ON THE BRITISH FORMS OF RHINANTHUS 293 
and oe in Scotland; also in herb. Delessert (Geneva) 
from Thirsk. Mr. Beeby rec cords it from the Shetlands, and Mr, 
. EK. Salmon from Inchnadamph, W. peer: (the latter plant 
I have examine was present). It is found as far sout 
Somersetshire ; there are specimens in a urray’s 
en ago, and believe to be rightly named. 
Fries — the species, in Nov. "Fi. Suec. Mantissa, iii. pp. 60-2 
(1843), which Dr. von Sterneck has apparently overlooked, se 
three Habe “Var. platypterus, scaber, seminum ala lata, semen 
subsequante ay Riese See subpubescens, ala seminum angustis- 
sima’’; and ‘‘a , Sublevigatus, seminibus exalatis, arillo in 
ambitu biobeaeate vitindae oben pan sehen rugoso-striato.”’ 
Babington records the first of these from Hastings. Fries, who 
plainly sir it as the type, states that it is partial to ‘“ prata 
fertiliora et nemora’’—just such situations as Sterneck assigns to 
és wilosibewibkiohd ”’); whereas he found stenopterus ‘*in 
i 
argillaceo et calcared. Hoc vero aliis locis aliter se habere potest.” 
Now the broad wing of platypterus (not ree we in the mono- 
graph) is oe in the genus, all forms of which are described as 
having shortly-winged seeds a mm.), with the sabe of two 
wingless ape species—A. apterus and A. buccalis. A. uccalis = R. 
original Sak. pe mi 
the more rasta as rea again a that it grows chiefly 
‘in provinciis macris montanis et. occidentalibus”; the Danish 
(Jutland) specimens m: mentioned in the rmionogeaph thus forming a 
connecting link with the wees ool. Fries also states that 
Sonder = it to him from N. 
n Sterneck writes (p. 70): _ ne England [this evidently 
irae Scotland), whence I have es ane specimens, .4. major 
seems to occur in a rather pec Pe the specimens are 
‘somewhat more bushy, the leaves ace r and serait 
pcre thus they bear a ey cons nerrioacs resemblance to A 
described ionk Hun 
A. minor Wimm. & Grab. (1829); 4 sgn ade Wallr. (1822). 
R. minor Ehrh. (1791); R. Crista-galli_L. (1758), pro parte, It 
will be noticed that Sterneck has rejected the original name under 
Alectorolophus. 
«Ouchis 10-50 em. altus, viridis aut nigro-striolatus, alternatim 
parce hirsutus internodiis elongatis, simplex vel ramosus, ramis 
