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SALVIA HORMINOIDES Povurrer. 
In this Journal for 1908, pp. 97-106, 141-151, Mr. Pugsley, in 
a lengthy and interesting paper, gives the history and definitions of 
Salvia Verbenaca, and the plants which have been grouped in that 
aggregate species. With two of his conclusions I cannot entirely 
concur, and I should like British botanists, before forming a defi- 
nite opinion, to consult the excellent materials in the National 
Herbarium. I speak ogmatic spirit ; and it may be that 
what I consider points in varietal or specific distinction may not 
from Pourret is preserved in the National Herbarium. This 
specimen agrees with his description quoted by Mr. Pugsley from 
Mem. Act. Acad. Toulouse, vol. iii. 327 (1788). But Pourret’s 
specimen differs from our ritish plant; the leaves, which are 
longer and narrower than in ours, have their base (except in one 
case) cuneate, are long-stalked, and of a smoother texture. Our 
and our plant, with its very wide range of variation, possesses a 
distinct facies. Hence, before adopting the name S. horminoides 
S. horminoides as suggested by Mr. Pugsley, nor do I think 
plate of Gallitrichwm anglicum Jord. & Fourr. (Icones Fl. Europ. 
ii. t. 263, f. 345) represents it. 
A plant from Whitchurch, Oxon, approaches Pourret’s plant 
in haying some of its leaves cuneate, and the British specimen of 
Gallitrichum rubellum (Jord. & Fourr. t. 265, f. 347) gathered b 
the late Mr. G. Nicholson at Kew (see Journ. 879, 344), 
which he showed me in the fresh state, also suggest a resem- 
blance to horminoides. This in Herb. Brit. Mus. is represented by 
