B57 
ON SENECIO SPATHULAFOLIUS. 
By C. a Basineton, F, ne Ss. 
re-examination of the evidence leads me to believe that our plant 
and that of DeCandolle a Np entical. It is a plant which varies 
considerably according to age and possibly ghiaton. The speci- 
mens sent to our herbaria aie the Continent rarely possess the 
beautiful radical leaves of the young plants. These leaves seem no 
plant FL Bot. Zeit. 1828, p. Fig} is admirable That Preteen 
Pare not seen, but in his Fl. Germ v. (ed. 1, 384, and ed. 
, 424), he gives a very Cae ae oti: mo our a nt, and quotes 
but i ed by 
Sturm in 1839 1 called (. spathulafolia Gm), This nlite of 
turm I have no aut Z epresents our plant, and it is quoted by 
DeCandolle to his S. spathulafoliue (Prodr. vi., 362). DeCandolle’s 
Specimens also were sent to him Koch. The figure published 
by Reichenbach fil. (Icon. Fl. Germ., xvi., t. 978, I.), is not nearly 
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campestris of our chalk hills. The two gti seem to me to be 
Ways quite distinct. We also received at our botanic garden, a 
living plant named S. spathulefolius, from Mr. Leichtlin, of Baden, 
which flowered there and then died. It appeared to me to be 
exactly the same as the plant from Holyhead. 
Koch and Nyman consider the S. sprig te of DeCandolle 
to be the C. lanceolata of Lamarck (Fl. Fr. eve ut DeCandolle 
nowhere quotes that name, not even in his Bai all., published 
in the name of Lamarck and himself. As we, es owever, refer our 
Plant to Senecio, there is no question of the priority of DeCandolle’s 
name. If the plant is placed in the genus Cineraria, and it is 
indeed the same as that of Lamarck, then its name will be 
lanceolata Lam., as it is in Nyman (p. 852). But I trust that 
DeCandolle is correct in neglecting thats name of Lamarck, as a less 
applicable one could not easily be found. 
ho a aed now shown good reason for retaining the 
name of S. spathulefolius for our plant, and that it is identical with 
that so faced DeCandolle. 
