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XIV. Additional Obfervations relating to Foféuca adicea and Anthox- 
antbum. paniculatum, By James Edward Smith, M. D. F. R. 8: 
and P. L. S. C c ) 
Read Feb. 7, 1792. 
N a paper which the Linnean Society have honoured with a 
place in the rft volume of their Tranfaétions, page 111, [have 
endeavoured to elucidate the botanical hiftory of the Feftuca fpa- 
dicea and Anthoxanthum paniculatum of Linnzus, concluding 
thefe graffes, from all the means of information then within my 
reach, to be one and the fame plant. That no poffibility of doubt 
might remain, nor the fynonyms of this obícure fpecies want any 
certainty that could be procured, I laft fummer requefted Profeflor 
Thunberg to compare one of my fpecimens with that in Burfer's 
Herbarium at Upfal, which is the only pofitive authority for afcer- 
taining what Linnæus meant by his Anthoxanthum paniculatum. 
In a letter dated Dec. 28, 1791, the Profeflor affures me there is no 
doubt of their perfe& identity. 
Knowing myfelf to be the fole author of this elucidation, the 
progrefs of which is detailed in the paper above mentioned, it is not 
without fome furprife that I read in Profeflor Vahl's 2d fafciculus of 
his Symbole Botanicæ, page 22, the material parts of my difcovery 
given as his own in tbe following words. — 
Feftuca fpadicea—Linn. S. V. pag. 118. Gouan illuftr. p. 4. 
Anthoxanthum paniculatum—Linn. S. V. p. 73. fide Herbarii 
LiNNÆI. 
Poa Gerardi. Allion. Fl. Ped. No. 2201. 
Variat calycibus 3-five 5-floris. 
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