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racteristic designations may be substituted, few authorities in 
nomenclature would be disposed to admit. Whether the plant 
is permanently and essentially distinct from all forms of vulgaris 
‘I have not been able, after having seen it growing almost periodi- 
cally for many years, and gathered for distribution a large num- 
ber of specimens, to form an opinion with confidence, though 
inclining to the belief that such is really the case. At different 
dates, Fries himself has evidently understood it very differently ; 
for whilst in the ‘ Novitiz’ (1828) he mentions for it only a 
single station, in the ‘Summa’ (1846) he gives it a more widely 
diffused distribution throughout Scandinavia than vulgaris ; and 
although, in the ‘ Novitie,’ he locates vulgaris sylvestris “in syl- 
vestro-montanis ad ripas fluviorum Lapponie,’ in the ‘Summa’ 
he enumerates for Lapland stricta only. Undoubtedly its best . 
characteristics, as pointed out by Babington and Arnott, reside 
not in the fruit, but in the leaves and flowers. 

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