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EHUPHRASIA MINIMA. 
By W. P. Hiern, M.A., F.B.S. 
- (PuaTE 4974.) 
Tue announcement of the discovery of the yellow- eyo 
epelihi rt in En ngland by Miss Helen Saunders (p. 30), and Mr 
C. E. Salmon’s further note (p. 74), reporting an earlier ghtlisdtiig 
‘and later recognition, are calculated to create among British 
Sotaaiets sufficient interest to justify some special information. 
t has now been recorded for four stations in West Somerset, 
_which renee between two and six and a half kilometres distant 
from the Devon boundary, and, as regards three of them, between 
366 and 427 m. in altitude. 
this paper, for convenience and simplicity, the plant is 
the Journal of cecal 1897, in the introduction to his fe oon 
raph of the British species 7 Euphrasia, after recasting that 
the geographical area of HZ. minima Jacq. is found within the area 
of the remotely allied EH. stricta Host, and that intermediate forms 
do exceptionally occur, he added: “The botanist is 
therefore forced to recognize that certain forms have become and 
are more or less stable, and to such an extent that they may gu 
treated as permanent enough “to constitute and be reckoned and 
described as species. 
. On the other hand, P. Bubani, who died in 1888, and whose 
posthumous flora Pyrenea was edited by Prof. O. Penzig, ad- 
mitted only one aN and with reference - ~ forms of Kye- 
bright, vol. i. p. 272 (1897), wrote: ‘“ Mont . plures alunt 
formas, quae speci polimorphiam mihi ma a4 acaiee demon- 
strarunt ita ut a propositis neotericorum speciebus abhorream, 
Natura, non phantasia, monente.” 
n opinion has. been expressed in favour of the strong proba- 
= yom E. minima is the type of E. officinalis L 
British forms the yellow — throughout the corolla 
ae net ge under notice is unique, and this. character has been 
anit among Continental forms for. more than three hundred 
years, and more than two agape ago by some authors specific 
rank has been conceded to 
In British floras, until Gaet s posthumous — of Bab- 
ington’s Manual of 1904, only one species of Huphrasia has 
admitted. In that litions however, thirteen species are enume- 
