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tions, with the synonyms and several varieties, There is much 
propriety in presenting some of the ¢ anges, observing at the 
same time that this species had been called in our country, to 
1857, C. anceps, Muh. 
C. laxiflora, Lam., 1789, not of Schk. . 
Willd., vol. iv, p. 278, 1805. 
Schk., Tab. Fff, fig. 128, 1812. 
C. ee in part, Schk., Tab. Kkkk, fig. 195, 1812, not 
am, 
Muh. Gram., p. 242, 1817, not Lam. 
C. anceps, Muh. Dewey, Sill Journ., vol. x, p. 86, 1826. 
Tor. Mon. Cyp., p. 414, 1836, and Am. Auth., 
var. pafulifolia, Dew. Carey Ed. 1, and Man. Bot., 1857, and 
var. plantaginea, Boott, both Schk., fig. 195. 
This case shows us the principal cause of the numerous syno- 
nyms in Caricography, viz., their being named b different 
botanists in different places and unknown to each other. In so 
® genus, embracing more than eight hundred species, in all 
quarters of the globe, this fae, ae of names may easily 
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rane where the so-called variety requires as long, or nearly 
* lull a description, as the species itself, there is no objection to 
Giving it the rank of a species, till it is proved that both forms 
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~~ talled them, this proof has not been attained in one case of a 
hundred, Some have been called varieties and so described for 
years, when they have been raised to the place of species, and 
= “awe to: holti, their rank. -Besidea. the instddee: of G: DY. 
cer” already noticed, there are others equally obvious 
(Certain 
* For these reasons, it is difficult for me to ae two of the 
sHeties of this ee in Dr, Boott’s splendid “ Illustrations,” 
sty uck., and C w. In es nes 
€xtension of the description to comprehend two 
or three other and Fi hayes peace es, . 
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