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correct. This is evidently not the case, and it may be well to put 
the facts on record. 
n prima facie grounds, it was by no means unreasonable to 
suppose that Michele Trivoli Pieri was the author. e had pre- 
viously published two works on Corfu plants: ‘Della Corcirese 
Flora, centurie prima, seconda, e terza, ossia storia di piante 
folio publication—in 1814, a ‘Flora Corcirensis 
centuriz prima et secunda sive enumeratio ducentarum plantarum 
quas in insula Corcire inveni 1, Fieri,” % i’s name 
does not appear in the list of authorities given in the Flora Corcirese, 
and this, coupled with his previous writings on the subject, has no 
doubt produced the impression that he was the author of this third 
ac ; : 
Pieri,” &e. (Ion. Anthol. i. 958). (2) The subsequent remarks of 
the author :— “Tl Symphytum officinale riferito dal Pieri . . . non 
esiste nell’ isola per quanto consta all’ autore, che lo ha inutilmente 
ricercato su tutta la sua superficie” (J. c. ii. 186); and ‘“I’autore 
ne ha trovato un solo esemplare il di 26 Aprile, 1884... . . a 
riprodotto fiori simili al tipo in quest’ anno 1835” (l. c. 190), Pieri’s 
death having been already referred to (see above) in 1884. (3) The 
reference by H. Margot and F. G. Reuter in their “Essai d’une 
Flore de Vile de Zante” (Mém. Soc. Phys. Geneve, viii. 251 (1839) ):— 
Cette flore est anonyme, et n’a pas été achevée, vu que l’Antho- 
logie a cessé de paraitre”: these authors cite it throughout as 
“Fl. anon.” 
what surprised to find included in Mr. Jackson’s Index such names 
5 deed pubescens and B. leptostachys, which stand thus in the 
“3B, Leptostachys. E una varictd del precedente [sqguarrosus] , 
se 
con cui nasce. 
B. pubescens. Altra varietd dello stesso a Spighe pelose.”” 
Aphanes: monogyna, also included by Mr. Jackson, is defined as 
Varieta della precedento [arvensis] con un solo pistillo”: and it is 
i @ P gg ci the “N.” or “Nob.’’ which the author says he has 
xed to his new species is absent from the names of these varieties. 
