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vern Link, is quoted at ae by Mr. W. Mathews in the Midland 
Naturalist for 1892, p. 118. The writer adds, however, ‘In 
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representative of the genus was asin to the late Mr. Lees when 
he published his Botany of Malvern in 1868.—F Rreeman Roper, Jun, 
Pyroza sERoTiInA Mleq.—At p. 834 I remarked that I had not 
seen a specimen of P. serotina Mleq. Since then I have F ivage 
a sheet of ee from Béthune via de-Calais) in the 
Herbarium, and there seems no doubt that they are the same PA 
Lancashire plant, though they have larger leaves. Mr. A. Somer- 
ville Fie also kindly forwarded me specimens of P. minor from the 
sands of Ardeer, Ayrshire, gathered by Mr. J. Smith late in 
Ootober' thus they are pails in a condition for comparison, but, 
so far as they can be ared, they seem to be the same as 
an 
specimens I possess pore: Mestiatnay (hast Ee Islands) sent 
me by Drs. Focke and Buchenau. the or (Lantzius-Beninga) 
of the var. arenaria of minor relied eka on the smaller, but 
more rotund leaves, and the larger flowers. I find on the ordinary 
minor 1-4 bracts on the scapes, on the Ardeer plant 1-2 only, so 
that the plant does not seem to follow the var. of rotundifolia in 
producing a whee? number of bracts than the type. The Ardeer 
specimens are 84-54 in. high, the ordinary plant 6-12 in. high. 
The leaves are decidedly smaller, rounder, and the petioles shorter, 
the whole aaece a good deal like small specimens of 
Pse oe reprint in the Journ. Bot. p. 848, ht gi of Dr. 
Britton on Pseva as an “illustration of Dr. Fc Sig ol of 
working,” but you overlooked my notice to en, Pl. 
390, that I have not seen in this case the ost. see ea My 
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to reject a name. I hope 1s will carsect your mistake in the next 
number of your Journal.—Orro Kun 
I willingly insert Dr. Kuntze’s “iste, but it still appears to m 
that he is entirely responsible for the restitution of the genus, ea 
for the naming of the four species which he places in it. The 
ows: Pui Raf. (1809) Obs. ex 
l. ec. die Prioritit fiir seine schon 1809 ge egebene Benennung, 
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