140 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [aucust 
ticillata Vill. The species is common in southern Europe, but is not found 
in England or the Scandinavian countries. I found no other specimen 
labeled A. stolonijera, although Munro states that there was also one marked 
thus which was a form of A. alba (Proc. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 6: 40. 
“The Herbarium contains one of the forms of A. vulgaris, which is called 
stolonijera, the Fiorin Grass; another, marked sfolonijera, by Linn., is A. 
verticillata Vill.”’). 
2. Synonyms and citations —The first synonym is from Linnaeus’s 
Flora Suecica, p. 23, no. 61 (1745). The citation is as quoted, but lacks 
the words “‘flosculis muticis.”” The description agrees with A. verticillata 
Vill., especially ‘folii supremi vagina ventricosa.” To the description in 
this work is added: 
Gramen caninum supinum minus. Scheuch. hist. 128. 
Agrostis stolonifera vulgo. 
Suecis Kryp-hwen. 
Habitat in agris incultis ubique praefertim Upsaliae. 
The reference here to Scheuchzer is the same as given in the Spectes 
Plantarum. The description in Scheuchzer’s A grostographia is quite full 
and agrees well with A. verticillata Vill. Scheuchzer gives references to 
Bauhin, but the descriptions of the latter author are less satisfactory. ’ 
It is to be noted that the first citation given by Linnaeus (Sp. Pl.) 1 
“Roy. lugdb. 59.” This is an error, as this does not appear in Royen, 
Flora Leydensis, the work referred to. ; 
The second citation (L., S p. Pl.) is correctly quoted from Royen. This 
is also referred to “Dalib. paris. 23.” This is also an error, as the first 
citation appears here. It appears then that the authorities “Roy. lugdb. 
59” under the first citation, and “‘Dalib. paris. 23” under the second cita- 
tion should be interchanged. As the description in Dalibard, Flora 
Parisiensis, quotes Linn. Fl. Suec. 61, this still leaves the Flora of Sweden 
as the basis of the first synonym. It may be remarked that Dalibard also 
quotes the description from Royen and ‘‘Gramen caninum supinum 
minus.” Royen quotes a polynomial from Ray’s Synopsis which ee 
to an Irish plant, probably some form of A. alba. 
Going back to the Flora of Sweden, we find as the first synonym es 
citation from “Scheuch. hist. 128,” which is A. verticillata Vill. — i 
All the evidence under the head of synonymy, then, is in favor of A. vert 
cillata Vill. as being the basis of Linnaeus’s A. stolonijera, except that the 
description appears in a Flora o } Sweden, where A. verticillata does not occur, 
or at least not commonly, and yet is said to be common there in ee 
vated fields. Linnaeus evidently had confused two species—what We 
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