19161 Fernald, — Some Notes on Spartina 179 



var. glabra Gray, Man. ed. 2, 552 (1856). S. striata maritima Scribn. 

 Mem. Torr. Bot. CI. v. 45 (1894). 



S. alterniflora, var. pilosa (Merrill), n. comb. S. glabra pilosa 

 Merrill, 1. c. 9 (1902); Hitchcock, 1. c. (1908), 



The name Dactylic maritima Curtis, Enum. Brit. (Jr. (1787) seems 

 to have received less attention than it merits. Linnaeus's /). cyno- 

 suroides (1753) L was to some extent a complex; consisting lor the 

 most part of the strictly American species now generally known as 

 Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Roth, but with the habitat "Lusitania" 

 appended to "Virginia, Canada," thus indicating that Linnaeus con- 

 fused with the American plants one of the European species. Slightly 

 later (175S), Loefling, in his Iter Hispanicum, published, without 

 mention of the Linnaean species, a very detailed description of another 

 Dactylis cynosuroidea* which from the description {"Vaginae. .. . 

 imbricatae post folia decidua per inferiorem culmum," etc.) is un- 

 questionably the D. striata Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 101 (1789), afterward 

 renamed Spartina stricta (Ait.) Roth (1802). Some post-Linnaean 

 English botanists took up Loefling's Dactylis cynosuroidea for the Sea 

 Cock's-Eoot Grass of Europe; for instance, Hudson in his Flora 

 Anglica.* And when Aiton's D. stricta was published in 1789, it was 

 as a substitute for the D. cynosuroidcs of Loefling and of Hudson, 

 which is clearly indicated by his citation of those authors alone, not 

 of Linnaeus. But a very similar publication, with equally definite 

 citations, was earlier effected by Curtis in 17S7, when he published 

 his Dactyl is maritima. Curtis's publication, under Dactylis, was in the 

 briefest possible form: "2. Maritima. //. 43. Cynosuroidcs. R. 

 393. 4 Sea." 4 Hut by inserting the expanded bibliographic citations, 

 as indicated by Curtis's explanation, it becomes: 



2. Maritima. Hudson, Fl. Angl. ed. 2, 43, as D. C ijnoxuroidcs (177S) 

 Ray, Synop. cd. 3, 393, no. 4 (1721) Sea Cock's-Loot Grass. 



Dactylis cynosuroidcs Huds., not L., was the D. cynosuroidcs of 

 Loefling, and is clearly the D. stricta of Ait. as indicated not only by 



I L. Sp. PI. i. 71 (1753). 



2Loc.ll. It. Ilisp. 115 (1758). 



a Huds. Fl. Angl. 25 (1702), ed. 2. 43 (177S). 



4 Curtis, Enum. Brit. dr. (1787). The writer has not seen the original issue of Curtis's 

 Enumeration, which is said to have been a 1-page folio published iii 17S7. Through the kind- 

 ness of Miss Marjorie L. Warner of the United States Department of Agriculture, he has 

 learned, however, thut in Volume 1 of the Flora LondinmsU at. the Library of Congress, (here 

 occurs a 4-page leaflet: "General observations on the advantages which may result from the 

 introduction of the seeds of our best grasses," the 1th page of which is the "Enumeration of 

 the British Grasses," dated at the end: " Uoluuic-gardeu, Lumbelh-Marsh, August 7, 1787" 



