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NOTE ON ERIOCAULON. 
By James —_—— F.L.S. 
quent botanists. They are included neither in Steudel’s Nomenclator 
nor in the Index Kewensis ; nor does Kérnicke cite them in his 
nograph in Linnea, xxvii. 560-692 (1854). It seems desirable 
that these species s n0uld be brought into notice, as they involve 
National Regia ony there is no difficulty in placing the species in 
their proper positio 
mith Bets oat his descriptions by the following paragra aay 
‘The following 6 species we believe are hitherto entirely _ cript. 
They will probably appear, with others, more ects illustrated here- 
after from the pen of Mr. rown, when he ime to resume 
the study of this genus, of which we believe af has ascertained 
about 80 species. In the meantime, to secure his specific names 
and our own thus far, we shall attempt definitions of what we have 
determined from actual observation 
v4! be six ape four be Australian, Two are cited from 
Brown’s MSS., one from Sol r’s, and one is given without any 
ital and is ‘hag to be mantel to Smith himself. The date of 
this volume of Rees being December, 1809,* the publication here 
be cited as from the Cyclopedia. So far as E. geen is con- 
pressu 
subsequently ae E. deustum. That this is so is evident from 
Brown’s ticket in the herbarium and from his MSS., as well as 
from Smith’s ee meee (where Brown has Poe it) and descrip- 
tion, and as a consequence the name must stand as K. pEpRessum 
Br. ex Sm. in Rees Cyclop. xiii. (1809), non ne Prodr. (1810), 
taking F. deustum as a synon E., depressum of Br. Prodr. would 
thus need a name, and would be called E. wererocynum F. Mue 
assuming that Dparsunt a c. 197) is right in considering this identi cal 
with Brown’s plant, as seems to be admitted by Mueller in his 
Census (ed. 2, p. 07). 
From the specimens and tickets in eh agora 2 ong we 
also learn the identity of HF. nigricans Br. the earlier E. pye- 
mMzum Soland., which of course must sr OL The. much later 
E. pygmeum of Kornicke (in Fl. Bras. iii. pt. 1, p. 477) may be 
called E. Kozrnicke1. 
* See Journ. Bot. 1896, 310. 
