plant notes for 1913, etc. 



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indeed in itself an extraordinarily interesting one, and he has done 

 it justice. 



The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland. H. J. Elwes, 

 F.R.S., & A. Henry, M.A., Edinburgh : Privately printed. Vol. vii. 

 tt. 40, pp. 1653-1933. Index, etc., xxiv., 1935-2022. 1913. 



This, the final volume of an important work, includes descriptions 

 of the three Lime trees : — (1 ) T. cordata Mill, (the T. ulmifolia Scop, of 

 my List, which is also synonymous with T. parvifolia Ehrh.). The 

 authors reject and probably wisely, the use of this name 

 as suggested by Mr E. G. Baker (Journ. Bot. 318, 1898) 

 to designate the large-leaved Lime, because they hold the 

 specimen in Miller's Herb, has no evidence to prove it is the type. 

 Although they consider T. cordata a native species, they state they 

 have never seen a wild seedling. (2) T. platyphyllos Scop, they 

 consider is doubtfully native, but to the writer it appears to have 

 quite as good grounds for being indigenous as T. cordata. A var. 

 coralliva Solander is given with " twigs bright red " but no allusion is 

 made as to its original locality given on Bobart's authority in Ray's 

 Synopsis for Stokenchurch Woods. (3) T. vulgaris Hayne which 

 seeds freely at Oxford, they hold to be " now universally admitted to 

 be a hybrid between the two preceding species " and a form of it T. 

 pallida Wierzb. is said to occur. T. tomentosa Moench a native of 

 South Eastern Europe, and T. petiolaris J. D. Hook, are also given as 

 planted trees. Ilex Aquifolium L., of which a large number of so-called 

 varieties are given. Bvxus sempervirens L., " probably a true native 

 of England." Crataegus monogyna Jacq. is used in defiance of the 

 Linnean Herbarium where all the sheets of C. Oxyacantha are this 

 one styled form, and in defiance of the plan adopted under litmus 

 campestris which they quote from the Flora Anglica, in which work 

 this is the C. Oxyacantha L. The var. splendens Druce is referred to 

 var. maurianensis Didier in Bull Soc. Dauph. ix., 385, 1882. C. 

 Oxyacantha L. (C. oxyacanthoides Thuill.) in which forms, monstrosi- 

 ties, etc., as with the other species in this volume, are all described as 

 varieties. Salix Caprea L. with vars. orbiculata Kerner. elliptica 

 Kerner and sphacelata Wahl. S. caerulea Sm. is kept as a distinct 

 species as is S. vitellina L. Populus canescens Sm. is said to be native 

 and a true species ; under P. tremula, P. villosa is wrongly 

 attributed to Lange; under P. nigra, Lindley's variety viridis is 



