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ON THE BRITISH FORMS OF RHINANTHUS. 
By Rev. E. 8. Marswatt, M.A., F.L.S. 
Dr. Jacos von Sterneck, of Trautenau, Bohemia, was good 
enough last year to soapy the yellow a in my herbarium— 
comparativ ely few, as I have not made a special study of them, 
though fairly iopucosatinneds edpavialls of the Scottish alpine plants. 
reference-numbers are stated in all cases where they exist. He 
also very kindly gave me a copy of his Monographie der Gattung 
Alectorolophus (Vienna, 1901, Alfred Holder), a detailed study of 
which has afforded the chief materials for this 
he only British collection revised by our sshd before publi- 
—_ was _ of Mr. G. C. Druce, fortunately a rich and varied 
e. ‘ e has given a summary of the determinations in the 
prinia of Scottish Natural cg, y and the Irish Naturalist, but 
without pci much into det 
appea 
especially i in the case of the North qneneen and West Asiatic barnes, 
Mig are still ste pe dog know 
gard nclature, Dr. von ” Ste rmeck’s views are not 
likely a receive angel ified acceptance. The generic name Khinan- 
thus is rejected on quite arbitrary grounds. Fistularia L. (1785), 
I tein i 
ou 
seded by Rhinanthus L. (1787); and this was adhered to in the 
Species. Plantarum (1758). Dr. von Sterneck maintains that it 
cannot be used only for a part of the collective ee of the 
Linnean species having since been referred to 
ivum. ac 
rdingly prefers Alectorolophus, borrowed from Haller (1742) by 
Allion ni (1785). Even here he is not consistent; for the original | 
A, hirsutus All. is needteasty supplanted by the new (1895) and 
clumsy name A. Alectorolophus Sterneck. Moreover, this generic 
change is made notwithstanding the statement in Chabert’s Etude, 
andolle de me donner son avis. 
Pp 9) :-—** J’ai pri 
Aprés avoir étudié la question il m’a répondu: *‘ suivi 
10: ‘avait auc cit, selon régles actuelles, de 
ment le d 
remplacer en 1742 par Alectorolophus (de Pline) le nom pests 
Cris 
an avait été donné en 1787 par Linné (dans son Genera) au 
Galli de Biv inus.’ Je conserverai done le nom de geste 
shall quote our author’s enclature gin with, for conveni- 
ence, this is not to be taken as an 7 ueara with his conch : 
The plan of the book is to treat (Sippen), 
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