12 Mr. Davies's Determination of 



floribus rainoribus, pallidioribus et obtusioribus." At the same 

 time I cannot admit it to be these following, Avhicli are there re- 

 ferred to, viz. Moris, s. 8. t. Q. f. 1. nor Relhan's oriiculatus, 

 AA'ho gives his from Leers, petala acuiissima. Nor is it Li. Si/n. 

 433. No. 9- entirely; — it is Doody's plant there mentioned, which 

 he tells us he found in Peckhain-field, " cum glumis albis." It 

 may, by the definition, be Haller's plant. No. 1323, " foliis tere- 

 tibus articulatis, panicula repetito-ramosa ;" but his description 

 evidently comprehends the second as well as this. Withering's 

 oth var. of articulatus, p. 347- " husks white," seems to be this 

 plant. 



These references prove that this species has not hitherto 

 escaped notice; but I wonder that the character, from whence I 

 was inclined to take its trivial name, has not been noted by any 

 writer I have seen ! 



As I wished to avoid the confusion which naturally arises 

 from repeatedly changing names, my design was to have named 

 the three species; — the first, compressus ; the second, nemo- 

 7'osus — both after Dr. Sibthorp; and my third, divaricatus — a 

 trivial appellation which I think particularly suitable to it. 



I communicated this my idea, of three species, to my respected 

 friend Dr. Smith, who gave it as his opinion that they ought to 

 be separated, and that the same thought had occurred to Ehr- 

 haj"t, who has made three species of them, under the following 

 names: — lampocarpus, (my first); acutijforiis, (my second); 

 obiusijlorus, (my third); which accord exactly with my no- 

 tion. 



These names I now adopt; and, as I have not seen Ehrhart's 

 definitions, I define them as follows. 



JUNCUS, 



