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spermum aquilegifolium. The Connemara Heath becomes Boretta 

 Daboecia (L.) Baillon. The genera Erythraea and Chlora are wrongly 

 used for Centaurium and Blackstonia. The very compact littoral 

 form of perfoliata is the var. compacta Lange. Garsault's trivials are 

 occasionally used, e.g., Dipsacus sativus Garsault. The Flora ends 

 with the Compositae in which our Meadow Thistle is called Cirsium 

 anglicum DC, and 5 varieties are given of Crepis taraxacifolia. 



Prodrome de la Flore Corse. John Briquet. Tome ii., 

 partie i., Papaveraceae-Leguminosae iv., 409. 13 vignettes. Georg, 

 Geneva, 1913. 10 francs. The genera Glaucium "Adams" and 

 Cakile " Adams," which are probably misprints for Adans., were 

 first established by Hill in British Herbal, 1756. Under Papaver 

 Rhoeas M. Briquet rightly draws attention to the inadvisability of the 

 practice adopted by M. Fedde (PJlanzenreich) of treating the trifling 

 characters of hairs being patent or appressed as of systematic im- 

 portance. This character widely and artificially separates P. Rhoeas 

 from P. strigosum in Fedde's Monograph (see Rep. 228, 1912), whereas 

 in nature one appears to be only a variety or sub-variety of the other, 

 if indeed most of the plants so named are not hybrids of P. Rhoeas 

 and P. dubium. Under Fumaria capreolata there are sub-var. 

 albiflora Briq. = F. pallidiflora Jord. and a sub-var. speciosa Briq. = 

 F. speciosa Jord. F. media Bast, is a full species, and synonymous 

 with it is F. muralis Sond. Under it is var. confusa (Jord.) Hamm., 

 which Briquet says is of the Pugillus " et sp. auth." F. densiftora is 

 adopted rather than F. micrantha, and, like F. parviflora and F. 

 Vaillantii, kept as a distinct species. F. officinalis has as varieties 

 tenuiflora Fries (= F. Wirtgeni), genuina, and densiflora Pari. The 

 treatment of the plants in this critical genus illustrates the difference 

 in opinion which exists. Barbarea vulgaris has under it var. rivularis 

 Tourlet, var. silvestris Fries, and var. arcuata (Reichb.) The last, if 

 kept as a species as in The List of British Plants, is probably Barbarea 

 iberica (Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol., 680, 1809, under Cheiranthus) DC, a 

 much older trivial. I shall be content to call it sub-species iberica. 

 Roripa Scop, is used instead of Radicula Hill, which M. Briquet, 

 who doubtless sanctions Gloriosa L., says is not valid " parce qu'il 

 coincide avec un nom d'organe couramment employe et n'a pas ete 

 introduit avec des noms d'especes." Under it he puts Roripa 

 amphibia, but he makes no references to the sub-vars. indivisa (DC), 



