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P. tucens L, subsp. BRASILIENSIS mih 
P. lucens K. Schumann (non L.) in FL Bras. iii. 7138, t. 119, 
fig. 2 (1894). 
Province of Piauhy, N. E. Brazil, 1841, Gardner, n. 2756. 
or ~ e years I have hesitated as to the position of Gard- 
ner’s specimens from Brazil, which Schumann referred to lucens. 
Further sudy, however, compels me to separate it from the type 
as a subspecie 
True one occurs in Chili (“ Rio de 8. José, ne Krause, 
1863,” ex F. Philippi), and also in Cuba, Poeppig! St. Lucia, 
Guatemala, Bernoulli, n. 598! and Florida (Curtiss, n. 6692! a nd 
, e frui 
decidedly winged, the Takers! ones are less so; ates less 
coriaceous, adpressed. In habit the plant is somewhat between 
P. lucens L. var. azorica Ar. Benn. and d P. malia 
n 
mare t. 2, fig. 10, and Reichenbach, Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. vii 
36, fig. 64, are compared with that canal l..¢., 
atacsites in the carina will at once be see 
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of the above set. This Hortus Siccus is not referred to in the 
Flora of Middlesex, oe no copy is, I believe, possessed by the 
National Herbarium at Cromwell Road. Since several of the 
the locality is not given in in the Flora of Middles It will 
seen that the plants are correctly named in almost aay case, but 
rare species is seme Z The specimen of Euphrasia stricta 
is the earliest kno 
Species Pl. in 1816; and took refuge in British territory in in 1822. 
Trimen and Dyer stated he added Polygonum mite in 1826 to the 
pee Flora, but it had been previ viously found; it is the Persi- 
ria angustifolia ex ns A entre florens M. P., 90 Ray Syn. 
145, 5, 1726, and Dillenius — n his herbarium from 
Chelsea : see Dillenian pment p- 
