Melica cærulea pratensis annua vivipara pratensis Bromus mollis Avena fatua pubescens flavescens Lolium perenne Triticum repens caninum Scabiosa succisa arvensis Sherardia arvensis Galium saxatile verum Plantago major lanceolata coronopus Alchemilla arvensis vulgaris Myosotis Scorpioides Primula vulgaris veris Anagallis arvensis Campanula rotundifolia Jasione montana Viola canina tricolor Chenopodium album Hydrocotyle vulgaris Bunium fexuosum Heracleum Sphondylium holostea graminea Fragaria vesca sterilis Tormentilla officinalis Caltha palustris Ajuga reptans Glechoma hederacea Betonica officinalis Thymus serpyllum Prunella vulgaris Rhinanthus Crista-Galli Euphrasia officinalis Radiola palustris Cardamine hirsuta pratensis Polygala vulgaris Ononis arvensis Ulex europæus nanus Vicia sativa Ornithopus perpusillus Trifolium repens pratense procumbens minus Lotus corniculatus Medicago lupulina Leontodon Taraxacum Hieraceum Pilosella Tussilago Farfara Senecio vulgaris Bellis perennis Achillæa Millefolium Carex, about 30 species. List of Snowdon Plants, by William Wilson of Warrington, Esq. August 1828. PLANTÆ RARISSIME. Woodsia ilvensis, near Llyn y Cwn Ferns. Arabis hispida, Clogwyn Du'r Ar. Hyperborea, Clogwyn dhu. y Garnedd. Saxifraga cæspitosa, near Twll Cyathea (now Cistea) regia, ClegDu. wyn Du'r Ardhu. PLANTÆ FREQUENTIORES. Saxifraga nivalis, Wyddva summit, Epilobium alsinifolium, Cwm Gaseg, and near Twll Du. below Garned Llenelyn, and by Cerastium latifolium, Clogwyn y Aber Waterfall. Garacold. Rubus saxatilis, near Twll Du, also Aspidium Lonchitis. at Fachwere. Serratula alpina. Papaver Cambricum, near Llanber. Salix herbacea. ris. Epipactis orgifolia. Thalictrum minus, Clogwyn Du'r, Orchis albida, near Llanberris, be- Ardhu, and Twll Du. low Ffyanon Frech. alpinum, dv., and near Juncus triglumis. Twll Du. Sedum Fosterianum. Poa alpina, do., and Clogwyn y GarSaxifraga oppositifolia. nedd. Juniperus nanus, Glyder Fawr. -glauca, near Twll Du. Subularia aquatica, Lleyn Ogwen. Epilobium angustifolium, by Lleyn Isoetes lacustris, Ffyanon Frech. Chara gracilis, Lleyn Idwal. Carex rigida, Wyddfa summit. Alisma natans, between the lakes at atrata, below Ffynnon Frech. Llanberris. Draba incana, do. Lobelia Dortmanna, Llanberris Galium boreale, do., and near Twll Lakes, Lleyn Idwal, Du. Potentilla alpestris, Clogwyn y Gar- Arenaria verna, do. do. cold. Rosa villosa, near Llanberris. Asplenium viride, near Twll Du. Hieracium alpinum, near Lleyn y septentrionale. Cwm. Asplenium septentrionale, Hyperborea, and Hieracium alpinum, are so excessively scarce in Carnarvonshire, indeed almost extinct, that there is little probability' of obtaining them: : they are more plentiful in Scotland. The first of these is found chiefly on Arthur's Seat. y Cwm. The following are common on the mountains :Rhodiola rosea. Hieracium maculatum, near Twll Saxifraga hirta, platypetala. Du. Silene acaulis. Lycopodium alpinum. Gnaphalium dioicum. selaginoides. Saxifraga stellaris. Selago. Trollius Europæus. Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense. Asplenium trichomanes, Vaccinium Vitis-Idæa, Cistea fragilis, Ferns. Polypodium Dryopteris, Phegopteris, Rubus Chamæmorus is hardly to be found in Carnarvonshire. It is said to be common upon the Berwyn mountains, on the peaty bogs near the summits. XI.- A Commentary on the Second Book of the Herbarium Amboinense. By FRANCIS HAMILTON, M. D. (Read 22d January 1825.) See Vol. V. p. 307, et seq. CAP. I. II. CARYOPHYLLUM Tomi secundi, p. 1. t. i. In the Hortus Clifforlianus, Linnæus, in imitation of Tournefort, considered this as forming a peculiar genus, Caryophyllus ; and in the Species Plantarum this kind obtained the specific name aromaticus, (Burm. Fl. Ind. 122); but it was erroneously placed in the class Polyandria. M. Jussieu (Gen. Plant. 360) gave it a proper situation next to the Eugenia, from which it is only distinguished by the more elongated form of the calyx; but this M. Lamarck seems to think sufficient to distinguish it from the Eugenia (Enc. Meth. ii. 712), pointing out, however, some errors in the generic character given by Linnæus, which, if it had been correct, would have made the distinction more necessary. Willdenow, following Thunberg, joins this genus with the Eugenia, and gives it the specific name caryophyllata. With equal propriety he might have called the apple-tree Pyrus malata. If we set aside the form of the calyx, as insufficient for distinguishing the genus Caryophyllus, although adopted by the greatest luminaries of the science, it should be placed with the Calyptranthes ; for the petala fall off united, forming a little ball, which, as Rumphius expresses it, “ ad unum latus vergit,” leaving the stamina to form the flower. The elder Burman is quite correct in the synonyma added in his observation. To the Caryophyllus aromaticus the younger Burman (I. c.) joins, as a variety, the Caryophyllus Malabaricus (as he calls it) of Plukenet (Phyt. t. 274, f. 2), which is the Calyptranthes Jambolana or caryophyllifolia of Willdenow. See Commentary on the Jambosa Ceramica (H. A. i. 130), and Jambolana (H. A. i. 131), an error that escaped my notice in a former commentary. RAVENSARA, p. 10. Rumphius seems to have mistaken this for a kind of Caryophyllum, and gives an account from Dapper. Subsequent botanists have, however, ascertained that the plants have no affinity, and M. Sonnerat at first called it Ravensara aromatica, a name that should be retained, as far preferable to Agatophyllum, or Agathophyllum, which he afterwards adopted, although this has been followed by Jussieu (Gen. Plant. 471), Poiret (Enc. Meth. vi. 81), Willdenow (Sp. Pl. ii. 842), and Lamarck (Ill. Gen. t. 825); and although the latter (l. c. t. 404) had previously, by mistake, published a figure under the name Evodia, given to it by Gärtner (De Sem. ii. 100, t. 103, f. 2). But this could not be retained, as having been previously given by the younger Linnæus to a quite different genus. |