No. 443-] 



MUTA TION IN PLANTS. 



In the first of these references Caspar Bauhin i 

 245 (1671) writes of an American evening primrc 

 name of Lysimachia hitea corniculata, as being a V 

 machia growing in the Garden at Padua in 16 19 ? 

 it was a pleasing plant and easy to propagate fron 

 second reference goes back to Hermann's Catalogues 

 on p. 396 he records a species of Virginian Lys 

 sulphur colored dowers as growing in the Garde 

 The third reference is to a plant with larger leav 

 flowers from the Altdorf Garden. In Jungerman 

 plautarum quae in liorto Medico Altdorphino repair 

 that a Lysimachia lutca /■'/. majoribus, adore Tabaci. 

 machia) Vhginiana lutca Delphinium quoruudum, w 

 the old Bavarian garden at Altdorf in 1635 and the 

 again repeated in another Catalogus in 1640. It 

 ciently remarkable plant for Tournefort to note esp 

 Institutiones, and it might be inferred that this la 

 plant from Altdorf was the ancestor of (Enothcra 

 It would appear as if a form of what is generally c 

 (Enothera biennis L. with delicate sulphureous floi 

 the Leyden Garden and another with larger flowe: 

 den at Altdorf. Under the same name, Lysitnachit 

 an American evening primrose is said to have bee. 

 the Messina Garden in 1640 and it was known in ti- 

 the Hortus Blesensis in 1669. This last refe 

 quoted by Tournefort as his fourth species. Agar 

 same name oi L. corniculata Sherard speaks of it on 

 Schola Botanica as growing in the Paris Garden i: 

 presumably, descendents of the plants he saw wer> 

 lected by Abbe Pourret a century or so after and laf 

 type of the much discussed (E. grandiftora Lem. = 



mean^ in the Hortus Ctif, 



being plentiful in the fields of Holland. A tracing < 



