254 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
pemucription from sags for in ag diagnostic phrase Bux- 
baum wrote “ flore albo”’ instead of « flor agno.”’ Both Gmelin 
and "om ith likewise refer to ‘the: same plant mentioned in Tourne- 
fort’s Corollarium, p. 7. Lastly, V. persica was described by Poiret 
the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. The description tallies as nearly 
as possible with that of V. Tournefortii. Boissier (Fl. Orientalis, 
iv. p. 466) keeps up V. Buxbaumii and V. filiformis, and notes their 
differential characters, but wrongly adduces V. Tournefortii as a 
synonym of the former, thus again causing confusion. Syme also 
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found it at Brimp ris in. Berkshire; the spec are in the 
Oxford Herbarium. In Ireland, where also it is — eddrall dis- 
tributed, it was first found near Cork, about 1845, from which 
locality there ‘are Fas Re in Herb. Brit. lag ., dated 1848 
(I. Carroll). The earliest sears record of i urrence, as a 
British colonist, is in Johns Fl, of aces oe (1839), 
in which a coloured gfe 4 the plant is inserted as a fr ontispiece 
“to the volume. The locality given is Whiterig, in Berwi ckshire ; 
and there are authentic specimens so labelled by Johnston in Herb. 
Brit. The author states that he has fomperst these Berwickshire 
Kew) ; 
mith, who, however, attached no importance to them, or else over- 
e the plant in his English 
‘Flora (1828); There are also insatiplea in Herb. Brit. Mus. from 
ecteins burgh, in Dumbartorisbire (1834), and from Brimpton, in 
‘Berkshire (Rev. H. Kirby, 1835). The vertical range of V. Bua- 
baumii is from sea-level to 800 metres near St. Jolin’s, Weardale, 
in Durham (J, G. Baker), and to 285 metres in Dublin (N. Colgan). 
According to Mr. R. Ll. Praeger (Irish Topographical Botany, 1900), 
the plant is now distributed through every one of the Irish counties. 
In Britain, as Mr. Arthur Bennett has been kind enough to point 
out, there are now only five eoctiain’ in which asa is not any record 
of its occurrence up to the present, viz. Huntingdonshire, Notting- 
perch: Kirkendbrightshire, Selkirkshire, ae Wes ne thian 
It mentioned that in Smith’s Herbarium are the two 
Si oosimaria on which he founded JV, filiformis, one = ,pollected by 
’ Tournefort and the other by Steven. 
