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THE MERTON CATALOGUE

A LIST OF CHROMOSOME NUMBERS OF
BRITISH PLANTS
SUPPLEMENT No. i
BY J. P . RUTLAND
John Innes Horticultural Institution, Merton, London

(With 19figuresin the text)

DICOTYLEDONS 102. TRIFOLIUM
resupinatum L. I4§ Wipf 1939
RANUNCXn.,ACEAE agrarium L. 14
dubium Sibth. 28
6. RANUNCULUS 104. LOTUS
Ficaria L. (Fig. I) angustissimus L. 12II Rutland num.nov.
tenuis Waldst. & Kit. 12 Dawson 1941 (Native
material)
CRUCIFERAE Uspidut Desf. 24 Rutland num.nov.
29. NASTURTIUM
palustre DC 32 Scheerer 1939
CRASSULACEAE
CISTACEAE 134. SEDUM
rosea Scop. 22 Levan 1933
57. HELIANTHEMUM rosea var. elongatum 22 Tayohuko & Matsuura
guttatum Mill. 2ot Bowden 1940 1939
potifotium Mill. 20 „ 135. S E M P E R V I V U M
canum Baumg. 22 ,, tectorum L . 72 Rutland num.nov.

PORTULACACEAE
75. CLAYTONIA HALORAGACEAE
perfotiata Donn 36 Rutland num.nov. 138. MYRIOPHYLLUM
atternifotium DC. 14 Scheerer 1939
TAMARICACEAE
77. TAMARIX ONAGRACEAE
gattica L. 24 Bowden 1924
142. EPILOBIUM
palustre L. 36 Rutland num.nov. -
GERANIACEAE
88. OXALIS
corniculata L. 24 Rutland num.nov. UMBELLIFERAE
153. SMYRNIUM
RHAMNACEAE Otusatrum L. 22 Rutland num.nov. (Fig. 3)
156. APIUM
92. RHAMNUS inundatum Reichb. f. '»'»
22 Scheerer 1939
Frangtda L. 20 Rutland num.nov. nodiflorum Reichb. f. 22
•158A. PETROSELINUM Rutland num.nov. (Fig. 2)
crispum Nym. 22
LEGUMINOSAE 172. OENANTHE Rutland num.nov.
99. TRIGpNELLA sitaifotia Bieb. 22
Rutland num.nov.
ornithopodioides DC. 18 Rutland num.nov.
100. MEDICAGO
fcdcata L. 16, 32! Ledtngham 1940 CAPRIFOLIACEAE
101. MELILOTUS
altissima Thuill. 16 Scheerer 1939 193. LONICERA
Wipf 1939 Perictymemtm L. 18 Rutland num.nov.

