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1. C. fulva, Good. Liim. Trans, ii, 177, t. 20, f. 6 : 1792. Wahl. Act. Holm. : 



1803. Smith, Fl. Brit. iii. 991 : 1804. Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 270 : 1805. Wahl. 

 Fl. Suec. : 1806. Schkuhr, Riedgr. T. Q7, figures 2 dext. Hoppe, Car. Get. 

 I. 41. Smith, Eng. Fl. iv. 107 : 1828. Reichenhach, Fl. Ger. ex. i. 65 : 

 1830. Mutel, Fl. Dauphine : 1830. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iii. 823 : 1826. 

 Brebisson, Fl.Normandie: 1836. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 765: 1837. Kunth, 

 Cyp. 449. Desportes, Fl. de la Sarthe &c. 1838. Boreau, Fl. du Centre de 

 la France : 1840. Macreight, Man. Br. Bot. 

 Syn. — C. distans, Host. i. t. 77 ; fide Reich. C. trigona, Allioni, t. 89, fig. 4 ; 

 fide Cosson ^c. C. xanthocarpa, Degland, apud Loisel. ; fide Cosson ^-c. C. 

 Hornschuchiana, /3. xanthocarpa^ Cosson et Germain, Obs. sur quelq. PI. de 

 Paris, p. 20 ; 1840. Delastre, Fl. du Dep. de la Vienne: 1842. 



2. C. speirostachija, Wahl. Act. Holm. 1803, (sub C. binervi). Swartz in Herb. 



Smith. Smith, Eng. Fl.iv. 98: 1828. Tuckerman, Enum. Meth. Car. 13 : 

 1843. Eng. Bot. Don, t. Macreight, Man. Br. Bot. 



Syn. — C.binervis, Wahl. Act. Holm. 1803: Fl. Suec. 1826: {non Smith). 

 Swartz, Herb. Winch, {non Sm.) C. distans, Fl. Dan. t. 1049; fide Smith, 

 Cosson {negat Reich.) C. Hosteana, Dec. Cat., Kunth, Spreng. Reich, (/irfe 

 Hoppe, MS.) C fulva, Host, iv. t. 65, fide Hoppe. Dec. fide Boreau. Schk. 

 Riedgr. T. 67, fig. sinistr. Duby, Bot. Gall. 495, fide Cosson <^c. C. fulva, 

 /3. Hook. Br. Fl. 429: 1842. C. Hornschuchiana, Hoppe, Fl. 1824 : Car. 

 Ger. t. 40. Reich.; Koch; Brebisson; Boreau; Desportes; Delastre; Cos- 

 son et GeiTiiain ; omn. loc. cit. 



^. fiavescens, Desportes, loc. cit. Fruct? squamis(iue flavescentibus; v. s. Herb. 

 Winch e cl. Swartz. 



Wahlenberg's name of C. speirostacliya has the priority over that 

 of Decaiidolle and Hoppe. A Swedish specimen so named by Swartz 

 is in Smith's herbarium, and it was adopted in the ' English Flora.' 

 Wahlenberg, in the ' Act. Holm.' and the ' Flora Suecica,' mistook 

 the plant for C. binervis, Smith, and a Swedish specimen from Swartz 

 so named is in Mr. Winch's herbarium. 



The question is, whether the two plants are to be considered as 

 species or varieties. It will be seen by the authorities quoted, that 

 by far the most of them make the two specifically distinct. Cosson 

 and Germain, from the circumstance of C. Hornschuchiana being the 

 most common form, take that as the type, and reduce the C. fulva, 

 Good., to the var. /3., and they are followed by Delastre. 



I do not find any British specimens of C. fulva in Smith's herbari- 

 um. On the sheet holding his specimens marked " C. fulva," there 

 are three from Sweden, from Swartz, which answer to the description 

 and figure of Goodenough ; and with these are four from " Prof. 

 Beattie, Aberdeen, 1799," — and three others from ^^ Mack ay, moist 

 moorish ground, Scotland, 1796," all of which I think are clearly 

 referrible to C. speirostachya, having the mouth of the perigynium 



