480 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
ulous, longest branch at the lowest node 6 em., at the upper nodes 
gradually shorter, apraee three, two, or a single spikelet. Spikelets 
ultimately obovat -12 mm. long, pale green or ‘sometimes tinged 
with purple, the oherieh becoming colourless and transparent in their 
upper portion. Lowest barren glume 5:5 mm. long, very acute and 
much narrower than the upper, negra is mm. long by1'75mm. a 
Fertile glumes 9-7 mm. long by 2°5-2 mm. broad, pale 7-6 mm. by 
1°3-1 mm. Lodioulasb Sitigdly Shinde, becoming po een obliquely 
= at the top, 1:3 mm. long, anthers 5-4 mm. long. 
Near Ff’. sibivica Hackel, but distinguished by its very acute 
lower 1 a glume, longer lower fertile glumes and pales, and 
other points of detail. 
Hab. pote near Polu, 10,000 ft., June, 1898. Native name 
‘* Kileb.”’ 
CAROLI LINNAI REGNUM VEGETABILE. 
Linnzus’s Systema Nature, ed. i—a folio work 21 in. x 164 in. 
—is so rare and difficult of access that it is thought a transcript of it, 
so far as the botanical classification is concerned, m may be of interest. 
5 
the eth | 5 _ nonmtiers in Regnum —— ”; the second 
and third, which face each other, give in tabular form the classifi- 
cation. This is reproduced textually; the abbreviations (some of 
them the result of want of space), orthography, punctuation, ete. 
are those of the original; and the ont gt and other arrange- 
ments are as nearly as possible adhered 
The preface is dated from Leyden, J ‘ay 28, 1735.] 
Avcrorss Systematici ea Rp. Ruppius. 
A eta is R IVINUS. 
B. Borrnaave. 8. Scheuchzer. 
Bx. Buxbaum. T. Tournerortivs. 
C. Csapinvs. V. Vaillantius. 
D. Drmuentivs. VI. 100. Vide Hexandriam Hex- 
G. Gronovius. qui multas me- agyniam, Ubi VI 
cum communicavit plantas 100. Alism: Damason. posui, 
peregrinas, e quibus nova id est: Damasonium Tour- 
genera adposul. nefortii, est ejusdem generis 
. Heicherus. cum Alisma in Hexand. 
Hs. Heisterus. Pol 
I. Jussieu. * — Indiecat plantarum flores, a 
K. Knautius fil me hactenus non exa “ 
M tos, sed a4 fida ori 
Mg. Maeno, descriptione vel Figura he 
Mr. Martyn. 
Pl. Plumier. t pam genera a me consti- 
Pn. Pontedera. tuta. 
