800 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Vaumaro,* also in the wood of oe era and below St. Baume. 
All these places seem to be in the department of Bouches-du- Rhone. 
Miller’s Gardeners’ Dictionary, the plant first appears in the 
third edition (vol. ii, 1789) as ‘A native of Italy, Spain, and the 
southern parts of France, from whence the seeds have been pro- 
cured by some persons who are curious in Botany; who preserve it 
in their gardens for the sake of variety; it is a low plant, whose 
branches trail on the ground; the leaves are small and roundish, 
of a glaucous solace; and of a pretty thick consistence ; the flowers 
are small, and of a whitish green colour ; so that the whole plant 
makes but an ordinary appearance. 
Synonymy of T. tapas 
Merophragma terrestre — Fl. dep. Hautes-Pyrénées, 365 
oO —Dulac, like Buban ane ves of the current generic 
and omg: this hee it. He places it in the family 
Gracilicaulacee, a name which he proposes “for Paronychiacea. 
Dulac’ ora is sathaakein for its revolutionary ideas on the 
subject of nomenclature, a disturbing element that seems to ro 
inspired several Pyrenean Floras—such as Lapeyrouse’s, Bentham 
Dufour’s, nar s, and to a lesser extent those of Noulet and a 
ag Ea 
any indication of what wee is inten is very dou tf 
whether it can apply to T. Imperati, as is far out of = limits of 
this species, and is one of a list of stated to be found on a 
nitrate soil in the governments of Kiew vai Poltawa, beige the 
rivers Orel and Verestowaja, which renders its ment still more 
obscure. Trautvetter (Incr, ji. Rossice, p. 808, n, 2111) —_ 
the name as an ‘addition’ to the Russian Sitky: but give 
further Pat callie about the plan 
T. alternifolium Moench, Meth. Pl. Marburg. 231 (1794).—The 
Linnean ecm name did not commend itself to the author. 
- oppositifolium Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 888 (1762). sag is 
o do abt whatever that this i is T. Imperati. Linneus m 
a sonatas: obelisk (+), which indicates — that it is a pe 
species or a plant unknown to him, except by description. The 
nnean species is based upon the figure 1 and description of a plant 
collected by Thomas Shaw somewhere in North Africa or the coast 
district of Western Asia. The plants of this collection were ex- 
amined and enumerated by Dillen in a separately paged appendix 
to Shaw’s Travels in Barbary and the Levant (1788), with a separate 
title, “ Catalogus Plantarum quas in variis Africe et Asiw — 
collegit,”’ p. 46, n. 572, c. fig. (several plants figured on a page, and 
es page of figures ibe! to an Oxford worthy of the ae): 
type- 2 is among Shaw’ s plants Lima in the Oxford 
Fam art of a rea sn a . 
and is pom T. Imperati, in which the aii leaves under the 
* This is given in the Provencal dialect ase‘ Lou valon de Vaumaro.” 
