AAQ) Ill. SEGREGATES AND 
localities assigned to this latter now being ‘ Damp places in the 
Lake district”; but the locality of Cheddar was not repeated for it. 
Now, as Cheddar, in Somerset, is not a damp place in the Lake 
district, we had only the name of fleauoswm left for the plants 
of Cheddar; and yet Smith’s majus, pre-eminently a plant of 
the Lake district, was still made synonymous with fleawosum. 
Altogether, these were sufficiently puzzling emendations of the 
arrangements in former editions. 
In the fifth edition of the same ‘Manual’ (1862) we find still 
other changes; the same names being retained, but applied in a 
somewhat different manner. The four names there used were 
minus, flecuosum, Kochii, and sawatile. The two first of these 
four specific names apparently were applied nearly as before ; 
Kochit supplanted the name of sawatile (Bab. ed. 8, 4) for the 
species of “damp places in the Lake district”; and another 
sawatile (of Schleicher) was brought in, and the name bestowed 
upon a species of “stony places” in England exclusively. From 
which of the three species in edition fourth this new sawatile was 
split off, the Author of the ‘ Manual’ did not explain to its readers. 
In ‘English Botany’ (1863) and in the sixth edition of the 
‘ Manual’ (1867) the same four segregates last above named are 
adhered to. In the latter work they stand as so many equivalent 
species. But in the former work, the flewuosum figures only with 
the equivocal dignity uf a ‘“sub-species” under minus, and it 
is given as made up from parts of minus (Sm.) with parts of 
majus (Sm.) clubbed together. These various variatious, whether 
approximating nearest to the sublime or to the ridiculous, may be 
epitomized historically in this fashion :— 
Ray, 1696. Two species, minus and montanum. 
Hudson, 1762. One species, minus with var: montanuin. 
Smith, 1800. Two species, minus and majus. 
Babington, 1851. Four species, minus, flexuosum, sexatile, majus. 
Ditto, 1856. Threespecies, minus, flexuosum, sawatile no. 1. 
Ditto, 1862. Four species, minus, flecuosum, Kochii, saxa- 
tile no. 2. 
English Botany, 1863. Four species, minus (including the two 
subspecies eu-minus and flecuosum), Kochii, 
saxatile no. 2 (this last not quite certainly a 
full species). 
