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oon elements of the alpine flora of Switzerland and Austria 
at of Scotland,” would seem to indicate. negimaars of the re- 
lationship of the Scottish eat —H. & J. Gro 
Lemna potyrruiza.—lI found this plant in eae near Tenterden, 
— on a ae 22nd. This is, I believe, of rare occurrence in this 
—G. R. Warp. 
aia IcE BAHUsIENSIS Fr.—This name cannot claim the ae 
often accorded to it by those who retain Statice for the plants now 
more correctly placed under Limonium. The Index Reuibunds cites 
for it ‘‘ Fries ane 1.10” (1882), but rafexonae shows that, although 
Fries here pointed out the differences between the two plants plac ed 
her by Linneus in FU (none ), he 
the Linnean localities. Later n 17, which according to 
rt r. a —— join at me, was published in 1839) 
Fries distinguishe es the retains these names for 
them, but mpsewwe Deer (FL. Han 12 (1838) ) _ raised them 
to specific rank as S. rariflora bahusiensis Fr. Mant. 
and S. Behen (St. Limonium scanica oe fant.”). Tried in Mant.ii. 
cites these names, but places them as synonyms of his S. bahusiensis 
and 8. scanica. The latter eee is not in the Kew Indez, although 
it has precisely the same claim as S. cat naa to appear share 
In the Summa (i. 201, 1846) ae adopts the name S. Behen Drejer 
for his ** St. L, sc sania, but retains bahusiensis, of which he a 
two forms—borealis (** St. Bahusiensis r. Nov. Mant. 18 
ii, p. 17”) and danica (* S. rariflora Drey:”’). His reasons for. this 
retention are hardly convincing: he writes—“ /. prioritatis lege hee 
species S. Bahusiensis, sub quo nomine sex annos ante Dreyerum 
E ietin H i 
specie non differat, hoc nomen ab aliis receptum ad speciem nostram, 
hac ratione dilatatam, transferrem, nisi Bahusiensis nomen utpo 
speciei stationem centralem indicans revera aptius esset; St. rart- 
vere remotis, comparata potius densiflora, quam rariflora dicenda.” 
Ii is pre that the existence of a name in MS. cannot claim 
pricey over a published one; and the distribution of SA ape in 
e Herbarium Na male, even if such distribution ecogniz 
ietion (as to which botanists are by no means aaron. soins 
avail in this case, as the printed tickets area He Pac the specimens 
are not so ne synonymy may be tabulated thus 
S. rarrrtora Drejer, Fl. Hafn. 121 (1838). 
8. Limon {form a] eangeae — Mant. i. 10 (1882). 
S. ba is Fries Mant. ii. 17 (1839) ; Siitaiioe i. 201 (1846). 
Ss. fede: ‘Brgon Fl. Hafn. 1 (1818). 
S. Limoninum [forma] scanica Fries Mant. i. 10 (1882). 
S. scanica Fries Mant. ii. 17 (1839). 
Nortn Devon Prants. — The Hon. Mrs. Cardew has quite lately 
‘gathered Scirpus Holoschenus in open and wild common near sand- 
hills on the River Taw, in North Devon. It grows in company with 
Journau or Botany.—Vou, 42. [Nov. 1904.] 28 
