the Fefluca fpadicea, Gi. 115 
ADDITIONAL REMARKS. 
Read Oétober 5, 1790. 
WHEN the preceding obfervations were laid beforc the Lin- 
nean Society, I named the graís in.queftion Feftuca anthoxantha, 
in allufion, not only to its old generic name, but alfo to the yellow 
colour of its flowers. ae 
At the fame time I had a fecret or nA of it its boue the Feftuca 
fpadicea of Gouan's Illuftrationes Botanica, page 4, and Linnzus's 
Syftema Nature, ed. 12, v. 2, p.732. I was almoft convinced that 
the defcription found in the place laft quoted had been made from 
the very fpecimen above mentioned, now in the Linnean Herba- 
rium. In order to fettle this point, I fent one of my own fpecimens, 
without any remarks, to profeffor Gouan, and have juft received 
for anfwer that it is certainly his Feftuca fpadicea. To this name 
that of F. anthoxantha muft therefore give way; as the Linnean 
. name has the right of priority, and is indeed very apt. 
Since my former paper was written, I have alfo collected fome fy- 
nonyms of the above grafs, from the Sherardian Herbarium, part 
of which I have looked over in company with profeffor John - 
Sibthorp. They are the following. 
Gramen paniculatum, alpinum, radice craffiffimà, foliis rigidis, 
ftriatis, et afperis, paniculà fufca non ariftata. Micheli Hort. 
Pifan. 75. 
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