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7. Sintenis, Iter Trojanum (1883), No. 117, from Renkoli, in 
montosis, 8 v, named by Aseherson O. stellulatum W. Ur. 
8. Assoc. Pvreneenne; sine numero, from Smyrna, “ Burnabat, 
in glariosis,” leg. H. Retry, 28 iv. 1900, is the very strigose form of 
O. pallidum often to be seen in herbaria from the neighbourhood 
of Smyrna, and identical with O. scaberrimuni Boiss. et Heldr. in 
Heldreich’s exsicc. of 1815 from Islarta, the ancient Baris, in Pisidia. 
These two examples, and others like them, are of the greatest interest, 
for they are identical with the only specimen of O. montanum in 
herb. Sibthorp, which unfortunately is sine loco, but as it is a form 
which does not occur in “ Creta et in Peloponeso,” as Smith erro¬ 
neously states in FI. Gr. Prodr. i. p. 121, nor perhaps elsewhere in 
Europe, though there are some approximations in Greece; and as 
Sibthorp stayed some time at Smyrna, there can be no doubt that 
he obtained it in that vicinity. This, in fact, is the true O. montanum 
Sibth., as I have maintained in my “ Piante Italiane critiche o 
rare,” which Smith so hopelessly confused with Italian “ echioides' 1 
(Oolumna’s plant), and with localities which belong to O. erectum . 
Halacsy seems to have been conscious of the confusion, as the name 
montanum is not mentioned in the Conspectus Florae Grcecce. There 
is, indeed, another specimen of the greatest historical interest that is 
identical with these; it is one of those which represent O. echioides 
in the Linnean Herbarium, also sine loco. There will be more to 
say about this specimen on another occasion. 
In what precedes, Boissier’s name Onosma pallidum has been 
quoted. This was described in 1849 in his Diagn. PL Orient, no. xi, 
p. 112. It is particularly characterised by pale corollas, very strigose 
spreading indumentum, and leaves shorter and broader than in the 
forms which he at that time grouped under O. stellulatum , by 
which name he did not mean the true stellulatum W. K., of 
Croatia, but a complex of many forms which would better have been 
called 0. echioides L., meaning the echioides a, exclusa var. /3, of 
Linnaeus. But O. pallidum itself is a complex of (1) a plant 
from Smyrna and elsewhere in western Anatolia, which is O. 'mon¬ 
tanum Sibth. herb., and to which alone the above characters and the 
full description are perfectly applicable; (2) a Constantinople plant, 
which is almost certainly O. proponticum Aznavour, and quite dis¬ 
tinct ; and a Greek plant, collected by Spruner in Boeotia, the exact 
position of which cannot now be discussed. 
In the Flora Orientalis, in a fit of desperation—for gigantic 
works of that kind must be completed without waiting to clear up 
the more difficult and critical groups of forms ; a procedure of which 
there are many examples, under the stress of sheer necessity, in the 
Flora of British India —Boissier lumps a number of very different 
plants under the specific name of stellulatum, including his pallidum 
as var. /3, with a number of new localities, and with O. trapezun - 
tinum Huet, really a distinct form, thrown in. Halacsy, Consp. FI. 
Graec. ii. p. 334, revises the specific conception of Boissier’s pallidum, 
but calls it O. echioides L. Then in the Supplement (1908) p. 76, 
he criticises a certain name, O. Javorkce, that had been proposed by 
Simonkai in 1906, as “ supervacaneum, nam si O. echioides re vera 
