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Crcpis rigens. Yet there would still remain tlie fact that the 
added P is also adverse to his MS. ascription of a Madeiran 
origin to his original Kew- Garden spec, of Crejris rigens itself. 
And indeed, as it is certain that at some time or other he had 
recognized himself the identity of his two sp., by writing on 
the first sheet, marked at the back “ Madeira Fr. Masson 1777 ” 
(his original Hypocliceris strigosa MSS.), “ Est Crepis rigens II. 
Kew.,’’ and on the second sheet (his original Crepis rigens ) 
“ Hypocliceris strigosa Sol.,” so it is more probable than other- 
wise that this recognition was prior to or simultaneous with 
the publication (1789) of the H. Kew. from his entire omission 
in that work of all reference by name to his Hyp. strigosa, in- 
dicating that he was already aware of its identity with his 
Crepis rigens. And then his reference of the latter pi. in the 
Hort. Kew. simply to the Azores, which is in any case in op- 
position to the Kew-Garden evidence for Madeira, would be in 
fiat contradiction also to the habitat “ Madeira ” inscribed at 
the back of his Hyp. strigosa , and would suggest that previously 
to the publication of the Hort. Kew. he had found reason to 
set aside both the less certain information derived from Kew 
Gardens about Crepis rigens and the apparently more sure 
evidence for Madeira from the sheet itself of Hyp. strigosa. 
But indeed, independently of these considerations, Solander’s 
very particular and pointed reference in his MSS. above quoted 
of this Hyp. strigosa to the A 9 ores, with even its vernacular 
Azorian Portuguese name added, in the face of its Madeiran 
superscription, may almost alone suffice to prove him to have pos- 
sessed some very distinct and certain evidence, superseding in 
his judgment that of the inscription “ Madeira Fr. Masson 
1777 ” on the original sheet itself, and accounting also for his 
inserted? after “Madeira” and “Obs.” on Crepis rigens in 
pencil, “nullum specimen siccum a Masson missum,” in cor- 
rection of the “Habitat in Madeira, Fr. Masson” before 
ascribed on the same page of his MSS. to this Kew Garden 
spec. 
On the whole, then, it would be rash without further evidence 
to admit M. rigens (Ait.) to a place in the Mad. Flora, though 
botanists may be perhaps encouraged to look diligently for it. 
If found, it will be immediately distinguished by its plumose 
