156 SHORT NOTES. 
is clearly older than Wormskiold’s 4. hirta in Fl. Dan. t. 1646 
1819). Mr. Roper has taken the date of the ‘first — = 
instead = the volume which had the name in — 
mary ei Spergularia um Was p 
lished by Price | in his 8 ‘ Flora Halon, ee 76 (1818), Pa 
species being name the next year (1819) the brothers Presl 
published Spun as a genus in their ‘ Fora Cechiea,’ p. 94. 
(rubra, media, canadensis, purpurea) aut Spergulis ... . associanda, 
aut sub peculiari genera... .ab Arenariis separa ande, cum quibus 
seriem dead naturalem efficiunt,’’ yet Persoon, it is evident, did not . 
pr i f eric rank ; uu 
laytonia perfoliata Donn, Hort. Cantab. 25 (1796).— 
Strictly speaking, a naked name, but so distinctive that it may be 
considered truly Be ore if a fuller description be wanted, refer 
to Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1186. The figure in Bot. Mag. t. 1336, did not 
appear till Roper 1810 
255. Montia a fontana Linn. —o and f. erecta, both of de 
Syn. i. 111 (1805).—Mr. Druce poate Ste that these varietal name 
must supersede C. C. Gmelin’s specific names, reduced to aetal: 
a co minor and M., rivularis, Fl. Bad. i. 301, 302 respectively 
(To be continued.) 
SHORT NOTES. 
HE Posrtion or tun Rap Enpopesmia, — Hypericacee 
being Stinbad on the oknes of Guttifere, Ternstremiacee 
n Fan 
to learn the position of the raphe in Hndodesmia, the only genus 
laving a single pendulous anatropal ovule. Having obtained a 
branchlet of five flowers from the Kew Herbarium, from the 
—— collected by Mr. Mann in Africa, there being but one 
ies, EH’, calophylloides, it was found, after careful Scouts 
that it is dorsal, the rather large foramen being close up under the 
funiculus. erie, f in 
with the raphe dorsal) and also Ranunculaceae. It being the only 
genus of the order which has a single carpel, it ma y be interesting - 
to add that the single carpel of f which the ovary is composed was 
agrees with the Guttifere and Dipterocarpea, in which its eae is 
epee but perhaps more frequently anterior than pos 
LARKE, 
