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NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM.—II. 
By James Britten, F.L.S. 
(Continued from Journ. Bot. 1907, 316.) 
GALIUM BERMUDENSE LL. Sp. Pl. 105. 
Galium foliis quaternis linearibus obtusis, ramis ramosis- 
simis. 
“ Aparine foliis quaternis obtusis levibus. Gron. vir 
“ Rubia tetraphylla glabra, latiore folio, bermudensis, seminibus 
binis es eis. Pluk. alm. 324. t. 248 [f. 6] Raj. suppl. 261. 
“ Habitat in Virginia. 
The position of this species has always been somewhat of a 
puzzle, nor is this to be wondered at, seeing that comparison of 
authentic fama shows that re vey different plants were in- 
cluded by Linneu under the There are no specimens in 
Plukenet. It will be observed that the locality cited by Linneus 
htprar: to the former, while his trivial name is taken from the 
_ The Gronovian plant is certainly identical with G. pilosum 
Hort. Kew. i. 145); the specimen so written up by Dryander 
dulum Michx.; my only reason for mentioning this is that the 
entry in Hort. Kew. “Introd. 1778 by John Fothergill M.D.” refers 
to it, and the sheet is endorsed “ Hort. Fothergill, 1788” by Dry- 
ander. The identity of G. bermudense L. with G. pilosum Ait. is 
suggested by Britton & Brown (Illustr. Fl. N. ae ili. mic 
who rightly maintain Aiton’s name for the species, in contra 
distinction to previous writers, who have placed G. pilosum (1789) 
as a variety of G. puncticuloswm Michx. 3). 
The identification of Plukenet’s pe has presented greater 
difficulty, owing to the fact that up till now the specimen does not 
seem to have been consult Soarieny “Of course had only the 
figure in Phytographia before him with the brief diagnosis in the 
Almagestwm, and Mr. Hemsley (Bot. Challenger, Bermudas 39) 
refers to American identifications _ ‘says “ i is doubtful what 
Peosnccrn s plant really is.” But inspection of the fare 
Bermudan specimen in mt =o 32 f. 82 shows it to be 
Relbunium hypocarprum, which was collected in the Pecctne by 
Lefroy and Moseley ; in ‘this identification Mr. Hemsley concurs. 
The specimen is doubtless one of those collected in 1699 by John 
Dickinson, whose Bermudan plants form the main subject of a 
aper by Mr. Hemsley in this oy Sod it 1883, BP: 257, 261; 
Carex bermudiana, there described f specimen collected by 
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