130 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
NOTES ON SYNONYMY IN JUZMUS. 
By tHe Rev. Auaustin Ley. 
connection with my paper in the March number of the 
Journal, the Editor kindly allows me space for the following 
Notes :— 
U. scabra Miller. This is stated by Giirke to be the U. cam- 
pestris of the Linnean Sag aE British authors, on the 
other hand, have me aa so far a I know, maintained that the 
plant of Linn. herb. is the “common” not the “ Wych” Elm 
Without attempting * settle between these two views, the 
question whether Linneus’ name can be rightly used, and, if 
the type ; 
Mus., and the figures in Eng. Bot. (referred to also by 
Lindley), t. 1886 (campestris) and t. 2248 ate Pata beyond 
question that both these names describe p. falling under 
grega . gla 
points to continuing the use of Linneus’ name campestris for 
the “small-leaved”’ Elm of Britain and the Continent; placing 
U. glabra Miller under it as a variety, if valid varietal dis- 
tinctions can be pointed soe or relegating it to we list of 
synonyms. The writer, however—in view of the fact that 
Linneus recognised only a ziripte European species, and that 
coc: of the highest standing do not agree as to which this 
es is; considering, moreover, the possibility that Linnzus’ 
Him (excluding U. vegeta as possibly a hybrid form, and U. surcu- 
losa as endemic to Britain) may have been either U. glabra Miller 
or U. major Smith—has thought it best to drop the Linnean 
Perris and to use that to which no doubt attaches, U. glabra 
Mi 
may be worth while to quote Miller’s, se se and 
Lindley’ s descriptions of U. ee somewhat in ex 
‘“Ulmus « campestris foliis oblongis acuminatis aenteoa 
serratis, bast imequalibus. Elm with oblong acute poin 
1481. The common rough or broad-leaved Wych Elm Very 
common in oe north-west scihlien of England, where it is 
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The flowers are succeeded i oval-bordered aps ‘ontining 
one roundish compressed seed which opens in May.” — 
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— and of Miller’s reference to Gerard’s ne be ps do not 
