278 Dr. Suiru's Account of the Bromus triflorus. 
therefore the Swiss botanists may have confounded them, though 
the two plants seen together are extremely unlike each other. I 
have, in the collection of Mr. Davall, a regular series of Haller's 
grasses by themselves, all numbered, by what authority I know 
not, in which No. 1511. is Festuca elatior, and No. 1510. Bromus 
triflorus; but the description and synonyms of Haller certainly 
belong to B. giganteus of Linnaeus, my Festuca gigantea, a. plant 
nearly allied indeed to that of which 1 have been treating, both in 
generic and specific characters, but, I think, distinct. 
I shall conclude by remarking that the ric and. interesting 
Flora of Switzerland, though admifabl y illustrated by Haller, 
as far as his own observation went, requires great corrections 
with regard to synonyms. To this subject my lamented friend, 
to whose herbarium I have referred above, had given great at- 
tention, but he left it incomplete. When I have made ‘good 
some prior engagements, I hope to communicate the fruit of . 
— Mr. Davall's labours and my own, in some shape or other, to the 
world. | 
LT remain, dear sir, faithfully yours, 
J E. SMITH. 
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