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base is maintained ; so that many of the North American species de- 

 scribed by Sereno Watson and most of the species from the province 

 of Yun-nan described by M. Franchet,* in which the ovary and 

 capsule are strictly unilocular, should be transferred to the genus 

 Melandryum. It would be better also to exclude four species, 

 retained by Rohrbach in his monograph, in which the ovary has 

 5 styles, and is of course 5-septate at the base, viz., Polyschemone 

 nivalis Schott, Eudianthe Cceli-rosa Fenzl, E. Corsica Fenzl, and E. 

 lata Fenzl. 



The definitions of the proposed subgenera of Silene are here 



Subgenus I. Gastrosilene. — Calyx 10-vel 20-nervius, nervis 

 reticulato-venosis, vesicarie inflatus et post anthesin semper ampli- 

 atus, fructifer a capsula remotus. Species perennes. 



Subgenus U. Conosilene.— Calyx 20-30-vel 60-nervius, nervis 

 haud anastomosantibus, fructifer e basi ampliata ad apicem versus 

 attenuatus. Herbae annuse. 



Subgenus III. Eusilene.— Calyx semper 10-nervius, vel evenius 

 vel nervis anastomosantibus, nunquam vesicarie inflatus, fructifer 

 autem supra carpophorum saepe a capsula maturescente distentus. 

 Inflorescentia valde varians. Species annuse, biennes, vel perennes. 



FIRST RE COEDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



William A. Clabke, F.L.S. 

 (Continued from vol. xxxi., p. 308.) 



Anagallis arvensis L. Sp. PI. 148 (1753). 1538. " Anagallis 

 .... anglice Pympernell." — Turn. Lib. " It groweth commonly 

 amonge the come. The male hath a crimsin floure & the female 

 hath a blewe floure."— Turn. Names, A viij (1548). 



A. caerulea Schreb. Spic. Fl. Lips. 5 (1771). 1548. Turn. 

 Names (see last species). " I found the female with blewe flowers in a 

 chalkie corne fielde in the way from Master William Swaines house 

 of Southfleete [Kent] to Long fielde downes."— Ger. 494 (1597). 



A. tenella L. Mant. ii. 386 (1771). 1633. " I first found it 

 Anno 1626 in the Bishopricke of Durham, and in two or three 

 places of Yorkshire . . . also on the bogges upon the heath neare 

 Bnrntwood [Brentwood] in Essex."— Johnson, Ger. em. 630. 



Centunculus minimus L. Sp. PI. 116 (1753). 1724. "In 

 pascuo ante vicum Chisselhurst loco subudo (in a dale just before 

 the Common)."— Dillenius in E. Syn. hi. Addend, (facing p. 1). 



Samolus Valerandi L. Sp. PI. 171 (1753). 1629. "Ex 

 Saltmarsh habuimus Anagallidem aquaticum terfciam, Lob."— 

 Johns. Kent, 9. Cf. Merc. Bot. p. 19. 



• Bull. Soc. Bat. France, xxxiii. (1886), pp. 417—428. 



