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VERONICA BUXBAUMIL AS A BRITISH COLONIST. 
By Freperic N. Wituams, F.L.S. 
Tuts plant has been a colonist since 1825, according to Watson, 
and is now generally distributed throughout Britain, from the 
Channel Islands to Caithness. In the last edition of the London 
confusion can be readily ascertained, The following list of citations, 
quoted at the erties: will supply the siniiads of the tangle to be 
unravelle 
1.—V. FPR, var. Tournerortu Vill., Prosp. Hist. Pl. Dauph. 
p. 20 (1779); Hist. Pl. Dauph. ii. p. 9 (1787) : = V. orricinatis 
var. Tournerorti Schrad., Fl. caelaeate i, p. 82 (1806). 
2.—V. per: F, hii Schmidt, Fl. Boém. i. p. ere? non Vill. 
= V. orricrauis Linn ., Sp. Plant. p. 11 (1758). 
3.—YV. Bren P. W. Schmidt, in Mayer, Samml. Pye Aufs, i. 
187 (1791): = V. pecrinata Linn., Mant. Plant. i. p. 24 
(i767). 
4,—V. Buxpaumi neuer Fl. Napol. i. p. 7, t. 1 (1811) :—-the plant 
under discu 
5.—V. FILIFORMIS Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soe. i. p. 195 (1791). 
6.—V. persica Poiret, Encycl. Meth. viii. p. 542 (1808): = no. 5. 
7.—V. Tournerortn C.C. Gmel., Fl. Badens. i. p. 89 ( Sera = 110.6. 
“V. Tournefortii Vill.” of pict _ Heneestt, lis p. 1192, .is an 
er mt as itis the plant referred to - 1, described as a variety 
by s. The error arises from ite. bese indexed as a species at 
the fr of Villars’ work. 
4 to 7 include two species, first defined by Buxbaum, and 
figured: together on the same om te. No. 4 was founded by Tenore 
.on Buxbaum, Cent. Plant. i. p. 26, t. 40, ff 2 (1728). cose pe 
fine plate well — the » English plant. ; 
Tenore’s work, someone has n in pencil on the plate « “ Ve ee 
formis,”’ ‘eee snisaliderstenlion the Italian context, which 
states that a figure of a half-opened bud of V. jiliformis has been 
added for comparison, but that the latter plant is ‘‘affatto diversa.” 
No. 5 was founded by Smith on Buxbaum, Cent. Plant. i. p. 25, t. 
40, f. 1, and described coe Tournefort’s dried specimens, which 
were shrivelled up and damaged. Smith had evidently neither seen 
nor examined living ecttion: No. 7 was founded by Gmelin on 
the same figure ; he further pene as a synonym Smith’s plant 
but apparently disapproves of the name. Gmelin describes the 
plant from authentic living epieiioeias and his description is more 
accurate and clear than the sketchy and careless description = 
Smith. Smith was misled, moreover, by Buxbaum’s error 
