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across a i collected in bud at Killarney, on June 28th, 1902, 
essr . W. Seull - A. Shoolbred, and myself, and 
~referred x ‘the time to E. media Bab. (Fries, pro parte ?). The 
agreed so well with the figure and description of H. atroviridis 
in the Flora of Derbyshire, p. 270 (1903), that I wrote to Mr. 
poy. who happened to be on the spot, and on August 27th he sent 
e good fresh material, some of it still in full flower. ‘It is locally 
plenifal on limestone. dried specimen was sent to Rev. EH. F. 
Linton, who replied :—‘‘ The Killarney plant appears to agree well 
with EH. atroviridis W. your description of a flowers, 
R. L. by 
and by the gradually lessening size and narrowing of the leaves 
upwards. How about your Ardskinid, Tongue Bay, plant of 
tinged with pink’? It looks like ovalis ; but with those flowers 
(and gradually decreasing narrowing lea aves) co should be atro- 
viridis. Not latifolia!” On examining my 1900 from the 
same station (108 W. Menai serena on pein 3rd, 1897, 
I find that it is just like the e Doward, 36 Hereford, £. 
ovalis Bab. (pro minori “es sii last April, Rev. Ley 
and I agreed was an exact match with authentic atroviridis. In 
Bot. Exch. Club Report for 1898, Mr. Arthur Bennett expressed 
his agreement with Rev. W. H. Purchas that the Little Doward 
Hill specimens were not EH. atrorubens. In 1907, W. R. 
Linton informed me that the Matlock “ atrorubens”’ was really his 
sage eee adding that the figure of the latter in his Flora was 
too coarsely drawn. This is clearly the case; the flowers, in par- 
Gana are represented as a fad deal larger than in any examples 
which I have seen. It follows that the Tongue Bay Z£. atro- 
rubens X latifolia has only latifolia as “32 parent ina sectohene 
aggregate sense; it may more correctly be named Helleborine 
atrorubens x atroviridis. a ‘tw ot cies are strikingly dif- 
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case the rhizome was horizontal. Besides the leaf-characters, 
H. atroviridis differs on 0. latifolia in the basal bunches of 
the labellum being plicate; it is broader than long, with a sub- 
recurved tip, whereas the labellum of E. media Bab. is described 
as being longer than broad.—E. 9. M 
OvuTLAWED Generic Names.—The stip of Dr. Janchen 
greatly to amplify the list of generic names, sought by the Vienna 
Botanical Congress to place beyond the pale of the law of saeattat 
is interesting as indicating to what lengths the abandonment 
principle may readily go when once anor at and what a de 
of chaos is likely to ensue Mois very long unless this arbitrary 
method is rejected and a return made to the andi LS aren by 
priority of publication, sagt Fae by the designation of type 
species. We already begin to see evidences beg a recogiition - 
the necessity for the method by types both as to species and as 
genera, and authorities who have had no clear conception of it 
