210 Dr. SmitH’s Additional Obfervations, &c. 
Now the manner in which this is expreffed implies that the 
author had, from the Linnzan Herbarium, learned Feftuca fpadicea 
and Anthoxanthum paniculatum to be the fame plant; whereas 
it is fufficiently manifeft, from my former paper, he could never 
have difcovered from that fource what either of thofe plants was; 
there being nothing in the Herbarium to reprefent the latter, and 
of the former only an imperfe& anonymous fpecimen, placed at 
the end of the genus of Feftuca, which could never have been af- 
certained but by the peculiar train of circumftances which led me 
to the knowledge of it, and which was certainly never known to 
be Feftuca fpadicea till it was announced as fuch before this So- 
ciety, Oct. 5, 1790, that is, about five years after Profeffor Vahl 
faw the Herbarium; fill lefs had any botanift in Europe till then 
- fuppofed the fame Feftuca to be Poa Gerardi of Allioni, * 
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