this plant, for the determi- 
nation of which no material appears to exist; so far as the de- 
racca virginiana of Sp. 
[5} The plant figured by Plukenet in his Almag pit a8 types 
of which are preserved in his herbarium aed rb. Peanonaerd i. f, 100, 
a name substituted i in Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1062, for the Cracca virginiana 
specimen in the Linnea n herbarium, written up in his own hand, 
undoubtedly represents the same species. This specimen he recei ived 
rom m, and on its authority it would seem that the locality 
“ Canada ”’ ‘and ot a ‘‘caulis in loco natali erectus est’’ were 
added in Sp. Pl. the original account in Nova Genera; the 
