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THE GENUS TELEPHIUM. 
By Freperic N. Wituiass, F.L.S. 
tists and Suntan of floras. In his fragmentary attempts at a 
Natural Method Linneus placed the genus in three different 
) 
included it in n . 60, Perforate (mispri rinted ‘‘n. 40”’ in the index), 
his Prelec 
with Cistus ; and in tiones in ordines aiciritts (ed. Giseke, 
1792), included it among the Holeracea, p. 806. Jussieu,* wi 
rare in a Telephium among the Portulacea, but after- 
g 
wards+ transferred it to the new order of Paronychiee. Endlicher} 
subsequently rightly reduced the group to a tribe of Caryophyllacea. 
Bentham and Hooker,§ however, somewhat obscured its affinities, 
by transferring the tribe of See tay to Illecebracea, at the same 
time excluding Telep me which they made a genus of the order 
and rantl,1 following En dlicher, once more transferred the genus 
proposed the genus as the type of a natural family Caragarcepoe's 
in which also he includes the genus Apeabir iola. Thename of 7 
phium was first wee by Dioscorides, | { about the year 60 a.D., ha 
applied by him the plant now kno own as Cerinthe major L. 
The Latin n dseiption is as follows :—“ Telephium est herba Portu- 
8, et et foliis: alas binas in singulis foliorum 
geniculis annectit: Senall & radice seni septenive prodeunt, foliis 
referti cceruleis crassis lentis carnosis : flore luteo, aut candido. 
Nascitur in cultis, et maxime inter vites tempore verno.” Spr angel el8§ 
gives a more exact Latin Sa peuphrine of the Greek o riginal : 
et foliis et caule Portulacam refert: axillas vero binas saben 
singulis foliorum geniculis adnatas, e “quibus eauliculi 6 aut 7. 
Qui vero e radice proveniunt, foliis obtecti sunt crassis, carnosis 
* Gen. Plant. p. 312 a (Tee), et ed. Usteri, p. 347 (1791). eee 
+ Mém, Mus. Hist. Ne wee “rea a 
t Gen. Plant. p 956 (1880). Gen. Plant. i. p. 857 (1867). 
rod. F 7 (1875). 
4 Die Natiirlichen Pflanz nzenfamilien, iii. I. p. 85 — 
Parl on Oe ss 
crip i = rey ae 
§§ Dio po Materia ene ‘1 (1829). See also the various of | - 
thiolis ‘‘ Commen 48 to 1595. sl . 
JouRNAL OF tae Me. 44. (Sepremper, 1906.) vy 
