1911] HILL—OENOTHERA LAMARCKIANA 137 
part of the work (p. 245), where but five lines were devoted to it, 
here fifty-three, or more than a column of the double-columned 
quarto. It has every appearance of being based on the living 
specimens growing in his garden. Near the close of the account 
he says: 
We received the seed of this [plant], under the name of Lysimachia vir- 
giniana, from Padua in 1619. Being sown in the spring it remained all sum- 
mer and winter without a stem, but in the following year produced a stem 
towards the end of spring and began to flower in June. From the seed, which 
falls in autumn (for the plant is annual), it blooms abundantly in my garden 
every year, even up to the close of autumn. 
The phraseology on p. 245 is slightly different, and is the one 
I usually see quoted. Under Lysimachia lutea corniculata it is 
stated: 
The seed itself, which was sent from Padua in 1619, grew finely in the 
garden, and it is readily spontaneous from the fallen seed up to this time. 
The account in the appendix may not be in all copies. A second 
edition of the Pinax was published, in references to which I find 
different dates attached (1661, 1675). Ona flyleaf of my copy is 
written by some unknown hand ‘Une 2™* Edition sans change- 
ment parat en 1671.” It was a reprint. Authors sometimes cite 
one of these references, sometimes both, but that on page 245 
when but one is given. Thus Gronovius in CLayton’s Flora vir- 
ginica (p. 58, 1762), under Lysimachia lutea corniculata, gives only 
Pp. 245. Linnagus, in his Hortus Cliffortianus (p. 144, 1737); 
gives both, but has p. 516 instead of 520, perhaps a typographical 
error; if not, it shows discrepancies in copies. Much of the 
description which covers this and other references to Lysimachia 
lutea by various authors cited in Ray’s Historia plantarum is a 
verbatim transcript of BAUHIN’s in the appendix to the Pinax 
(1:862. 1686). There are some omissions and a few minor changes 
and additions. But these might be needful, as he sought to include 
variations or forms covered by four descriptive or adjective 
terms (virginiana, siliquosa, corniculata, and americana) published 
between 1623 (BAUHIN) and 1651 (FABIUS CoLUMNA). 
The time of introduction of O. Lamarckiana into Europe is 
taken to be about 1614. Linnaeus (Hort. Cliff.) says: “Brought 
