and on several new Species of Roscoea. 



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has figured in detail, is so. This is bipinnate. His /. 2. is 

 exactly copied, without acknowledgment, from the figure of Dil- 

 lenius, £.83./. 6, coloured gratuitously ! This is tripinnate. Its 

 coming from Pennsylvania does not prove it the same species. 

 The plant of Dillenius is indeed what Linnaeus meant for //. de- 

 licctt ulum ; but there is no specimen in the Linniean Herbarium, 

 nor have I examined that which I presume to be preserved at 

 Oxford. This delicatulum may be a small variety of the prolife- 

 rum, which species is found in various quarters of the globe ; 

 but, though well aware of that circumstance, I durst not, in the 

 Flora Britannica, refer to this plant of Dillenius, and still less 

 to the obviously different bipinnate one of Hedwig. But I have 

 cited, without scruple, the European //. delicatulum of Schra- 

 der's Spicilegium 73, and H. delicatumof Ehrhart's Cn/ptogamia, 

 it. 301, from a comparison of specimens. Both these synonyms 

 are omitted in the Muscologia. Dillenius's tab. 35. f. 14, is 

 unquestionably right, as quoted by all authors. The synonyms 

 of Haller, Vaillant and Morison, to be found under this species 

 in Fl. Brit., are well worthy of notice, though left out of th 

 Muscologia. Vaillant's representation of /if. proliferum, t. e 35. 

 f. 1, though correct, being smaller, and far less specious, than 

 that of //. splendens, t. 28. f. 1, and especially t. 29- f. 1, has 

 caused a general confusion amongst foreign botanists ; cleared 

 up, I trust, by authentic records, and not without some pains, 

 in the Flora Britannica ; which work might perhaps, according 

 to general usage, and not without advantage, have been quoted 

 in the Muscologia. 



So much for the real H. proliferum. The rest of the syno- 

 nyms, though not separated, belong to the recognition , just now 

 recognised, after a lapse of thirty years, at Matlock. — These are, 



H. recognitum. Hedwig. Stir p. Crypt, v. iv. t. 35, and Sp. 

 Muse. p. 261 ; not t. 67. f. 1 — 5 of the latter work ; neither is 



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