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dently examined many of them, — his determinations agreed 
very Closely with those of Dr. Ste 
uite agree with Mr. Marshall in 1 retaining the name Rhi 
anthus L. for the genus in py to that of iedlotolubies, 
whether cited from Haller or Allio 
he reason why Sterneck adopts Aléctorolophus Alectorolophus in 
preference 6 4. hirsutus All. is because the earliest specific name 
give 
that name, as suggested by Mr. Marika is the one we should 
adopt. I have collected it in France, &c., but do not think it will 
be rime. in Britain other than as a casual plant. 
HINANTHUS MAJOR Khrh. Butr. vy. 144 (1791). The Hddles- 
sean. oeality cited for Scotland is not north but south of the 
weed, being a parish close to the border of Beds and Bucks; but 
the locality i is in the latter county (24). The plant grew in chalky 
cornfields and doubtless will be found to extend into Beds. The 
STENOPHYLLUS Schur. Enum. Pl. Transs. 512. Pf Crista- 
gallt L. var. eng ce Koch, Six Fl. Sia: 544 (1837) and of 
my Fl. Berks. p. 884 (1897) where I said it was frequent in Scot- 
land. The se British specimen — h I know of was col- 
lected by me _ the Boat of Garten, E. Inverness (96), in 
1888, where I saw it growing the ‘roeedihiy year, i.e. three years 
before Messrs. Marshall and Hanbury gathered it at Tain, E. Ross 
ay 1890. I have it also from Dover, Littlestone-on-Sea, Kent 
(15) —— near Arundel, W. Sussex (13), 1899; Newbury, Berks, 
a 1891; in Wheniley Oxford (23) ; Winslow, &e., Bucks, 
gariff, Co. Cork Seo Lough Owel (W. R. Li nton sub nom. 
fh. Crista-galli var. fallax) 1895 ; Westmeath aes Co. 
ey gh ; Muckross, Killarney, 
Bt 2000 fet; is , 1500 feet; E. Rose (108), 1902 "is 
, oss (105), 1902) ; ; Kingussie, Easterness et ’ 
On. — E. Perth (89), 1899; Glen Nevis, Westerness 
- Drummonp-Havi Druce in Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. Seg “Fs p- 
a im. Shell-sand, Tain, as dn ibeh-levcl, 'E. Ross (106), 1902; 
