290 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
pet ed flores sunt albi. Haseiter in vineis locisque cultis.”’ 
he name of the a is derived from Telephos, king of Mysia, 
who was eouiiiel by Achilles, and whose wound was subsequently 
healed = the agpleation of the rusty point of the spear on which 
the blood had dried, moistened in the succulent stem of the plant. 
liny’ s account was taken — Dioscorides with but slight verbal 
alteration; and with the issue of the works of ancient writers, 
which immediately followed the invention of printing, this is the 
earliest printed book* in which the name is to be found. e para- 
graph relating to Telophit tum is thus reproduced in Philemon Hol- 
land’s translation of Pliny’s Natural History, book xxvii, ch. 13:— 
‘* As touching Telephium, it is an hearbe in leafe and stem re- 
sembling Pukeclishe immediatly from the root there spring seven 
or eight small braunches, and those garnished with grosse and 
fleshie leaves. It loveth to grow in toiled grounds, but principally 
among vines.” The first botanist who uses the name of Telephium 
in its current sense, and apeltee it to the plant now known as Tele- 
phium Imperati, is Clusius.t The car of the subfamily and 
tribe are eae: from cot mc descriptio 
ELEPHIUM (Ord. Dia Nat dic: Caryophyllacem, Sub- 
am, ‘Alntiinass trib. Apecouiae Bartl.). Pe aa en Hist. 
Lugd. Bot. ed. 2, p. 856 Abts Linn. Gen. , p. 60, n. 
(1738) ; Syst. Nat. ed. 2, p. 21 (1740); Gen. Plant. ed. 2, p. 129, 
n. 298 (1742); Syst. Nat. ed. 6, n. 298 (1748); Gen. Plant. ed. 4, 
p. 106, n. 298 (1752) Gen. Plant. ed. 5, p. 181, n. 839 (1754); 
Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 965, n. 889 (1759); Gen. Plant. ed. 6, n. 877 
64) ee Nat. ed. 12, p. 220, n. 877 (1767); ed. 18, n. 877 
Scop. Introd. Hist. Nat. p, 380, n ; Juss. Gen. Plant. 
p. 812 (1789) ; Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. oo D. 221 (1791); Desf. FI. 
Atlantica, i. p. 270 (1798) ; Cand. Fl. Frang. iv. p. 400 (1805) ; 
Pers. ayo Plant. i. p. 829 (1 el Cand. “Prote ili. p. 866 (1828) ; 
Bertol. F'. Italica, iil. p. 499 (Dec., 1888); Endl. Gen. Plant. n. 5209 
(1840); ; Ledeb. Fl. Rossica, ii. p. 164 (1844) ; Gren, et Godr, Fl. de 
France, i. p. 608 (1848) ; Gren. Fl. Chaine Jurass. p. 266 (1865) ; 
Benth. et Hook. i Gen. Plant. i. B — (1867) ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. i. 
.8 
De utsch. Schweiz. Fl. aufl. 3, i. Dp. 899 (1892); Parl. Fl. Italiana, 
ix. p. 629 (1898); Torre et Harms, Gen. Siphonog. p. 185 (1900) ; 
Thonner, Exk. Fl. Eur. p- 99 (1901). 
Se pala 5. Petala 5, in disco obscure _berigyno inserta, Bog 
Stamina 5, sepalis opposita, subperigyn m basi it 
mentis sabalets -filiformibus sompreasia aaa lineari-oblon nge. 
Gynecium meiomerum : ovarium ovoideum trigonum apice attenu- 
* Historia Naturalis ( Venice, 1469). 
t+ Pliny’s Naturall Histori istorie, in 87 Books, p. 290 (1601). 
10 Raters Plantarum Historia, lib. iiii. cap. 45, p. xvii. fig. (Antwerp, 
