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Dickinson, has not been found since his time. The label is in the 
hand of Petiver, to whom Dickinson sent his plants and from 
whom Plukenet received it; and the specimen—which was 
strangely overlooked when the rest of the Bermudan plants were 
identified (Journ. Bot. /.c.)—is associated with these in Herb. 
Sloane. It may be noted that in the copy of Ray’s Historia 
which serves as an index to the Sloane Herbarium, Dryander has 
written “ Galiwm bermudense L.” and a reference to H. 8S. 32 f. 82 
against the description cited from Plukenet; thus showing that 
he differentiated it from the Gronovian plant which he name 
G. pilosum 
— 
The question as to the disposition of the name G. bermudense 
L. remains for consideration. It can hardly be said to “ embrace 
elements altogether incoherent” nor can it be “a permanent 
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arisen in the past has been removed by the dinpinidiatiots of 
authentic material. If retained, as I think it must be, for one of 
the two plants included under it, the question is—which ? for the 
brief diagnosis might include both. 
inappropriateness of applying the name bermudense t lant 
which does n 
dbo 
the West Indies, from which it was described later by Linneus (as 
Valantia hypocarpa 
I therefore propose the following readjustment of nomen- 
clature :— 
RELBUNIUM BERMUDENSE comb. noy. 
Galium bermudense L. Sp. Pl. i. 105 (1753) excl. syn. Gronov. 
. hoe ocality. 
alantia hypocarpa I. Pug. Jamaic. 30, n. 24 (1759): Syst 
Nat. ed. 10, 1807 (hypocarpia) (1759). "1+ Syst 
Rubia hypocarpia DC. Prodr. iy. 591 (1830). . 
Galium hypocarpium Grisebach Fl. Br. W. Ind. 351 (1861). 
Susi Hemsley Bot. Biol. Centr. Amer. ii. 
re . . e . 
ety hari Aiton Hort. — 1. 145 (1789) ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 
G. bermudense L. Sp. Pl. 105 quoad pl. G 
G. puncticuloswm B pilosum DO. Prod, iv. 601 (1830), 
