210 Mn. ArzELIUS's Account of 
meafure a medium fpecies between the alpefre and fraterfe, I think 
I have reafon to prefer the oldeft name, and which was given by 
Linnzus himfelf; though he afterwards changed it for a/peffre, or 
rather confounded thefe two fpecies. Hence he fays, in the fecond 
edition of Species Plantarum, that Trifolium alpefire grows alfo in 
Sweden; whereas no other than the medium is found there. ——— 
It appears as if Linnæus had been led into this miftake by the 
ftipulz, which in both are fimilar, and very different from thofe of 
Trifol. pratenfe, though in other refpeéts the alpefre and medium have 
few things in common. - ver, it feems as if fucceeding botanifts 
had generally regarded the Trifol. medium as the alpefre, and con- 
founded the fynonyms of both; whereas, neverthelefs, properly 
fpeaking, the medium has neither caulis erectus, nor folia lanceolata fer- 
rulata. But having in various authors obferved various notions of 
- thefe and other terms, this no longer appears fingular to me. At all 
events it is certain that the Trifol. algefre of all the Englifh bota- 
nifts, of Crantz, Scopoli, Pollich, Leers, Muller, Retzius, Lieblein, 
and perhaps alfo of Gmelin, Scholler, Mattufchka, Reichard, and 
Willdenow, is no other than the 777/2/. medium ; „for I am informed 
that this latter only, and not t ormer, crows in England an nd 
Scotland, as Dr. Stokes has before obferved ; and the fame I can 
fay of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Befides, the figure of 
Muller plainly evinces that his Trifol. alzeffre is the medium. 
That Crantz, Scopoli, Pollich, Leers, and Lieblein have made 
the fame miftake, is evident from their defcriptions, as with regard 
to the two firft I have fhewn above; and, as to the three latter 
authors, they compare their Trifolium with the pratenfe, faying 
that its ftem is for the moft part depreffed, or almoft lying on the 
ground (efpecially at the bafes), fomewhat angular, and furnifhed 
with joints; the leaves are feldom ue. and gre on the under 
fide 
