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The original publication of S. wnbrosa is more difficult to trace. 
Opiz’s name appears to be first definitely mentioned in Reichenbach’s 
Fl. Germ, Exsicc. no. 895, quoted by Koch; which is, presumably, a 
nomen nudum. It is also found as S. umbrosa Opiz, Seznam, p. 98 
52); a mere list of Bohemian plants anged as an index to a 
flora. Doubtless Opiz did publish a Aesonckictls but this I have 
not been able to discover. S. media var. wmbrosa Ruprecht in 
Flora, xvii. p. 710 (1834), seems to be the oldest varietal name ; 
his brief diagnosis runs: ‘ y. St. umbrosa Opiz; subdecandra, caule 
adscendente vix dichotomo, petals calyce vix longioribus. H in 
nemorosis locisque Pragam . St. alsinoides 
Schleicher?” It is also B major Koch (pro par te), le. 
S. Elisabethe ¥. Schultz in Archives de Flora, pp. 802-8 (1861), 
is, I ae = referred by our two leading text-books to the 
present plan . decandra, caule adscendente unifariam piloso 
apice piccun foliis caulinis inferioribus cordato-ovatis petiolatis, © 
petiolo folio longiore, vix alato, foliis caulinis superioribus sessilibus 
cordato- vel oblongo-ovatis, acuminatis, floribus alaribus termi- 
nalibusque, pedunculis glaberrimis sub anthesi calyce triplo vel 
quadruplo schagtinatrag: fructiferis seinanteliter patentibus vel sub- 
refractis, calyce 6-8-plo longioribus, calyce glaberrimo rarius basi 
verrucoso, sepalis lanceolatis, petalis niveis oblongi s obtusiusculis 
basin usque is calycem equantibus, icesoieen constanter 
10 niveis, antheris lilacino-purpureis, capsula calycem superante, 
seminibus —- verrucoso- pmneiane: marginatis, margine murl- 
catis. (1). Floret Aprili-ma 
f Syn on. 8. neglecta var. st yipedunoulata mihi 
‘ Differt a S. neglecta, foliis latioribus, inferioribus cae ovatis, 
pedicellis glaberrimis, sub anthesi calyce multo longioribus, calyci- 
bus glaberrimis, petalis calycem subequantibus, nec acca et 
statione ae sg nm. 
I am inclined to that umbrosa an neglecta are often on 
annuals: both re aoe Spr oe under Mr. Townsend’s de- 
ition of S. umbrosa. In ido t flowers from about mid-April 
fini 
to the first or second wee 
Until the matter has ai further “ire ing I suggest that 
it would be at least premature to depose the name S. wmbrosa Opiz, 
even on grounds of priority. But 1 venture i gos and 
