226 EPILOBIUM DURLEI J. GAY, A NEW(?) ENGLISH PLANT. 
Duriai, and (so far as these most experienced observers see without 
a special study of the group) the match is perfec 
I therefore say that #. Duriai J. Gay is an English Ang But 
I have, during the summer and ek ug up many hundred 
examples of FE. montanum L., in a broad sense, in various counties, 
and in various soils; and I have looked through the dried materia 
= the Herbaria of Kew, the British Museum, and pets Watson. 
I am strongly of opinion, with all deference to such a monographer 
as Haussknecht, that all this F. ve ag E. 8s ytrasiciaes and FE. 
Duriai is one species; and that Bentham was right in maintaining 
that the character of stolons or taetoust estival or i is not 
absolute in the genus Hpilobium. This is a much more important 
question than geo et has i . its Flora one more doubtfull 
distinct species. mee on it by soar A eo OT oat 
characters given by the a maine ‘ccibeore § or oe ji 
in his printed but unpublished account of E. es dingndnce the 
species as follows, inter alia :—‘‘ Radix achat caule stricto, 
simplici tereti, pubescente, foliis rudimentalibus imbricatis basi 
quasi squamato; foliis inferioribus oppositis sessilibusque, superiori- 
bus quandoque alternis et petiolulatis.’’ 
n the accompanying osha J. Gay says FH. Duriai differs 
roa E. montanum, ‘“‘statura dimidio minore, 5-10-unciali; caule 
simplici non ramoso; satis collo stolonifero ; foliis inferioribus 
sessilibus non petiolulatis; petalis majoribus (4 lin. longis) saturate 
violaceis, non roseis carneisve.”’ Also J. Gay repeats in conclusion 
the character that the <7 ss. baa leaves persist during flowering 
the succeeding year, whereas the stem of E’. montanum is ascending 
naked at base (at that time). I ae only remark on all this that 
it applies most accurately to J. Gay’s own material, and equally 
teres to much of ‘my ue plant, but that a ats from the same 
mpshire locality ve o not agree, and 
eh appear to me to offer a complete iieikion to typic 
montanum 
Mons. Barbey figures the type of J. Gay, and quotes his 
characters; but does not say how the plant differs from F. 
montanum, nor does he express any opinion as to its specific 
distinctness therefrom 
; too Consp. Fl. Europ. pp. 247, 248, diagnoses the species as 
ce) 
+ Hybernaculum e = autumnalibus sessilibus vel sub- 
sessilibus constan: 
K. Montanum 
+t iad te os & Salsas eestivalibus (synanthiis 
E. Dori: J. Gay = F, silvaticum Boreau, Sapa 4 47. 
On this I remark, ester $e English £. 
no stolons under the gr wrt er ; : chant, es ot dons or 
rosettes with green aire op ter are formed just above the 
ground. Such can be well seen in — ett Watson’s serene 
and, i experience, a very rare form 
In the hundreds of E. montanum which I dug up Gas summer, 
