as an undoubted native of Devonshire by Hudson, Stackhouse, 

 and other early writers on these plants. Hudson says of it, " in 

 Devomdi passim," and Stackhouse gives "Devonshire and S.W. 

 coast " as the station, but adds, " This species is rare, and has 

 occasioned mistakes among our English botanists, who, after the 

 example of Gmelin, have given it the trivial name of F.fceniculaceus, 

 which appears, by the Linnaean herbarium, to be a very different 

 species," &c. Both these authors quote Gmelin's figure, which, 

 Turner observes, " is so characteristic " of his F. barbatus " as 

 to take away all doubts as to the species." The last-named 

 author, however, adds, " How far F. barbatus is really entitled 

 to a place in the British Flora I own I entertain much doubt. I 

 never saw a specimen gathered on our shores ; and in Devon- 

 shire, where Hudson is stated to have gathered it, I have been 

 fortunate enough to enjoy the advantage of correspondents, who 

 would have been little likely to have left it unnoticed." This 

 was written upwards of thirty years ago, since which time no 

 part of England has been more zealously or more successfully 

 explored (as these volumes bear ample evidence) than the coasts 

 of Devonshire and Cornwall, but no one has met with a scrap of 

 this plant ; wherefore I fear it is but too evident that it has no 

 claim to a place in this work. 



Fig. 1. Cystoseiea barbata; branch: — the natural size. 2. Dichotomous 

 ramulus : — magnified. 3. A receptacle and air-vessel : — rather more mag- 

 nified. 



