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OUR ENDEMIC LIST. 
By Wittum H. Bessy. 
as to whether or not the seventy-five forms are endemic being 
afterwards treated of in asummary, from which we learn that Sir J. 
Hooker would exclude fifty-five of the seventy-five forms from the 
endemic list, for ‘‘ various reasons.” 
Before proceeding further, I desire to acknowledge fully that it 
is a far more difficult matter to draw up such a list as Mr. Bennett 
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of the plants named in Mr. Bennett’s list are made wi s 
j Some of the plants remarked upon below are 
Caltha radicans Forst.— From my experience of this and 
kindred forms, I should feel it very rash to assert that it is endemic. 
My reasons for taking this view are contained in previous papers, 
and need not be repeated here. 
Brassica monensis Huds. — The form of B. Cheiranthus men- 
tioned by Lloyd (Fl. de U Ouest, ed. x. p. 24) should be compared 
with this; until the result of such a comparison is published, one 
would hardly feel disposed to accept B. monensis as endemic. 
Diplotaxis muralis DC. var. Babingtonii.—Both biennial and 
perennial forms occur in France. Apparently endemic in name 
on] 
y- 
Viola lutea Huds. var. amena.—The varieties given by Koch 
ge, 
differs from the type chiefly in its purplish copper-coloured foliage, 
the character is retained to a very considerable extent in culti- 
