298 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Helianthes speciem raram pingendam curayit Pena, ex jugis arduis 
montis D. Bonaventure, non procul Aquis-sextiis Bo PER radice 
lignosa, paullum inflexa, superne et inferne nodosa, e rgunt, 
viticule palmares, juncess, recta, flexiles, albidee, foliolis lentis aut 
colutee scorpioidis, ex glauco virentibus ab imo summo tenus 
stipate, floribus aureis et caliculis Helianthes supra ——- 
semine autem non dispari, pusillo. Cisti ledi, amaro a 
1633.—The first English description was published +4 Thomas 
sohneon,. who calls the plant “ creeping orpyn,” its only English 
me. He sa e see this fro 
@ says :—‘* us received th ds of rom 
Fe perato of Naples, under the name of Telephium legi- 
tumum ; and he hath thus given us the history thereof: It produces 
h 
as are not come to floure; for the other have fewer: these leaves 
are smaller, lesse thick also and succulent than those of the former 
kindes, neither are they so brittle: their colour is green, inclinin 
full of a brownish seed. The root is sometimes as thicke as ones 
little finger, tough, white, divided ois some branches, and living 
many yeares.”’ Clusius’s figure is reproduced. 
1651.—Jean Bauhin gives a Poth os full description of it Te 
the name of “ Helianthes speci » + which need not 
an 
rs. He 
says that Jacques Reynaudet sent it from Provence to various 
botanists, ‘‘ primum nomine plante repentis, ut Nummularia secundo 
stirpis Veronics modo repentis.” 
1688.—First definite record of its occurrence in Spain about 
pe year, by Jaime Salvador y Pedrol (1649-1740), who gathered 
t in the Catalonian mountains, according to specimens preserved 
1696 In the Pa of the < [meee fire sigetite sae 
refers the plant to Alsine, and in this catalogue it appear 
** Alsine Scorpioides procumbens major Telephii facie eee 
aris.” He, however, gives no further information about it, except 
a few syne yms. 
Bubani § proposed to alter the generic name to Reynaudetia, 
as T'elephium has, since the time of Dioscorides, been applied to so 
many different genera and their species; e. g., to several species of 
Sedum, Cotyledon, and Kalanchoé. eden saa in 1557, and 
* In his edition of ee Herbal, p. 519 (London, 1633; reprinted oe 
second Porseorsas without alterations, 163 36). 
+ Historia Plantarum, oe a “ "cum fig. (Yverdon, 1651). 
: { Almagestun Bo otanicum, p. os a n). 
§ Fl. Pyrenea, iii. p. 17 (190 
