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EPILOBIUM DURIAI J. Gay, A NEW(?) ENGLISH 
PLANT 
By C. B. Crarxe, F.R.S. 
(Piate 307.) 
THE species Pl bie Duriei was founded, by name only, b 
J. Gay in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, v. 6 (1836), p. 223 (misprinted 128), 
as a split off from FE. montanum L. e Kew Herbarium ¢ — S, 
. Gay’s hand a 
proof of the diagnosis and de eaten = by J. Gay himself of E. 
Duriai, marked by J. Gay, “‘inéd.,” and apparently never published. 
One of the two wigintad Airgas of J. Gay (viz., the right-hand 
one of Durieu, n. 343, collected in Asturias, 17th July, 1836), is 
figured i in ai Epilobium, t. 14; _ other, left- co specimen, 
is figured Tab. 307, fig. 1. Barbe s figure shows the stolons 
(soboles pt seo of . nang rather too thick; and shows the 
stem nearly bare at base , the seales (folia innovatoria kata- 
phylloidea of Hausslaesht toe rmed on the stolon of the preceding 
summer are nearly rub off. It is important to note that, in the 
te han d specimen of the same — foundation Durieu n. 348, 
ese es are persistent, and — suberect stolons spring 
prt a gee of them. The seitnia istence of these scales into the 
next summer is seen in — of the saline NE of J. Gay, and 
is a characteristic of E. 
n 15th July, 1890, in woods 600 ft. above sea-level north of 
ee I was led to dig up a quantity of a small (8-15 in.) neat- 
looking /pilobium; the base of the stems was covered with the 
remarkably persistent kataphylloid leaves from the preceding year, 
and — were, on specimens at this date hardly in flower, alread 
pale stolons pushing ae — (as well - be ee een) these kata- 
phyla leaves nea g. 4). On matching these plants at 
xay’s type ve. peo they appeared to me identical 
vers pailidee At this date, EK. A L., which grew 
vente hard by, was larger, with larger leaves, less bright 
flowers, and had the base of ti the stems entirely bare of the kata- 
phylloid a es of the preceding yea 
On the 16th Sept. rg Ps I revisited the same spot, and dug up a 
spent ity or the same plant—of course Prono Bs in fruit; the kata- 
vation at Kew. 
E. ai inhabits the Pence and Switzerland, also the hills 
of C fe ‘Feano ce and t osges. I have shown some of my 
Andover material to ies J. J. Baker, Mr. . E. Brown, Mr. 
Nicholson, and Mr. Arthur Bennett, beside J. Gay’s type of E. 
Journan or Borany.—-Vou. 29. [Ave, 1891.] Q 
