NOTES ON THE " LIST OF BRITISH SEED-PLANTS " 443 



457. Eriophorum polystachion L. Sp. PL 52 (1753). Lin- 

 naeus cites Fl. Suec. 1755, which includes the following : — 

 " Linagrostis panicula ampliore Tournef. 

 f3. L. panicula minors Tournef. 

 y. L. palustris angiistifolia, &c, Scheuch." 



Lamarck (Fl. Fran<j. iii. 555 (1778)) alters Linnaeus's name to 

 Linagrostis paniculata ; this is a still-born name. Roth (Fl. Germ, 

 ii. 63 (1789) ) separated the plant with narrow channelled leaves — 

 E. polystachion y of Linnaeus — as E. angustifolium, retaining the 



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But 



nseus s diagnosis {juinagrostis pamcitla ampliore Tournei.j. 

 later authors have apparently neglected Roth and taken E. lati- 

 foliiim Hoppe (Taschenb. 1800, 108) for the flat-leaved part of E. 

 polystachion L., and have used E. polystachion for the plant dis- 

 tinguished as E. angustifolium Roth. 



Linnaeus's E.polystachion therefore represents the following: — 



E. polystachion L. (restrict. Roth (1789)) [ = E. latifolium 

 Hoppe] . 



E. gracile Roth Catal. ii. [259] addend. (1800) = E. poly- 

 stachion L. var. jS. 



E. angustifolium Roth (1789) = E. polystachion L. var. y [E. 

 polystachion Auctt.] . In our List, therefore, E. polystachion L. 

 should stand as E. angustifolium Roth Fl. Germ. ii. 63 (1789), 

 and E. paniculatum Druce as E. polystachion L. Sp. PI. 52 



(restrict. Roth). 



459. Garex. 



11. C. muricata L. We retain this name notwithstanding 

 Mr. E. S. Marshall's note in this Journal (p. 364). We consider 

 that he lays too much stress on the specimens in the Linnean 

 herbarium, neither of which, as he points out, is the plant which 

 we understand by the name. 



22. C. vitilis Fr. is not a British plant. 



26. C. acuta L. In view of the generally expressed doubt as 

 to the Linnean species, we follow Ascherson & Graebner (Syn. 

 Mittel-Eur. Fl. ii. pt. 2, 90) and other continental botanists in 

 abandoning this name in favour of C gracilis Curt. Fl. Lond. 

 fasc. 4, t. 282 (1783). 



33. G. fusca Allioni. Allioni gives no description of this, but 

 puts it in a section with spicis sexit distinctis, whereas the plant 

 of his herbarium, which is the plant known as fusca in Britain, 

 has the top spike androgynous (6ee L. H. Bailey in Mem. Torr. 

 Bot. CI. i. 63). Allioni cites Haller & Scheuchzer, but these re- 

 ferences do not represent the plant of Allioni's herbarium (see 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1907, 399). The earliest available name is 

 G\ polygama Schkuhr Riedgr. 84 (1801). 



61. C, Hornschuchiana Hoppe. An earlier name is C Host- 

 iana DC. Hort. Bot. Monsp. 88 (1813), but De Candolle cites 

 C. fulva Host Gram. iv. t. 95, p. 53 (1809). As C. fulva Good- 

 enough in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 177 (1794) is, as he himself states 



