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the margin opposite Crept* nudicaulis, which in ed. 2 was placed 

 under L. hirtum (there first published) as a synonym. The MS. 

 locality quoted by Mr. Williams appears, not in Sp. PL but in the 

 notes on the plant described in Solander's MSS. as L. nudicaule : it 

 runs " Habitat ad Petersfield in Hampshire Angliae (Alchorne), in 

 Madera " — the two last words were added later. Solander also gives, 

 on another page, the locality " Habitat copiose prope Revesby in 

 Lincolnshire." t I 



In calling the plant nadicaulis Solander was adopting the earliest | 

 specific name : it is the Crepis nudicaulis of L. (Sp. PL 805). In 

 his original description, Linnaeus does not refer to the "Hieracium 

 pumilum saxatile asperum prsemorsa radice " of Ray's Synopsis, 

 ed. 3, 167, as a synonym; but this reference — the first record of the 

 plant as British— was added by Hudson (FL Auglica 297 (1762) ), 



who placed Crepis nudicaulis as a synonym of his Leontodon his- 

 pidum /?, and adopted by Linnaeus in his second edition (p. 1128 

 (1763) ), who there renamed C. nudicaulis Leontodon hirtum. There 

 is no specimen of Crepis nudicaulis in the Linnean herbarium, 

 but there is no reason to doubt its identity with the English plant 

 which, as his citation from Ray shows, was certainly contemplated 

 by Linnaeus when he described L. hirtum. Neither Prof. Beck nor 

 Mr. Williams makes any reference to C. nudicaulis, although, as has 

 been shown, Linnaeus himself quotes it as a synonym of L. hirtiun ; 

 hence it is clearly the oldest specific name. 



An examination of Solander's MSS. shows that by his niuiicauhs 

 he primarily intended the British plant, as was pointed out by 

 Lowe in a passage to be quoted later. His descriptions — there are 

 two — were drawn up from Alchorne's specimen, now in the National 

 Herbarium, and from the Revesby plant ; and he cites the synonymy 

 of Kay and Hudson. The reference to the Madeira plant was 

 added later — I think by Banks; the citation of Crepis nudicaut 'is 

 was struck out also, I think, later, as had Solander himself done it 

 he would, as he usually does in such cases of correction, have 

 altered his own name for the plant, which is twice retained. This 

 addition of the Madeira plant led Lowe into an error which he 

 corrected later ; in his Primkim FL Mader. (p. 28) he gave the 

 name Thrincia nudicaulis to the Madeira plant, quoting in synonymy 

 " Leontodon nudicaule Herb. Banks," but later, in his Flora of 

 Madeira (i. 535) says : M The sheet in B H [Banks Herb.] inscribed 

 by Solander propria manu* ■ Leontodon nudicaule Mscr. Madera 

 is truly the common Mad, T. hispida Roth. var. & Lowe. But 

 nudicaule Sol. MSS. in B H is a mixture of this with English 

 T. hirta Roth. For though Solander in his MSS. says of his L. 

 nudicaule • Radix preemorsa,' it is distinctly fusiform or tapshaped 

 in this his original Mad. spec. And his other localities, ■ Revesby 



in Lincolnshire ' and * Petersfield in Hampshire ' show him clearly 

 to have had mainly in view T. hirta Roth." I have already stated 

 the position of this plant when commenting on the name as pub- 



♦ The name is not in Solander's hand, but in that of one of the clerks 

 employed by Banks, 



