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Danica, ii, pl. 322 (1766) or to Sowerby’s English Botany, xxvii, pl. 
2001 (1819), for example, we find Epilobium alpinum L. represented 
as having purple flowers and various synonyms of E. alpinum prove 
to have had colored ones), nevertheless Haussknecht ' adopts the name 
lactiflorum for the white-flowered plant, describing it as having milk- 
white flowers (flores lactei), maintaining that the Linnaean E. alpinum 
was a species mixta consisting of two elements, a white-flowered form, 
represented by two specimens in the herbarium of Linnaeus, the one 
doubtfully, the other certainly identified, and the Chamaenirium 
alpinum alsines foliis Scheuch. questioningly cited in the Flora 
Lapponica, but unfortunately taken over into the Species Plantarum 
without any mark of interrogation. In this Haussknecht says that 
Scheuchzer first included E. anagallidifolium Lam. and E. alsine- 
folium Vill., but subsequently the latter only. In his monograph, 
under the caption of E. lactiflórum, Haussknecht says, “Nach Ansicht 
der meisten Scandinavischen Botaniker wäre in dieser Pflanze das 
eigentliche E. alpinum L. zu erblicken, weil dieselbe sowohl in Linné's 
Herbar als E. alpinum vorhanden ist und die Phrase in Fl. Lapp. und 
in Fl. Suec. nur auf diese gedeutet werden kann,’ abgesehen von den 
dabei gegebenen, zu E. anagallidif. gehórenden Citaten." Further on 
he continues, "In Annotat. pl. Scand. herb. L. 1849 sagte bereits 
Hartman, dass das E. alpinum im Herb. Linné vóllig mit der obigen 
Art [E. lactiflorum] übereinstimme." This is what Hartman says,’ 
E. “alpinum 7 (manu propr.) Nihilo, nisi floribus tribus (pro 
‘ duobus ^) foliis subdenticulatis (pro ' integerrimis"), atque caule paulum 
altiore a descriptione Linnaeana numeri 150 Fl. Lapp.* differens, hoc 
specimen optimum est E. alpinum Suecor. recent." 5 Nor under the 
other specimen referred to by Haussknecht does Hartman refer to the 
color, but says, “Haec est forma pumila biuncialis, etiam melius ac 
praecedens Florae Lapp. І. c. respondens...." At the end he adds the 
note, ^ Nullae aliae huius tribus, nec numeris 147 et 149 Fl. Lapp. re- 
spondentes, formae in herbario Linnaei adsunt." Under E. alpinum L. 
in his Handb. Skand. Flor. ed. XI, 263 (1879) Hartman cites Svensk. 
1], c. 
? It has already been noted that the Flora Lapponica calls the flowers “rubri,” the 
Flora Suecica not mentioning the color. 
3 Annotat. Plant. Scand, Herb. Linn. (Ex Act. Reg. Acad, Scient. Holm.) 76 (1849). 
4 See quotation of this description, above, p. 143. 
5 As we shall see presently E. alpinum Suecor, recent. is no clearer than any other E. 
alpinum, 
