112 È DR. Smitu’s Account of 
In the fecond edition of that work, the plant appears with the 
fame fynonyms, and the following note: 
—€ Gramen in vivo ulterius examinandum iis quibus adeft. Facies. 
eft Anthoxanthi odorati. Calyces quadriflori. Flores mutici. And 
Linnzeus adds, that it grows * in Horto Dei Monfpelienfi;" which is 
a {pot celebrated for its botanical riches ever fince the days of - 
Belleval, and which Burfer vifited in the tour. which he made 
through Europe in fearch of plants... 
No one, however, has been able to ink out what Linnaeus 
meant by his Anthoxanthum paniculatum. The Montpelier bota- 
nifts have gone many a pilgrimage to the Hortus Dei, without 
finding any thing which anfwered to the defcription; infomuch that 
profeflor Gouan, in his Illuftrationes Botanicz, page 2, has aflerted 
that Anthoxanthum paniculatum ought to be ftruck out of the 
Lmnæan Syftem, nothing being to be found in the place where it 
is faid to grow, but the common A. odoratum.. 
In my vifit to Oxford laft year, with Sir Jofeph Banks cem Mr. 
Dryender, one great object of my curiofity was the firft volume of 
Rudbeck's celebrated Campi Elyfii, which is preferved in the She- - 
rardian library, and of which there are but three copies extant. I 
fought out the figure quoted for the grafs in queftion, and immedi- 
ately perceived it to be nothing elfe than the Poa Gerard; of Allioni's 
Flora Pedemontana, a plant I had gathered the preceding fummer on 
Mount Cenis. ‘Taking an exact copy of Rudbeck’s figure, and on 
my return to town comparing it with my fpecimen, I had not a 
doubt remaining on the fubjeét. 
It appears likewife that profeffor Gouan himfelf has gathered 
the plant; for I find in the Linnzan Herbarium an imperfect fpe- 
cimen of it fent by him, under the name of a Feftuca, to which 
genus it really belongs. But this fpecimen Linnæus omitted to name; 
nor did he recolle& that he had defcribed the plant already. 
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