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Gramen serotinum arvense, spica laxa pyramidali. Raj. hist. 1288. Vail. 
paris. 88. 
Suecis Réd-hwen. 
Habitat ad ripas lacuum & in partis depressis ubique. 
In the Flora Lapponica. p. 27, no. 46 (1737) we find in addition to th 
quotation given above (in which injerne replaces inferiore) : 
Gramen segetum arvense, panicula contracta pyramidali. Raj. hist. 1288. 
Scheuch. hist. 148. 
a Ad ripas lacuum, tempore autumnali; rufescens occurrit. 
8 Panicula, dum floret, secundum verticillos explicatur horizontaliter patens; 
contracta superius in eadem nondum florente. 
The references to Ray and Scheuchzer are based on Milium lendigerum, 
as are also those of Vaillant and two additional references which he gives. 
“*Plukenet Phytographia Tab. 33, fig. 6,’’ and “‘Tournefort Institutiones 
Rei Herbariae 515.” 
3. Description—There is no description in the Species Plantarum 
aside from the synonyms given, but the habitat ‘“‘in arenosis subhumidis 
would not seem to apply to the plant going under the name of A. rubra Ls 
A. borealis Hartm., which is an alpine grass. 
The description given in the first citation, ‘Fl. Suec.,” does not apply 
to A. borealis Hartm., as the flowering glume (‘‘petalo exteriore”’) is said 
to terminate in a recurved twisted awn. The awn in A. borealis arises from 
the back of the glume. Itisto be noted that Linnaeus described the next 
species, A. canina, as having the awn dorsal (Sp. Pl. 62; Fl. Suec. 392, 2 
1138). As the awn is terminal in Milium lendigerum, it is probable thet 
this part of the description was based upon that species, which beh 
some way confused with the Swedish plant. It is also to be noted that - 
describes in his Flora of Lapland only two species of Agrostis, A. capillar's 
and the species under consideration. It has been pointed out by sever 
European authors that Linnaeus evidently confused two or more bs gar: 
under A. rubra, one of which was A. vulgaris. ‘This, added to his e 
of determination in identifying the Scandinavian plant with Milium ! x 
serum of southern Europe and the consequent mixing of synonyms,has a - 
it impossible to determine with any definiteness the type of A. rus a. we 
this reason it is best to take up the next available name, A. borealis Hari 
Skand. Fl. Ed. 4. 23. 1843. ae 
Linnaeus evidently discovered his error in regard to Malium this 
serum, for in the second edition of the Species Plantarum he i oa 
and based the name on “Raj. Hist. 1288, Scheuch. Gram. 145. *! 
