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perhaps by Sir James Smith, in whose herbarium the o 
broad-leaved British plant figures as 5. 
name to forms with relatively entire leaves, whether narrow or 
broad, and places all the others, although with some hesitation, 
under S. clandestina, making of the apparent type of this latter 
plant a variety multifida. peeene se 
Tf the first three published names be recognized in this way 
as representing three distinct subspecies, there remains the allo- 
cation of those following which stand largely for more or less 
proterandrous and cleistogamous flowers, varying tween | 
type of S. Verbenaca and S. clandestina, to the former of which, 
on the evidence of the specimens in the National Herbarium, 
S. collina Lowe may similarly be referred. The type of S. poly- 
ha Hoffm. i i 
characters of S. horminoides and S. Verbenaca f S. controversa 
Ten. Ih 
little doubt but that this has been rightly ae by Parlatore 
d M. Briquet as a tall, hairy, narrow-leaved ally of S. clandestina, 
diflora St. Amans, seem applicable to a comparatively 
form of the restricted erbenaca. Under S 
ever, two plants appear to be included, the corolla in one being 
blue, and a the shee purple with white spots at the throat. The 
