OVERLOOKED PLANTS DESCRIBED BY SCHREBER 845 
whatever and may even be composed in an wit a beiroige 
manner,” and Liquidambar and Manihot are given a mples 
while Art. 57 states that ‘ the original spelling of a sais iat 2 
tc except in case of a a typographic or orthographic error.’ 
Such n 8 ania, Cajanus, and Ci — _ therefore 
revert to ‘their originals—Sesban, Cajan, and Can 
CiEomE virnipirLora (Decade II, 8, tab. iii iD. 
This is C. gigantea L. Mant. 480 S hbiae and if the date 1770 
is to be wie antedates that nam 
SAaPONARIA GRECA (Decade II, 3, tab. v. fig. 2). 
illiams concurs in the opinion that this is identical with 
S. hirsuta Labill. Schreber based it on ‘“ Alsine orientalis fruticosa 
saxatilis foliis et floribus aggregatis’”’ of Tournefort, and we have a 
specimen from rites ky not named by him, which has been re- 
ferred in the Herbarium to S. hirsuta. The plant is now generally 
referred to putcsmkita: "aha which it will have to take greca as 
the oldest — name. The synonymy is :— 
GYPSOPHILA GRE 
Saponaria race Schreb. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. iv. 138, t. v. 
fig. 2 (1770) non Boiss. 
Sapanate heraita Labill. Ic. Pl. Syr. iv. 9, t. iv. fig. 2 (1812). 
Gypsophila hirsuta Spreng. Syst. 11. 873 (1825) et auct. 
Schreber’s DANS is included neither in the Indea Kewensis nor 
the Flora Orien pony in the latter work Boissier names a new 
species Saponaria graca 
GypsopHita LaRicina (Decade II, 5). 
This name, which has fallen entirely out of notice, neither Mr. 
Williams nor myself is able to identify. 
LysmMacHta SERPYLLIFOLIA (Decade I, 10). 
This is based on ‘‘ Anagallis cretica vulgari simillima, flore luteo 
Tourn. Cor. 7.” Of this we have specimens from Tournefort with 
oides Sibth. and ~ bie Gree Prodr. i. 0), where maine 
chara ge 
pase SERPYLLIFOLIA Schreb. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. iv. 144 
77 
L. anagalloides Sibth. & Sm. Fl. Greer Prodr. 1. 130 (1806) ; 
l. Greeea, ii. 74, 6. 190 (1813) ; Knuth, Pama 2638 
(Das Pflanzenreich, iv. 237, 1905) et auct. 
5m following note upon a Tournefortian plant may be added 
Onosma renurFLora Will 
stands in the Index Kewensts, low g A. P. De pao 
This 
(DC. Prodr. x. 65) and onda (FI. Or. vy. 191), as a synony 
Journat or Botany.—Vou. 44. men 1906.] 2c 
