12 - . Mr. Davızs’s Determination of 
floribus minoribus, pallidioribus et obtusioribus.” At the same 
time I cannot admit it to be these following, which are there re- 
ferred to, viz. Moris. s. 8. t. 9. f. 1. nor Relhan's articulatus, 
who gives his from Leers, petala acutissima. Nor is it R. Syn. 
433. No. 9. entirely ;—it is Doody’s plant there mentioned, which 
he tells us he found in Peckham-field, “cum glumis albis." - It 
may, by the definition, be Haller’s plant, No. 1323, * foliis tere- 
tibus articulatis, panicula repetito-ramosa ;” but his description 
evidently comprehends the secon as well as this. ^ Withering's 
5th var. of articulatus, p. 347. * husks white,” seems to be this 
‚plant. 
These references prove that this species has not hitherto 
escaped notice ;; but I wonder that the character, from whence I 
was inclined to take its trivial name, has not been noted by any 
writer I have seen! 
As I wished to avoid the confusion which naturally arises 
from repeatedly changing names, my design was to have named 
the three species;—the First, compressus; the sECOND, nemo- 
rosus—both after Dr. Sibthorp; and my truirn, divaricatus—a 
trivial appellation which I think particularly suitable to it. 
I communicated this my idea, of three species, to my respected 
friend Dr. Smith, who gave it as his opinion that they ought to 
be separated, and that the same thought had occurred to Ehr- 
hart, who has made three species of them, under the following 
names :—lampocarpus, (my FIRST); acutiflorus, (my SECOND); 
obtusiflorus, (my THIRD); which accord exactly with my no- 
tion. | He ho usb HERE 
These names I now adopt; and, as I have not seen Ehrhart's 
definitions, I define them as follows. - br bujio 
. JUNCUS, 
