130 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
new edition of the London Catalogue shows serious are 
throughout; in Fumaria no two figures ne Ge a 
Pugsley revised the species for the Catalogue, it may be Buiphbd sed 
that this is the more accurate. The vice-comital numbers stand 
thu 
L. Cat. Druce List. 
~ > 46 
pallidiflora Jord. 40 
purpurea Pugsley 24 15 
Borei Jord. oF 53 
5 ? 20 
aa Pugsley 2 ~ Cornwall 
di Bor 31 48 
officinalis L. ~ 106 109 
densiflora DC. 43 44 
Vaillantii Lois. 15 16 
parvifiora Lam. 22 23 
Ireland is excluded from the London Catalogue estimate, but 
Mr. Druce’s census for that country is hardly more satisfactory. 
He has apparently overlooked Mr. Praeger’s sire. revision of the 
distribution (Irish Naturalist, 1905, 156-163), and a comparison of 
this with his List shows the following dee 
Praeger. Druce. 
12 24 
capreolata L. 
purpurea Pugsley 9 0 
* Borei Jord. 16 Sl 
muralis Sonder. 0 14 
confusa — 27 29 (Bastardi) 
ar. hibernica Pugsley 18 
densifices DE. 5 24 
officinalis 91 28 
Mr. Druce oa the precedent of most other lists and British 
floras in giving no nagticg: to the place of ee ae of each 
species; his reason for the omission, however—that this “can be 
obtained in almost all cases froin the Index Kewensis or its Supple- 
ments” is hardly convincing, as oie Sone o work is not often to be 
met with in the libraries of amateur botanists. It would have 
been to the advantage of the List if | he had at any rate himself 
looked up these references—we should then have been spared the 
supersession of Ranunculus sacs coer (Stirp. Austr. fase. ii. 
84, 1763) by BR. parvulus L. (Man 1767). On the other hand, 
even in the case of intro actin ae supplies this information for 
genera bs = for orders, which can be of little service to workers 
at ie iti ts. The explanations of exaileaee de shite ally 
more per ieren AL given in tabular they are 
mse Ais Amph e “applied to Seale 
Among the smaller points which suggest criticism is the state- 
ment that it was “evidently the intention of Linneus” to employ 
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