Br. Smith'* Ohfervations on the Brit ft Species of Bromut. 299 



me, but certainly neither Dillenius's, Sherard's, nor Buddie's, the 

 proper reference to Ray's fecond edition, and Plukenet, u 299. / 2. 

 with a remark in Latin, that « another grafs is exhibited for this 

 in the Synopfisr that is in the third edition. Yet with this arc 

 two poor fpecimens of the fome grafs, marked with the original 

 definition of Bobart, and the reference to the Appendix to. Ray's 

 firft edition, p. 237, which belongs to B. ereclus, as I have already 

 mentioned. This is written in a handfome hand, to which I am 

 likewife a ftranger. A more complicated, blunder exifts in Buddie's 

 herbarium. Under the infcription « Feftuca avenacea fterilis, 

 paniculis confertis ereftioribus, ariftis brevioribus, D. Sherard,' 

 Raii Syn. 261," are three mod diftindt and diffimilar plants. In the 

 firft place Bromus fcoparius of Linnaeus, next B. ereclus with downy 

 glumes, and laftly Feftuca uniglumis, under which la ft is written 

 (by Buddie as well as the reft) « colle^um in inf. Merfea prope 

 Colceftr. a D. Dale, R. H. 1287." So that there is only wanting 

 the re*\ grafs to which the faid infcription properly belongs. I was 

 once inclined, on this authority, to add B. fcoparius to the' Britilh 

 Flora ; but as there is no proof in Sherard's own collection of his 

 having found it in Jerfey, we muft fuppofe Buddie had it from 

 fome other quarter, and, merely from his own judgment, referred. 

 it to the plant of Sherard and Ray. 



From the above tedious but neceffary detail, I truft theconfufioa 

 of fynonyms between B. ereclus and B. diandrus, which exifts in 

 Mudfon and all other writers who have touched upon them, will 

 be accounted for, and in fome meafure excufed, though it muft be 

 confefled the author of the Flora Anglica had the means in his 

 power of clearing it up, had he been fufficiently attentive. It will 

 alfo appear from the hiftory of fuch miftakes, which are abundant 

 throughout every Britifti Flora we have yet feen, that the comple- 



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