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to him in the previous year (1731), J. M. Hulth supplies a note, 

 the gist of which is here translated : — 



(1) Dissertatio de planta Sceptro Carol ino. The original MS. 

 is in the University library of Upsala. On the verso of the first folio 

 is the following remark by Linnaeus himself : " I wrote this disserta- 

 tion in one day, for the price agreed upon of 20 thalers. Another 

 has the credit of it." It was duly read by J. 0. Budbeck, " the 

 author," before the Upsala Society on 19 June 1731, and afterwards 

 printed, with one plate included. 



(2) Hortus Uplandicus. This list of plants, grown mostly in 

 the Upsala Botanic Garden, and extending to 160 pages, is dated 

 1731. It remained in MS., and was not actually printed until 1888. 



C. glaberrimum is published as a new species by Lapeyrouse, with- 

 out any indication of its affinities or previous history. 



Hah. Norway. Sweden (first indicated by Linnaeus in Lappland). 

 Arctic Eussia. Austria (Carinthia). Italy (Carniola, until re- 

 cently in Austrian territory). Rumania (in an area recently trans- 

 ferred from Hungary ; = C. alpinum var. a glabrescens Schur, Enum. 

 PI. Transsilv. 22 [1866]). France (dept. of Pyrenees-Orientales — 

 Canigou, Cambredage, Llaurenti, sec. Lapeyrouse). 



131. C. glabratum Hartman, Handb. Scand. Fl. 180 (1820).— A 

 brief description in Swedish, coming before n. 3, 0. alpinum. Identical 

 with the preceding. 



132. C. glandulosum Schur in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitsch. 1869, 300 ; 

 — G. triviale var. glandulosum Beichb. Fl. Germ, excurs. 796, sub 

 n. 4972 (1832). — Totum glanduloso-pilosum, bienne vel perenne. 

 Caules multi curvato-adscendentes, a medio ramosi, 1-2^ dcm. Folia 

 subrotundo-elliptica, radicalia ovato-spathulata subpetiolata, parum 

 minora. Flores breviter pedicellati plusminus conferti, in dichasium 

 digesti. Gapsula apicem versus tenuiter curvata. 



Hah. Dry grassy places on the Circus field of the Prater, Vienna. 

 It has no claim to specific rank, and is no more than a very glandular 

 state of the common form, with congested flowers, and a less curved 

 capsule, perhaps nearest to G. triviale var. canescens Giirke, PL 

 Europe, ii. 225 (1899). Original specimens are in the Vienna 

 herbarium. 



133. C. glomebatum Thuill. (1799). — Cosmopolitan and very 

 variable. Ascends to 1350 metres in the Himalayas of Sikkim 

 (Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 228) ; to 480 metres on the Grampians 

 of Perthshire, on the east side of Helvellyn in Westmoreland, and in 



Dublin. ^ TT , 



134. C. glutinosum Fries, Nov. fl. Suecic. (1814), et Fl. Hal- 

 landica, p. 51 (1817), non Fries, Herb. Normale, fasc. iv. n. 54 

 (1837) : =C. pumilum Curtis, Fl. Londin. fasc. vi. n. 69, t. 30 (1794). 



Neither of the two works of Fries is either in Herb. Kew. or in 



the Linnean Society's library, so that is probably why Ind. Kew. cites 

 as the authority ed. 2 of the first citation. For the probable date of 

 Curtis's n. 69 containing G pumilum (1794, after 1 Aug.) cf. B. D. 

 Jackson in Journ. Bot, 1881, 310. The letterpress of a plate in the 

 same number refers to "this summer 1794 in the beginning of 



