Dr. Smitn’s Obfervations on the Britifh Species of Bromus. 299 
me, but certainly neither Dillenius’s, Sherard’s, nor Buddle’s, the 
proper reference to Ray’s fecond edition, and Plukenet, #. 299. f. 2. 
with a remark in Latin, that “ another grafs is exhibited for this 
in the Synopfis,” that is in the third edition. Yet with this are 
two poor fpecimens of the fame grafs, marked with the original 
definition of Bobart, and the reference to the Appendix to Ray’s 
firft edition, p. 237, which belongs to B. ereéius, as I have already 
mentioned. ‘This is written in a handfome hand, to which I am. 
likewife a ftranger. A more complicated blunder exifts in Buddle’s 
herbarium. Under the infcription “ Feftuca avenacea fterilis, 
paniculis confertis ereétioribus, ariftis brevioribus, D. Sherard, 
Raii Syn, 261,” are three moft diftin& and diffimilar plants. In the 
firft place Bromus fcoparius of Linneus, next: B.. erectus with downy 
glumes, and laftly Fe/ffuca uniglumis, under which laft is written 
(by Buddle as well as the reft) “ colleétum im inf. Merfea propé 
Colceftr. a D. Dale, R. H. 1287.” So that there is only wanting 
the real grafs to which the faid infcription properly belongs. _ I was 
once inclined, on this authority, to add B. /coparius to the Britith 
Flora; but as there is no proof in Sherard’s own collection of his 
having found it in Jerfey, we muft fuppofe Buddle had it from 
fome other quarter, and, merely from his own judgment, “wey 
it to the plant of Sherard and Ray. : 
From the above tedious but neceffary-detail, I truft the confufion 
of fynonyms between B. ereéivs and B. diandrus, which exifts in 
Hudfon and all other writers who have touched upon them, will 
be accounted for,’ and in fome meafure excufed, though it muft be 
confeffed the author of the Fora Anglica had the means in his 
power of clearing it up, had he been fufficiently attentive. It will 
alfo appear from the hiftory of fuch miftakes, which are abundant 
throughout every Britith Flora we have yet feen, that the comple- 
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