NOMENCLATURE OF ‘LONDON CATALOGUE,’ 229 
REMARKS ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF THE EIGHTH 
EDITION OF THE ‘LONDON CATALOGUE.’ 
By B. Daypon Jackson, Sec. L.S. 
(Continued from p. 181.) 
407. Prunus spinosa L, Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 475. — The variety ae 
produces its flowers Be leaves together is usually quoted as 
var. coétanea, ‘‘ Wimm. et Grab. Fl. Siles. ed. 2, i. 10” (ised ae 
P. fruticans Weihe ey "Flora (1826), 748, but on the next 
page Weihe alludes to this in the following words :—‘ Es giebt 
zwar von Prunus spinosa auch eine Varietas. serotina, die okt mit 
den Blumen bis zum Ausbruch der Bonin verspatet. Aber diese 
Varietat scheint mir etwas krankhaftes zu haben; denn die Blumen 
used the terms Been serotina 
aL. 
are considered to be subspecies, they are correctly quo sad de as such 
P. communis Huds. ed. 2, 212, but in the ‘ poor Catalogue,’ 
where they are given specific rank, P. spinosa L. Sp. PB 1. [as above] 
should be given in preference to commun sk 
487. Potentilla maculata. — Numerous correspondents have 
pointed out the misprint of Power for Patra Hartmann, Handb. 
Skand. FI. ed. 11 889, ( 1879), cites P. verkan be Fi. age! ed. 2 
tio: 
on 
een the true plant and P. opaca and P. aurea, To retain an 
na 
vie to adopt Hartmann’s name. I giv eis principal synonyms 
487 in order, by which we ‘ial see that the two con- 
eamec names of Haenke and Pourret are su sete ee 
P. rubens Vill. Prosp. Fl. Dauph. 46 aE et in Fl. Daup 
566 (1789). P. eerulge 54 Haenke in Jacq. Coll. ii. 68 ie 
P. maculata Pourret in Mém. Acad. a on iii. (1788), 826. 
P. alpestris Hall. f. in Mab. Helv. i. (1823), ee ns losa Dalla 
(1769), » with the same plate as in former issue. 
ts regard our verna as P. minor Gilib. Exer. Bot. 362 (1792). | fe : 
