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have been removed within the last twelve months, or some light 

 gained, I have thought it best to communicate such information as 

 I could before the commencement of another season in the field. 



We must, I think, be anxious, all of us, to keep down and, where 

 it may be possible, reduce the number of our Eubi "species." The 

 mainly artificial character of our present groups is answerable for 

 some of our difficulty here. In two instances I have already ven- 

 tured to disregard the limits imposed by those groups ; — I mean, in 

 my treatment of R. pulcherrimus and /,'. anglosa.ronicus. The name 

 R. pulcherrimus, as applied in my "Essay," covers a series of forms, 

 ranging from a state which is practically eglandular and non- 

 aciculate to one which is highly glandular and aciculate in st. and 

 pan. Here I have not proposed giving even a varietal name, as I 

 could detect no marked difference in the several plants beyond the 

 presence or virtual absence of gland-tipped organs and acicles. 

 I should now extend the application of the name yet further, so as 

 to make it include the slightly varying whitish-flowered eglandular 

 form referred to as " a. R. ? dumosus Lefv." In the case of R. anglo- 

 saxonicus I have given varietal names to two plants, "b. raduloides" 

 and "c. setulosus," which differ from the type with which they are 

 associated in several obvious particulars other than their stronger 

 armature, and yet in their general features so decidedly recall it as 

 to justify the arrangement. Following the same lines, I now pro- 

 pose to remove R. oigocladus Muell. & Lefv. from its place as a 

 "species" at the end of the Bellardiani to what seems its more 

 natural position as a strongly marked var. under R. wucronatut 

 Blox. ; and also to place as a var. under R. Gelertii Frider. a 

 striking plant from Cheshire and Scotland which Dr. Focke 

 considers to be very near to R. adenanthus Boul. & Gillot, and 

 which seems hardly to differ from Gelertii, except in the Radul<c- 

 like clothing of the stem. I had intended suggesting "adenanthus 

 Boul. & Gillot?" as a varietal name for this, but the Bev. E. F. 

 Linton has now shown me the Norfolk plant which he proposes 

 distinguishing as var. criniger, and they are practically identical 

 with those I have referred to from Cheshire and Scotland. I there- 

 fore gladly adopt his new name in preference to the doubtfully 

 correct adenanthus. My Cheshire specimens were collected by 

 Capt. A. H. Wolley Dod at Edge Park in 1892, and the Scottish 

 by the Bev. E. S. Marshall in the same year between Fowlis and 

 Dingwall, E. Boss. Like the Norfolk criniger, they differ from 

 typical Gelertii in having their st. far more hairy, as well as more 

 plentifully supplied with small bristles and stalked glands, and also 

 in having frequently a more gradually acuminate term. It. R. 

 Gelertii seems more variable with us than it is in Schleswig, but 

 I agree with Mr. Linton in thinking that some of his Norfolk 

 cpecimens cannot reasonably be kept apart from the typical plant. 



If. has been pointed out to me that the use of an initial capital 

 letter in the case of specific names derived from places* though so 

 frequently found in the best authors, is inconsistent with the 

 general use, as shown, e. g., in Polygala austriaca and Gentita 

 anglica. It seems desirable therefore to remove such inconsistency 



