THE GENUS TELEPHIUM 299 
Cesalpini, in 1588, include Coronilla ene in Telephium, of 
which Bauhin approves. Andrea Lacuna, in a Spanish we 
on Dioscorides (1552), ania Coshiednta: ofleinalis, and later 
Buxbaum includes Honkenya peploides. Several of the old bnkchidle 
theughi-d they identified ie plant of Dioscorides with the genus now 
own as Cerinthe, alog, an Hungarian herbalist, points out, 
it is one of the species of this genus which is figured for Telephium 
in the famous B os ine ers of Dioscorides (referred to in 
the post pp bart prese the wore Library of Vienna (see 
Baedeker’s Guide for dates id, 1, 1896, s Codex was printed 
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certain botanists again thought they identified it with the plant 
now known as Sisymbrium Thalianum J. Gay. With the view of 
clearing up the apparent pi Buhari proposed to call the 
present plant Reynaudetia mediterranea, which, if it were only feasible, 
uld be very suitable, having regard to its distributi 
| Meet. who knows nothing about the plant, and does not 
seem to have seen any specimens, puts it in another genus alto- 
gether, and briefly describes it as ‘thay. oer perenne procumbens 
folio breviore, floribus in capitulum congestis”; and then gives 
= involved deseri iption of some length, compounded of those of 
hose who regard Tournefort’s Institutiones Rei Herbaria as the 
starting-point of modern genera (and they are an increasing number 
of systematic botanists) cannot site this authority for Telephium, as 
one “of the chief characters which he gives—‘‘ flore rosaceo, plurimis 
scilicet petalis, in orbem positis constante’’—radically impairs the 
concept of the genus as now understood. Tournefort evidently took 
Boerhaayve’s original description of the genus is as follows:— 
“Caules crassi, rotundi, politi, in parte inferiori rubicundi ; . folia 
alterna, carnosa, crassa, in margine incisa, succulenta; post florem 
sequitur fructus triangularis semina fere hie includens ; ix 
in plurima tubercula alba divisa.”. Scopoli, viata with a rare 
insight into the affinities of genera, was the first to group several 
sential charac 
anticipated Endlicher a later systematis sk 
wo other references to the plant between the time of Tourne- 
t and Tishene are of interest. Ac i of oe 
of th 
side, near Moulin de Roques-Hautes and St. Antony's s Castle; it 
descends also into the Pourriéres district along the Valley of 
* Historia Plantarum Universalis, iii. p. 593 (Oxford, 1699; this volume 
edited 
Haj Pt. env. d’ Aia, p. 456 (1715). 
