320 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Norres ON THE FOREGOING. 
By JAMES Britten, F.L.S. 
Mr. MArsHAbu’s interesting notes suggest many matters for 
discussion, on a few of which I offer the following notes. To eac 
note a prefixed the Z. C. number given by Mr. Marshall in his 
“1. CaLTHaA paLustris L. c. minor. It is very one — 
plant so called by Syme is identical with the var. B min 
us bearing on iy one aoe ; but Miller "does not mention 
this uniflorous character—his diagnosis i is ‘ foliis orbiculato-cor- 
datis, flore minore,” that of C. major—his other constituent of 
C. palustris L.—being i folils orbiculatis “cman flore major 
Miller says ‘‘ These two sorts are supposed to be the same, but I 
have never observed either of them to vary, either in their natural 
ay of growth, or when they are removed into a garden. They 
both grow en moist boggy land, in man: 8 parts of England, but 
the first [C. major] is the most comm De Candolle’s refer- 
ence to the gro oath of C. ménor in Hngland seems based on Miller, 
whose cultivation of the plant he mentions; neither indicate the 
habitat as i from that of C. elit. although the gee 
we now call m is practically confine 
Syme says. ees who think it desirable that a Sein. name 
206 Sa ULNE: Mel ly vil? Si on this 
plant, as cat j in itosion a r% st Helio’ s, Jersey (Journ. Bot. 
1880, 146), seems conclusive as to its seem fe a form thes 
S. anglica L. [gallica L.]. Mr. Williams (Journ. Linn. Soc 
57) so regards it, as do MM. Rouy and | Peasants (Fl. f eniog “ti, 
119) and all our British floras. 
326-7. Dr. Robinson’s conclusions were the result of much 
careful work and ie - will be seen on reference to 
his paper (Journ. Bot. 1906, 386-390), and cannot, I think, be 
lightly set aside. <A iva to Journ. Bot. 1900, 31, will 
show that O. stricta L.—the corniculata of Mr. Marshall's ‘ist 
—has been at least naturalized in Devonshire for more than a 
century. 
347. 2 authority for Ononis spinosa se mitis is Linneus 
(Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1006), as correctly cited by Messrs. Groves in their 
edition of Babington—at an any rate this is vey shui which "Miller 
(Gard. Dict. ed. 8 (1768)) eelirnes by his O. mitis, for he cites the 
Syme Synonymy. 
