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unrestricted sense, and is therefore still-born. Kitaibel was the 

 first to separate from V. canina the plant in question ; and 

 Reichenbach, when further restricting the species by the separa- 

 tion of V. Biviniana, quotes Kitaibel for the restricted V. sylvestris. 



60. Dianthus gratianopolitanus Vill. (1789.) There is no 

 question that D. glaucus Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 2, 185 (1778) is 

 D. casius Smith (1792), for which D. gratianopolitanus was 

 adopted as an earlier name. Hudson refers to it as the Cheddar 

 Pink, and quotes an excellent description and figure from Dillenius 

 (Hort. Elth. 401, t. 298, f. 385). In ed. 1 of the Flora Anglica, 

 Hudson merely copied Linnaeus's diagnosis and his citation from 

 Dillenius (Hort. Elth. 400, t. 298, f. 348 [384] )— the latter referring 

 to an entirely different plant — with the addition of the Cheddar 

 locality. D. glaucus of Linnaeus Sp. PL 411 is thus very doubt- 

 ful ; the specimen in his herbarium is certainly not D. ccesius. 

 We therefore abandon him as the authority for D. glaucus, and 

 cite it as of Hudson, ed. 2 ; plants in Herb. Mus. Brit., " from Curtis 

 as glaucus Huds." are noted by Smith, " This glaucus Huds. is a 

 new species." Linnaeus gives " Anglia" as the habitat, but this, as 

 appears from his Flora Anglica (p. 16), was based on a reference to 

 Ray Syn. iii. 336, n. 2, which includes more than the Cheddar plant. 



62. Silene maritima With. (1796) is antedated by S. amcena 

 Huds. Fl. Angl. 164 (1762). 



72. Cerastium viscosum L. and C. vulgatum L. Owing to 

 the undoubted confusion which lias arisen from Linnaeus onwards 

 in the use of these names, Schinz & Thellung abandon them ; but 

 after careful consideration we prefer to retain them, as we are 

 unwilling to abandon names given by Linnaeus unless it seems 

 absolutely necessary. 



75. Alsine. We retain the generic name Alsine. It is true 

 that Spergidaria occurs in the list of names to be retained which 

 forms an appendix to the Vienna Kules, but it is inserted in that list 

 only with reference to the two genera of Adanson — Buda and Tissa 

 and not to the Linnean genus Alsine. We also follow Hiern 

 (Journ. Bot. 1899, 317) in regarding the British species as con- 

 generic with Alsine segetalis L. 



85. Hypericum quadrangulum L. Schinz & Thellung wish 

 to substitute for this H. acutum Moench Method. 128. This, 

 however, is a still-born name, being an absolute synonym of 

 H. quadrangulum L., which Moench cites. He occasionally sub- 

 stituted new trivials for those previously given, e. g. on p. 129 

 three other Linnean species of Hypericum are renamed. H. acutum 

 cannot therefore be used in the restricted sense of the later name, 

 H. tetraptenim Fries. We follow Crantz (Stirp. Austr. ed. 2, 98, 

 1769), who retains the name quadrangulum for part of the original 

 Linnean species (he cites the Linnean synonymy of Bauhin), and 

 makes a second species, H. macidatum, which we also retain. 



89. Oxalis strict a L. and O. corniculata L. There is no 

 doubt as to the identity of these plants. Linnaeus copied his 

 diagnosis of 0. stricta from Gronovius Virg. 161, and gives the 



