406 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
in the plant detected by Isaac Carroll near Cork in 1853, named 
by Syme as a variety of the common groundsel, but subsequently 
set down by Dr. Focke as a natural crossing of that species with 
S. squalidus L. 
EXpPLaNnaTion oF Prats 444. 
Fig. 1.—Senecio Jacobea L., from a specimen gathered at Portmarnock, Co. 
Dublin, July 14th, 1902. : 
Fig. 2.—S. Cineraria DC., from a specimen gathered at Sorrento Cliffs, 
Dalkey, Co. Dublin, July 24th, 1902. 
ig. 3.— x S. albescens, a hybrid between S. Cineraria and S. Jacobea, 
inerar aps identical with S. calvescens. From a 
i Geom gathered July 24th, 1902, at Vico, where it grows in association with 
S. albescens. 
All of the above figures about one-third natural size, and photographed from 
herb peci ,in which the form of the flowers is very imperfectly shown. 
ALABASTRA DIVERSA.—Parr X, 
By Spencer Moors, F.L.§. 
Note on Satvia Russetxim Benth. 
century by Dr. Patrick Russell. It is placed in the section Hemi- 
S, vert , sed minores. Foli e S. pomifere {i.e. oblong 
Instead of cordate-lyrate]. Species distinctissima.” ntham, 
however, took what it is submitted a wrong step in tacking 
n to S. Russellii a var. 8, founded on Aucher Eloy No. 18 n 
Kotschy No. 102 is this variety which usually does duty for 
8. Russellii in herbaria, and which, judgin mber of 
Specimens representing it, must be a fairly common plan deed, 
absence from that collection, neither is there another specimen of it 
at the Museum. In fact, this seems to be a case—and there are 
more such at the Museum than would be thought at all likely—of 
