376 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
6. PANICULATA X var. a = C. LupIBUNDA Gay in Ann. Sc. 1838, 
357.—German Silesia. 
. PARADOXA X vart.a = C. Scniirzeana Figert in Allg. Bot. 
Zeit. v. ie eReeaner Dileste. 
8. = ©. Arrnurtana Beckmann & Figert in 
Ber. Doniscts Bot. ‘Gee vii. 30.—Prussia and Swizerland. 
The two Scottish hybrids are therefore of oun interest. In 
his List of British Plants (January, 1908), Mr. G. C. Druce gives 
three vice-counties for x C. helvola; in the. ‘London Catalogue, 
ed. 10 (February, 1908), Rev. E. S. Marshall gives a single vice- 
county. om specimens in Herb. Kew. marked “? C. he lola,” 
I believe the third is probably Angus. 
The hybrid with C. dioica is ae ab the toate frequent, and 
is figured by Boott, Illustr. g. Care 
n 68 specimens of the common eke Boott found one with 
cies: spikelets, 10 with four, 22 with five, 22 with six, 9 with 
reteosherty 4 with eight spikelets. The average therefore seems 
to ; 
AMATEUR NOMENCLATURE. 
By James Brirren, F.L.S. 
oe the somewhat curious heading “ Lyonsia straminea 
= L. straminea (R. Br.) Benth. and Mueller,” Prof. A. J. 
this Journal 7, p. 235. 
paper is so recent and so sab accessible that there is no need to 
repeat We contentions ; but it may be well to reprint Prof. Ewart’s 
note and to deal briefly with the misapprehensions on which it 
seems 7 be based. The note is as follows :— 
“In pursuing some interesting archeological but hardly bota- 
nical studies, Britten concludes that the L. reticulata of F. v. 
r is the true L. straminea of R. Br., and proposes a new 
name (L. Brownit) for the plant, supposed to be Brown’s L. 
straminea by Bentham and Mueller. A more confusing and un- 
necessary addition to synonymy could hardly be proposed, and it 
is interesting to note on p. 240 that Britten sharply criticizes 
ce for a similar addition to synonymy based on no more certain 
grounds. Britten admits that ‘Brown published no detailed de- 
<r ae of the species,’ but considers that De Candolle’s descrip- 
tion of L. straminea referred, ‘at any rate in part,’ to Mueller’s 
from such changes, and if there is any difficulty in regard to the 
specimens at the National Museum, London, surely the proper 
