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p. 362 (1756), gave and described Prunella. On the other hand, it 
should in fairness be disclosed that Philip Miller, in the fourth 
, 
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seems appropriate: ‘‘The liberty of making orthographic corree- 
tions must be used with reserve, especially if the change affects 
the first syllable, and above all the first letter, of a name. 
In Primulacee Mr. Williams has paid great attention to the 
differences to be found among the field Pimpernels, of which he 
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towards the apex slightly ascending, and the third has erect 
stems. In A. arvensis the colour of the sons is mostly scarlet 
A. femina the corolla is blue with the lobes oblong, narrowed 
towards the apex, and denticulate or irregularly serrulate along 
fim 
ns Continental botanists rene the plant with flesh-coloured 
flowers, 4. carnea Schrank, as an hybrid. The few English plant- 
lists that mention it ‘aah it as a colour-variation of 4. arvensis 
.-. Those w gas the hybrid origin of A. carnea derive it 
fro arvensis and Aisticg cag of them ae plants 
Now 4. latifolia and A. carnea are erect in habit. It is contrary 
to Mendelian bier oe: that the blend of two procumbent plants 
should ae 5 I believe therefore that A. carnea is the hybrid 
4 roduct of A. arvensis and A. femina but of A, arvensis and 
ese 
has broader leaves than ei er A. arvensis or 
A. femina, vali not so broad as those of A. latifolia.” 
umbaginacee, the generic name Timonium i is regularly 
Thrift, which Mr. Williams calls Armerta maritima Willd. A. vul- 
garis var. reheat oes Syme, Engl. Bot. vii. p. 57, t. 1153 (1867) 
‘‘may be left out of consideration as altogether unsatisfactory. It 
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was Fasten and figured from a plant cultivated in Watson’s 
had the Se growing in its natural hom 
A. al, na Will, is Meare este for a plant tadae 
Tinoliak Lake District, N. Wales, the Scottish 
Hutens and Kerry. 