• The Mediterranean variety calthaefotius had 2n=4S (Rutland). (Material kindly supplied by Prof. P. A. Buxton.)
+ Chiarugi (1925) gives 271=48.
X Tetrapfoid previously reported by Tschechow (1933).
§ Bleier (1925) is probably wrong in reporting 2n = i6. ,.
II Tschechow & Kartashowa give 2n=i2 and 24; but Dawson (1941) from a study of numerous examples regards this
species as diploid only.
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COMPOSITAE 334. C L I N O P O D I U M
204. SOLIDAGO vulgare L. 20 Scheerer 1939
Virgaurea L. 18 338. NEPETA
Scheerer 1939 Cataria L. 36? Sugiura 1940
207. ERIGERON hederacea Trev. 18
acris L. 18 Rutland num.nov. hederacea Trev. 36 Rutland n u m . n o v .
211. GNAPHALIUM (Fig. 13)
supinum L. 28 Rutland num.nov. (Fif. 6) 342. MARRUBIUM
212. INULA vulgare L. 34 Rutland nuin.nov.
Helenium L . 20* Rutland unpub. (Fig. 8) 343. STACHYS
crithmoides L. 18 Rutland num.nov. (Fig. 7) lylvatica L. c. 66 Scheerer 1939
217. DIOTIS 345. L E O N U R U S
maritima Hook. 18 Rutland num.nov. (Fig. 5) Cardiaca L. 18 Rutland n u m . n o v .
220. MATRICARIA
suaveolens Buch. 18 Rutland num.nov. (Fig. 4) 347. BALLOTA (Fig. 10)
222. T A N A C E T U M Rutland num.nov.
vulgare L. 18 Rosenberg IQ05 nigra L. 22
Rutland unpub. (Fig. 11)
348. T E U C R I U M
225. PETASITES Scorodonia L. 34 Rutland num.nov.
albus Gaertn. 60 Scheerer 1939 349. AJUGA
227. SENECIO Chamaepitys Schreb. 28 Rutland num.nov.
integrifotius Clairv. 48 Rutland num.nov. (Fig. 9)
247. SONCHUS (Fig. 12)
oleraceus L. em. Hill 32t Rutland unpub.
asper Hill 18 Rutland num.nov. ILLECEBRACEAE
353. HERNIARIA
CAMPANULACEAE glabra L. 18 Scheerer 1939
254. CAMPANULA
patuld L. 20 Rutland num.nov, POLYGONACEAE
255. LEGOUSIA
. hybrida (L.) Del. 20 Rutland num.nov. 366. RUMEX
Acetosella L. var. 28** Ixive 1940
tenuifolia
VACCINIACEAE
256. VACCINIUM EUPHORBIACEAE
Myrtiltits L. Rutland num.nov.
373. EUPHORBIA
Cyparissias L. 20 Rutland num.nov.
ERICACEAE exigua L. 24 „
Lathyris L. 20 Bowden 1940
262. ERICA
mediterranea L. —i
SALICACEAE
389. POPULUS
APOCYNACEAE nigra L. var. italica 38 Suto, cit. Matsuura 1939
-283. VINCA
major L. 92S Pannocchia-Laj 1938
Bowden 1940 MONOCOTYLEDONS
Rutland unpub.
minor L. 46§ Pannocchia-Laj 193S ORCHIDACEAE
[and two colour Bowden 1940 399. NEOTTIA
varieties] Rutland unpub. Nidus-avis Rich. 36tt Barber 1941
404. CEPHALANTHERA
Srandiflora Gray 36 Barber 1941
GENTIANACEAE 405. EPIPACTIS
288. GENTIANA latifotia All. 38 Barber 1941
Pneumonantbe 26 Scheerer 1939 406. ANACAMPTIS
290. NYMPHOIDES pyramidalis Rich. 36 Barber 1941
pdUxtum Britton & Rendle 54 Scheerer 1939 409. ACERAS
anthropophora 'BT. Barber 1941
410. OPHRYS
SCROPHULARIACEAE musdfera Huds. 3 Barber 1941
apifera Huds. 36 Barber 1941
314. SCROPHULARIA
nodosa L. 36 Scheerer 1939
316. LIMOSELLA LILIACEAE
aquatica L. 40II Blackburn & Vachell 1939
319. VERONICA 445. PARIS
humifusa Dickson 14 Rutland num.nov. quadrijotia L. 2o§§ Darlington and La Cour
icutalata L. 18 Scheerer 1939
NAIADACEAE
LABIATEAE 462. POTAMOGETON
332. ORIGANUM crispus L. c. 52 Scheerer 193O
vutgare L. 30 Rutland num.nov. pectinatus L. c. 78
(Fig. 14) perfoliatus L. c. 52IIII
• Confirms Tongiorgi (103s).
t Marchal (1920) gives also 271 =-=16.
i E. cornea, the continental form of this species, has 2M = 24-(Hagerup, 1928).
I Scharhoff & Mailer (1937) give for major 2n = j6, for mivor 271 = 32. Both these counts must be wrong
II Svensson (1928) gives 271 = 36.
5 Bushnell (1936) gives 2?i = 32; probably an error.
•• Ono (1930) gives 2 « = 4 2 .
tt Agrees with Russian material.
it Senianinova (1925) gives 2n=22-24.
§§ In the former list wrongly given as 10.
nil Wisniewska (1931) gives 2»=<:. 4 8 .
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Fig. I. R. Ficaria, x = 6. (See p. 210.)

2 3
Figs. 2-3. Umbelliferae, a:= 11. (See p. 210.)

8
Figs. 4-9. Compositae, x = 7, 9, 10, 12. (See p. 211.)
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10

11

12

14
Figs. 10—14. Labiateae, x=%, 7, 9, i i . (See p. 211.)

.-fh

19
Figs. 15-19. Gramineae, x = 7. (See p. 214.)
 214 J. p. RUTLAND
CYPERACEAE 500. AVENA
pubescens Huds. 14* Carson & Fyfe unpub.
471. ERIOPHORUM 501. ARRHENATHERUM
polystachyon L. 58 H^ansson 1928 tuberosum Schultz 28 Rutland num.nov.
476. CAREX (Fig. 19)
fiaxm L. 60 Wahl 1940 514A. P U C C I N E L L I A
canescens L. var. disjuncta 54 fasdcutata Bickn. 28 Rutland num.nov.
diandra Schrank. 60 Heilbom 1939 (Fig 17)
paradoxa Willd. 64 rupestris Fern. & Weath. 42 Rutland num.nov.
(Fig. 16)
GRAMINEAE 515. FESTtJCA
{Vidpia) ambigua Le Gall. 28 Maude lg40
489. POLYPOGON 516. BROMUS
littoralis Sm. 28 Rutland num.nov, secatinus L. I4t Nielsen 1939
(Fig. 18) commutatus Schrad. 56
491. GASTRipiUM
ventricosum Schinz & Rutland num.nov.
Thell. (Fig. is)
* Kattermann (1934), B"«.>
gives ^ " - - 6 (see Tischler 1936). , .. ,
t A tetraploid, 8 previously reported by Avdulov (1931) and Nakajima (1931).
28,

Notes, (i) My new counts here recorded are all from British material.
(2) All figures are magnified 3000 diameters from Flemming—gentian violet
preparations.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am indebted to Mr E. M. Marsden Jones, Mr H. N. Barber and Miss B. Schafer

for many plants, and to Dr W. B. Turrill for assistance with the nomenclature.

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