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SHOET NOTES. 



The Nomenclature of Spakganium. — With reference to the 

 nomenclature of the Spargania used by me in my previous paper, 

 I may say it was no "adjustment" of mine, as I simply followed 

 the last edition of the ' Students' Flora.' Nor did I see any neces- 

 sity in a paper on Scotch Botany to refer to a plant which (although 

 an object of my northern search) was unknown as British, i.e., the 

 8. nutans Fries in Diar. Bot. Not. a. 1849, non alior.— the S. Friesii 

 Beurl. ; and I must demur to the suggestion that I was unaware 

 of its existence, for I had four or five years ago examined speci- 

 mens collected by F. Ahlberg, which showed it differed considerably 

 from S. minimum Fr. or S. a fine Schnizl., although Syme was 

 unable to say " if it and 8. affine were really distinct." Which of 

 these plants should bear the name of S. nutans L. (for it has been 

 ascribed to each of the three segregates mentioned) I leave Mr. 

 Daydon Jackson to decide. If it be the 8. nutans Fries (and of Linn. 

 Fl. Lapp.), the S. Friesii Beurl., then it will be borne by a plant 

 of limited distribution, confined as it is, according to Nyman, 

 to Ross. Fenn. and Suec, and apparently against the views of the 

 majority of European authorities. If bestowed upon S. a/fine 

 Schnizl. (S. longifolium Don MS.), then it will be given to a widely 

 distributed plant, the 8. nutuns L. p.p. {fide Nyman), of Gren. et 

 Godr.,of Hooker and Arnott, of Babington, of Hook. fil. et auct. var., 

 but not of Fries fide Hartm. In either case the difficulties pointed 

 out when these names are used in a restricted sense would be 

 experienced, and which I felt when I wrote S. ramosum Huds., 

 since I had to add S. nefiectum not seen in order to convey the fact 

 that it was the segregate I referred to. I have never stated, sug- 

 gested, nor thought that S. affine Schnizl. was identical with 8. 

 Friesii Beurl. ; it is advisable " to avoid making a man say what he 

 lias not said." In ed. i. Fl. Lapp, (an ante binomial work) the plant 

 is described as Sparganium foliis natantibus piano convexis, and is so 

 quoted in ed. ii. of Spec. PL ; but Linnaeus also quotes as synonyms 

 Under S. natans Bay's Sparganium minimum and Dillenius' (Cat. 

 Giss.) Sparganium non ramosum minus, which are certainly not 

 *nes' natans.— G. C. Deuce. 



With Mr. Druce's permission, the Editor has allowed me to 

 read the above article, and I will add a note respecting Sparganium 

 natans. The lengthened citation given by Nyman—" S. nutans (L.) 

 **. m Diar. Bot. Not. a. 1849 (non alior.) "—is rendered necessary, 

 a J all events temporarily, by reason of the repeated misapplications 

 of the name nutuns by botanists writing on the flora of countries in 

 w hich the true plant does not occur. I think that S. natans L. and 

 *. nutans Fries are synonymous. The work of Fries (who, however, 

 J J d not understand S. affine) was to expound the original plant of 

 ^wmaus, rather than to add greatly to the description; and he 

 continually quotes the description of Linnams with admiration. S. 



JJJJJ2J Frie s was quoted by me as an example of this form of name 

 n*vw.__ ... _. ^^ ^ being preferable to S. Frwsii 



sometimes actually used 

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