84 COL. W. MUNRO ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF 
have been avoided by a little care, and less anxiety for the creation 
of species. With many, a difference in locality seems to have 
been quite sufficient reason for giving a different specific name. 
This idea was not consequent on following in Linnzus's steps. In 
the comparatively few mistakes he has made, he has erred in the 
contrary direction, and placed in one species two or three very 
different plants. In another respect Linnzus’s example might have 
been well followed. He had great regard to the priority of names ; 
and although he was the first to apply specific ones, he has fre- 
quently,as his MSS. show, altered his own, because he found pre- 
vious terms, that would answer for specific and generic names, had 
been used by Gronovius, Scheuchzer, and others. Linnzus appears 
to have paid great attention to the Gramines. The specimens 
are in remarkably good condition, and in only two instances are 
they insufficient for absolute identification. . 
The numbers in the Herbarium refer to those used in the first 
edition of the ‘Species Plantarum,’ Linnæus’s own copy being very 
carefully marked by himself. In the following list I have used 
these numbers, underlining them, as was done by Linneus him- 
self, thus 1, 2, &c., to imply that the plant was actually in the Her- 
barium. When Linneus’s name remains unaltered in the best au- 
thors of the present day, I have marked the plant with ! after the 
name, as, 1. Lygewm Spartum, L.! I have carefully examined every 
grass in the Herbarium ; and in annexing the following list of names 
which I consider they should bear, I trust the list may be of some 
little use to botanists who are unable to consult the Herbarium itself. 
I have inserted all the names contained in the following works by 
Linneus :—first, all in the 1st edition of the ‘Species Plantarum,’ 
published 1753; then all extra in the 2nd edition, published in 
1762; then all in the two Parts of the ‘Mantissa’ (as far as 
p. 143 published in 1767, and from that to the end in 1771), which 
Linneus styles a supplement to the 6th edition of the * Genera 
Plantarum’ and to the 2nd edition of the ‘Species Plantarum.’ 
I have also included all published in a paper entitled * A. First 
and Second Century of Plants collected in various parts of the 
world, by Kalm, Osbeck, Loefling and others," in the 4th volume 
of the * Amenitates Academic’ (1759), and, further, all grasses 
contained in a paper on the plants of Jamaica sent by Browne, 
in the 5th volume of ‘Am. Acad.’ (1760). These, with the exception 
of about half-a-dozen described in the* Systema Nature,’ also in- 
cluded in this list, appear to me to comprise all the grasses for the 
nomenclature of which Linnzus is personally responsible. 
