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inflated sheaths of the leaves, evinced a generic affinity between 
the two plants. So great indeed is this affinity, that, but for the 
involucrum, the original Cornucopia cucullatum would be an Alo- 
pecurus ; for we have lately become acquainted with some spe- 
cies of the latter, whose flowers more nearly agree with it in 
structure than those which Linnaeus knew ; while the Cornucopia 
alopecuroides turns out the very identical Phalaris utriculata of 
Linnaeus, which is itself a real Alopecurus. 
I have in another place (Tour on the Continent, vol. 2. p. 293.) 
mentioned that Linnaeus described his Phalaris utriculata from 
other authors, without seeing it; a circumstance which may excuse 
his very erroneous suspicion of its not being distinct from Pha- 
laris paradoxa, as well as his not finding it out to be an Alopecurus, 
or that the new grass of Arduino was the very same thing. Both 
these discoveries occurred to me at once, in examining Phalaris 
utriculata for the purpose of making out its full description for 
the Flora Graca. I found it in character and habit a decided 
Alopecurus, and that some new grasses, which Dr. Sibthorp, from 
their affinity to Phleum Gerardi of Jacquin, had considered as 
species of Phleum, were to be referred to Alopecurus also: even 
the Phleum Gerardi perhaps, notwithstanding its having a small 
inner valve to the corolla, ought, as the accurate Gerard sus- 
pected, to be arranged under Alopecurus. Having made this 
discovery, the recollection of Cornucopia alopecuroides came 
into my mind. It had always been an obscure plant, known 
only by the Linnaean specimen, nor ever found by any bota- 
nist except Arduino. Sir Joseph Banks had more than once 
looked at the specimen with me. His penetrating judgment 
suspected something anomalous in it, and I was the more ready 
to acquiesce in his suspicions, from the plant having been found 
only once : but neither of us could recollect to what it really 
belonged; for on comparing it carefully with Alopecurus pratensis, 
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