8 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
AGALUS canEsceNS. [This name should be retained for the 
a he ahich Lowe called later 4. Solandri. The synonymy is 
A. canescens Br, in Buch, Canar. Ins. 197, n. 399 (nomen) 
(1825); Sol. MSS. et Herb. Banks! ex Lowe, Prim. 
(1831) ; non DC. Astrag. 142 (1802) nec Bunge, Gen. Astra- 
gal. ii. 174 (1869) nec Kit. in Linnea, xxxii. 625 (1863). 
A. Solandri Lowe in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 294 (1856); Fl. 
Mad. i. 188 (1862). 
« Although in strictness Dr. Solander’s MS. designation of this 
plant is not superseded by A. canescens of De Ca ndolle, that species 
having merged into a synonym of 4. onobrychoides Bieb., it would 
be now undesirable to adopt a name having no real claim to prefer- 
sa and liable to cause confusion’ (Lowe in Kew Journ. l.c.). 
ander’s name, however, must be adopted by those followers of 
the law of priority who do not accept the formula ‘‘ once a oles 
always a synonym ”’; it dates from Lowe’s P baer (1831)—Brown's 
paged copy of Willdenow, p. 4156, runs: ‘ A. canescens caulescens 
diffusus. foliolis ovalibus retusis eat spicis paucifloris, siliquis 
falcatis compressis pilosis. Hab. Insula Porto Santo prope 
Madeirum locis arenosis. Fr. tecdini a 
PsoRALEA BITUMINOSA. ‘‘ me sepibus.”’ 
MELSLoTUS INDICA iM ns Salzm.] 
M. rrarica kam Lippaliton 5 Tapety] 
Trir 
tT. Caeaeenr 
T. ANGUSTIFOLIUM, 
JT. STELLATUM 
T, GLOMERATUM, 
T. sTRIATU 
T. AGRARIUM i (T. procumbens L.] 
T. procumBens [7’. minus Relh. 
[The confusion in these ry is not quite satisfactorily i ai 
up by Lowe, whose note (under 7’. minus) runs as follows 
good spec. of this pl. on one seek ae arked ‘ Tr. agrarium es ae 
Pl. 1087—-Madera’ in BH. sllicionty attest the syn. T. agrarium 
of Buch. On the other hand, his 7. procumbens was doubtless 
founded on the ‘ 7. agrarium var. foliis non retusis Madera 1776 
Downe’ of the same Herb. marked also ‘ 7’. procumbens,’ and which 
is unquestionably true 7. Procmbens L !” The latter plant, it is 
clear from Brown’s MS. list (in which the phrase ‘ var. foliis non 
Sige follows the name), i is the 7. agrarium of the list published 
by ; the “three specimens,” and three others which Lowe 
apparently did not see, were collected by Banks and Solander,.and 
e the procumbens of Brown’s list—the name procumbens is attached 
$i vines in the herbarium, as well as to Downe’s plant. The syno- 
nymy is therefore as given above.] 
(To be continued. 
