2J2 FREDERIC EHRHART*S 



having two-valved flowers, others of three, four, 

 live, and six valves. 



Agrostis pumila L. which I gathered, in com- 

 pany with my late friends, Linnveus and Gruno, 

 near the Linnean villa Hammarby, and which 

 both acknowledged to be a distinct species, is 

 nothing, according to my own observations, but a 

 diseased Agrostis stolonifera. I preserve speci- 

 mens which are half Agrostis stolonifera, half 

 A. pumila.* 



Cynosurus cristatus has not bractea pinnata, but 

 ■pinnatijida. 



Cynosurus echinatus has not a bifid style, but is 

 truly digynous. 



The Gynosuri digitati do not properly belong 

 to the rest of Cynosuri of Linnaeus, but conflitute a 

 proper genus. With regard to the situation of the 

 locustse they approach to Capreola of Adanson, 

 and to Andropogon barbatum and polydactylon. 

 Bromus secalinus, squarrbsus, hordeaceus,arven- 

 sis and tectorum Linn, are, indeed, very nearly 



* In Agrostis pnmita, the flowers, as a consequence of the disease, 

 appear constantly smutty, and display, when dissected, a great number 

 cf small blackish globules, resembling minute seeds. T. 



