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also number “2,” it is fair to say that our northern species is the 
description, specimen, distribution, and history are unanimous in 
declaring that our. northern species is the type or origin of the 
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but it would appear from a consideration of the citations given 
by Hudson (loc. cit.) that such was not this author’s view. On 
the contrary, he most carefully restricted the phrases ‘‘panicula 
nutante simplici”’ (Sp. Pl.) and “ Melica floribus sub culmo pen- 
dulis” (Fl. Lapp.) to the northern species (his M. montana); and 
by any conceivable interpretation, be 
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and (c) that in giving the name M. nutans to our common species, 
he was using a name which was already applied to another legiti- 
Hudson’s names which I am here presenting is not new. It is, 
in fact, indicated in the writings of the older systematists, for 
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