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the record three years further back :— Horminum pratense foliis 
serratis. CBP. Gallitrichum sylvestre vulgo, sive sylvestris Sclarea, 
ore purpureo, ceruleové magno, J. B. ibid. 311. Botanici nostrates 
(ut optime notat Celeberr. noster Raius) hactents per errorem 
habuerunt hance plantam pro Hormino sylvestri vulgo in Anglia 
Horm 
the further subdivision of the group, especially of the forms usually 
placed under R. tomentosa, was necessary in view of the modern 
elaboration of other critical groups. Crépin’s later observations 
show that he did not wish personally to follow out in detail this 
my paper and his criticisms upon it in the hand, o more 
than an correspondence to make the crooked places 
straight—Aveustin Ley. 
‘Ecuyrospermum Schott in Isis (1823), 1050 (Legumin.) 
(Quid ?).”—It may perhaps be worth while to dispel the doubt 
expressed in the above extract in the Index Kewensis, and to trace 
the further use of thename. In Js?s, l.c., the vernacular s nonym 
Vinhatigo is added—a name which is generally applied to Plathy- 
menta foliolosa Benth., and there is nothing in Schott’s brief 
tainly does not represent Plathymenia. Of this Bentham says 
(Fl. Bras. xv. 2, 122) “Hchirospermum Allemao ex Saldanha da 
Gama Config. e Deser. Madeiras Rio de Jan. 39 cum ic., genus ex 
arboribus pluribus diversis confectum est, quarum altera est forte 
