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bably the plant found in Scotland, which is also female, originated in the 
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same man 
REVISION OF THE NOMENCLATURE AND ARRANGE- 
MENT OF THE CAPE SPECIES OF ANTHERICUM, 
By J. G. Baxzn, ELS. 
-specimens of these twenty-two species were prese 1 ^ 
herbarium at Upsala, but his descriptions being somewhat brief, later 
writers have greatly puzzled how to deal with them. In h 
ficently-illustrated works, the ‘Icones’ and ‘ Hortus Scheenbrunensis,’ 
especially in the former, which extended from 1781 to 1783, and conse- 
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them so fully and clearly that there is little room for doubt about their 
characters (fruit and seed characters alone excepted), and none about their 
identity. A few were named by Aiton in * Hortus Kewensis,’ and scraps 
of a few drawn in the early numbers of the * Botanical Magazine, Will- 
denow did not contribute any material addition, but he took 
genus Bulbine, which Linnæus named in ‘Hortus Cliffortianus? and 
afterwards abandoned. In the seventh volume of *S 
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so as to take in several species with glabrous filaments, which Willdenow 
had left in 4uthericum. Lastly, in 1843, Kunth treated upon them in 
regular course in the fourth volume his * Enumeratio. Besides rele- 
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ophytum, 
the two middle ones here constituted for the first time, and the two last 
Australian genera established by Robert Brown. I cannot think that 
this subdivision was a move in the right direction. Chloro hytum is a 
name in the Linnean and Thunbergian sense, under six wenera 
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