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XI. On the Feffuca Spedicee/ and Anthoxanthum paniculatum, of Linnæus. 
By James Edward Smith, M. D. F. R, S. Prefident of the Linnean 
Society. 
Read February 3, 1789. 
N the academical differtation intitled Plantz Martino Burferianæ, 
publifhed at Upfal in the year 1745, under the aufpices of 
Linnzus, mention is made (page 2, No. 13) of a grafs with the 
following fynonyms: 
Graminis fpartei fpecies. , 
Anthoxanthum floribus paniculatis. 
Gramen fparteum panicula flavefcente. Rudb. Elyf. 1. f. 14. 
This was copied in the Ameenit. Academ. and admitted into the 
firft edition of Species Plantarum, anno 1753, by the name of 
Anthoxanthum paniculatum, and there faid to grow in the fouth of 
Europe. : 
It appears that Linnæus defcribed this grafs from the fpecimen 
in Burfer's Herbarium only; it not being to be found, at leaft not 
under that name, in his own collection. 
In his interleaved copy of Species Plant. ed. 1, I find the fol- 
lowing MS. note upon this plant: 
‘ Facies Anthoxanthi odorati, fed rigidius. Calyces quadriflori. 
Flores mutici. Forte diverfi generis. Inquirenda ulterius." 
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