THE FLORA OF LEICESTERSHIRE. 
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Callitnche vernu, L., is described as a species apart from 
platycarpa and hamulata, and is said to be common. This 
may be so if the aggregate species be intended, but if the 
restricted plant vernal is, Kuetz, be meant, then Leicestershire 
must differ from every other British county. There is no 
record of the occurrence of C. obtnscingula, Le Gall, which tbe 
writer has seen in the county, and which is probably not un¬ 
common in it. 
Bupleurum rotundifolium, L., is described as a chalk plant. 
This, although undoubtedly more frequent on limestone and 
chalk, is not as a cornfield weed restricted to such formations. 
My venerable friend the Kev. M. J. Berkeley found it in 
Northamptonshire, on limestone, and I believe considered it to 
have good claims to nativity there. Apium graveolens is said to 
be a sea-side plant, which is quite true, but there are also 
undoubtedly native localities inland, as in Oxon and Berks. 
Apium nodiflorum, L. ; Reiclib. fil. is the authority, not 
Linmeus. Koch’s variety repens is quoted for four localities ; 
but it is extremely improbable that this very rare British 
plant should occur in all of them. It is more likely to be the 
var. ochreatum. 
It is not quite correct to say that Coleman first distin¬ 
guished QSnanthe fhiviatilis from (E. Phellandrium. Dillenius 
described and figured it in Ray’s Synopsis, and in the 3rd 
edition of Withering it was described as var. 2. Coleman was 
the first botanist to give it a binomial term. 
The record of Galium syivestre, Poll., if the plant be 
correctly identified, is very interesting. Valerianella olitoria, 
Mcench, was first described as a Valerianella by Pollich. 
Hudson, not Linnaeus, is the authority for Dipsacus sylvestris. 
Symphytum tuberosum, L., if native, is an interesting record. 
Mentha piperita, lluds., was first described by Linnaeus in Ed. I. 
Spec. Plant, Calamintha officinalis, Moencli, should be C. 
montana, Lamk., as C. Nepeta, Clairv., should be C. parvifolia, 
Lamk.,and C.Acinos, Clairv., C. arvensis, Lamk., all these being 
described in Flor. Franc, by Lamarck previously to the names 
above quoted. Prunella is rather pedantically changed to 
Prunella, but, as Mr. Daydon Jackson points out, Prunella is 
the name we should use. 
Lamium intermedium, Fries, is recorded for one locality. 
Has this plant been verified by competent authority ? It is a 
great extension of the geographical range of the plant. 
Specific rank might as well have been given to Atriplex 
deltoidea, Bab., as to a hybrid thistle. Alnus glutinosa, L., was 
described by Linnaeus as a Betula; Gaertner was the first to 
call it an Alnus. 
