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the author’s own hand—as the specimen preserved in his own 
herbarium; and for this very adequate reason. The older 
xt, the exact specimen from which the type-plant was taken, if 
that plant has disappeared the remainder of the tuft may consist 
(Web.); his phrase “ frondibus simpliciter pinnatis basi Jloriferis, 
foliolis setaceis,” followed by the synonym from Linneus (Mant. ii.) 
“Jung. fronde repente ramosa, foliolis alternis geminis setaceis 
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such a tuft, of the three species combined; but, however that may 
have been, it must be conceded that no number of specimens of J. 
_ connivens preserved in his herbarium can justify us in quoting his 
Tab. 69, f, 4 for that species; and such seems also to have been 
the opinion of Hooker. 
