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Caledonia in the distribution of the species. It is not easy to 
understand why Blume’s name (1825) should take precedence of 
ea a. in 1786. A new species, L. chenopodioides, 
ited a 
is Ci *“* Watt in Journ. Linn. Soc. ined.,’’ but it does not 
appear in ‘is paper on Indian reuse recently — in the 
imnean Society's Journal. Under L. prolifera Klatt, 
name lineolata, under which ‘‘ Lysimachia No. 3” of Bivachey and 
Winterbottom’s Himalayan Herbarium was distributed, ae 
have been cited. L. obovata is quoted as of ‘‘ Herb. Ham.; Wall 
Cat. 1488.” We do not know on what authority Hamilton’s name 
is attached; there is certainly no plant so named in his herbarium, 
and Wallich, in his nectar rather ‘ List,’--no. 1488, calls 
the plant L. obovata Wall. With regard to the new species of 
(index excluded ears a statement that ‘‘all the species here 
for the first time Pinan Se will be found, together with figures of 
them, in a paper by Dr. Wait, shortly to be publi shed in the 
‘Journal of the Linnean Society’ ”; and in the ‘Flora,’ “Watt 
of these. Dr. Watt's paper ges red on December 18th, and 
a 
a a 
“* Watt’ would have had to be cited by subsequent writers as 
the authority for them 
e have fears referred to the new spelling of the name 
Willughbeia_* Willoughbeia’’—-which is adopted throughout the 
genus. At first sight this seems only another case of Chinchona v. 
Cinchona. Had it been so, the innovation would have been 
unjustifiable ; but coe we find that the name of the friend of 
Ray, whom it commemorates, was always _ Haeneagat we are 
at a loss to imagine what can have sted the alteration. 
eoonpess genus Micrechites is spelt oece, but this is probably 
merely a 
It need ees be added that criticism of this kind does not, and 
is not intended to, detract from full recognition of the value of the 
work as a whole. But we venture to think that a little more 
attention to the rules of Someeintine would improve what is as it 
stands a most useful Flo 
. M. Houmes has issued the first fasciculus, containing 
25 species, of his ‘ Algew Britannice rariores exsice a Twenty 
of the species are new e Britain, and the remainder : 
Mr. Holmes writes :—* No. 5 (Dictyosiphon hiypuride) is sof especial 
interest, since Agacch, erroneously I feel sure, r. egards it as a form 
Peta ia Teall ome lt is never met with in the South 
where C. flagelliformis is abundant, and in structure 
aoa Beton: is so exactly a Dictyosiphon that it is difficult to 
* «That excellent a Mr. Francis Willughby, lately deceased.”—Ray, 
Preface to ‘ Observations,’ 1673. 
