292, THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
follows that H. murorum should pee one? the British list. 
I suggest, therefore, that the British “ H. cesium” so-called should 
be merged in H. ee as a variety, ore as Mr. J. G. Baker was 
the first to suggest a solution of the difficulty, perhaps his name 
might be associated with. it instead of that of Smith, who was first 
responsible for the confusion. mae ‘H. murorum”’ of British 
floras (var. B of Linneus) beco H. silvaticun* Gouan. 
most authorities Wallroth} is reaited with the name, but 0 
reference it is found that he duly cites Gouan as the authority 
for the plant as a species. The specimens in the Linnean Her- 
barium ser onion it seems, what plants Linneus intended 
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variety as under H. murorum, and those of them which stand will, 
in ace have to be cited as under H. silvaticum. To take a few 
seriati 
Vas. be micracladium has never been described at all, but was 
issued in a set of dried specimens as ‘H. silvaticum var. ml icra 
cladium” Dahlstedt, Hierac. Skand. exs. iv 59. 
Var. d. Stenstroemii. was published as ‘“ CH. serratifrons var’. 
Stenstroemii.” 
ar. e. pellucidum was described by Laestadius as a species in 
Kongl. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handling. 1824, p. 172, and ~equedl 
to a — by Almquist (1881). 
ar. g. crassiusculum. This plant is not et A in Dahlstedt’s 
“ memoir ; ~_ sibly it was issued in ewsiccate, as it only occurs 
as a varietal n n ‘*H. macranthelum var. dincinvidenn Almq,.,” 
a species of the 1 Pilosella group. 
. lepistodes seems to have been published as H. vulgatwm 
var. pisos Dahlst 
arcophyllum was first described as ‘“ H. silvaticum var. 
sareutinyilina,? Stenstroem, Virml. Archier. 18 
Var. y. subulatidens was 4 douerilsed by Dahlstedt as “H. grandidens 
ulatid a name given by him to the earlier and more 
orrect ‘‘ H. silvaticum var. triangulare”’ of Lénnroth, Resa Smal. 
Gotl. p. 89 (extr. Kongl. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Forhandl. 1882); 
and under which latter name it should stand in any prospective list. 
hile on this variable species, it may be pointed out t that 
no. 945, H, stenolepis, has been reduced to 2 sa of H. silvaticum 
by Almquist, 5 ~ Dahlstedt’s concurren 
many forms of this group the leaves are blotched with purple 
patches, and in 5 iad the term used is “‘ maculata, ere 
scarcely applicable, as they can not a said to be merely pe 
to “ * In the thei uline form “ silvaticus” and “ silvester” are to be be preferred 
sylvaticus ” Sg sylvestris,” as in spite of the statements of some gram- 
ey” is not of Greek origin, ac is corrupt late-Latin. 
t Sched. Crit. Pl. Halens. p. 422 (182 
} Journ, Bot, 1892, p 
; Studier ofver bigte ferddtun, p. 12 (1881). 
