NOMENCLATURE OF ‘LONDON CATALOGUE.’ 837 
1685. ‘“ Leersia oryzoides Sw. vel Soland. ap. Sw. Fl. Ind. Oce. 
1787. — In Pollich’s Fl. Pal. [i. 52] 1776, the plant was called 
Homalocenchrus oryzoides ; Ehrhartia clandestina [Web. in} eae 
Fl. Holsat, [68 (1780)], — = oryzoides in Lam s Ill. 
kgs p. 167 gf wits» 7 é. Leersia orgulad3 was pub- 
in Sw Fl. es Gs 21 (1788), without mention of 
Selmninn 
1642. Alopecurus agrestis Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, > Mecea: was 
preceded 4 Hudson's 4. mnyoourotdes Fl. Angl. ed. 1 
; 1656. Agrostis alba L.—* It has been iggosied pte this should 
be known as palustris Huds. What is the plant of Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 
caliws alba, ‘ panicula — calycibus muticis s#qualibus. Tabites 
in Europe nemoribus’? In Hudson’s ed. 2 the 4. mera of 
ed. 1 is placed as a variety of A. polymorpha.” —Mr. 
1662. Gastridium lendigerum Gaud. Fl. Helv. i. 176 (1828) is 
antedated by G. australe Beauy. Agrost. 21 (1812). 
1672. Corynephorus canescens Beauv. Agrost. 90 (1812). Sgr 
genus was called Weingertneria by Bernhardi in 1800.’""—Mr. Drue 
a 
. Des Se setacea [F. J. Hanb.], ‘or discolor Roem. & 
h, [Syst "2 Scr ae 17], or a ana Gren. & Godr. [FI. Fr. 
ia. i 68 {8 56)].— Under tl of Aira discolor napa 
dist tributed Sierecas of a <a of. ‘D. c@spitosa, according 
‘Nyman.”—Mr. Druce. According to DeCandolle, they are reliable 
to D. cong 
by 7. see Pers. Syn. i 97 (1805) ; see Beauvois’s admissi 
1 
. 180. 
85. Fibichia umbellata Koel. Gram. 309. — The authority is 
misprinted Koch. 
1686. Sieglingia arr Bernh. Erf. 44 (1800). Danthonia 
decumbens DC. Fl. Fr. iii. 88 (1805). Triodia decumbens Beauv. 
. 76 (1812 
8. Sesleria corulea Ard. Spec. ii. 18 (1764).—Quoted by 
Seopa who should not figure as the author 
. Molinia caerulea Monch, Meth. 188 (1794). — The genus 
was Peanded by: Schrank, Baier. Fl. i. 834 (1784), who termed this 
plant M. varia; he did ms print the generic name ilia, as 
P. nemoralis fe aia Gaud. Agrost. i. 179 (1811). 
—Leers does not appear to have given distinctive names to his 
varieties.— Var. glaucantha Reichb. Fl. Exe. 47 (1880). Var. cesia 
pa i. = 1811 
t He etica ‘ine nke, in Jirasek, Beob. Riesengeb. ce 
ar91) = Bids the thuap i Willdenow, this (also P. lava n 
cited as “ sudetica” by botanists blindly copying the citation given in 
Sp i «This is given in the ‘ ’s Fl 
earlier name. It was called P. Chaiwii in Vill. Delph. 1785.”— 
Journan or Borany.—Vow. 25. [Nov., 1887.] Zz 
