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based on Agrostrs ventricosa Gouan Hort. Monsp. 39, 1762, and is 

 earlier than Milium lendigerum L. Sp. PL 91, 1763. Bromus 

 pratensis Ehrh. ex. Hoffm. Deutsch. FL, ed. 2, ii., 52, 1800, vice 

 B. commutatus Schrader. This I should only give as a sub-sp. B. 

 pratensis (Ehrh.), comb. nov. Carex verna Vill., vice C. caryophyllea 

 Latour. C. Hostiana DC, vice C. Hornschuchiana Hoppe ; but has 

 not C.fulva Host been overlooked 1 Carex fusca All. Fl. Pedem. ii., 

 269, 1785, not of Herb, or of L. C. Bailey, vice C. Goodenowii Gay. 

 [C. fusca has been used in varied senses.] Armoracia lapathifolia 

 Gilib. Fl. Lituan. iv., 53, 1782, vice A. rusticana G. M. et S. Fl. 

 Wett. ii., 426, 1800. Potentilla parviflora Gaudin ex Mirith Guide 

 Bot. Vallis, 88, 1810, vice P. thuringiaca Bernh. in Link Enum. Hort. 

 Berolii, 64, 1822. Oxytropis sericea L. (Lam.), Simonkai Enum. PL 

 Transs. 178, 1886, vice 0. uralensis DC. Astrag. 68, 1802. Vicia 

 tenuissima (M. Bieb.) Schinz & ThelL, comb, nov., vice V. gracilis, 

 Lois. Fl. Gall, ii., 460, 1807. It is based on Ervum tenuissimum 

 Marsc.-Bieb., Tabl. Casp. 185 app.n. 55, 1798. Epilobium alpinum 

 L. is properly retained in the usual sense. Uva-ursi is adopted instead 

 of Arctostaphylos Sprengel, a dangerous precedent. Why not then 

 adopt Dens-leonis Hill, etc 1 Symphytum uplandicum Nyman Syll. 

 Fl. Europ. 80, 1854, vice S. peregrinum Briggs in Bot. Exch. 

 Rep. for 1877-8, 17, but see Index Sem. Hort. Dorpat. 4, 

 1820. Rhinanthus is wisely retained instead of Alectoro- 

 lophus. Orobanche barbata Poiret, vice 0. minor Sm., and O. 

 vulgaris Poiret, vice 0. caryophyllacea Sm., as suggested by Mr F. 

 Williams. Galium pumilum Murray Prod. St. Gott. 44, 1770, vice 

 G. asperum Schreber, 1771. Arctium nemorosum Lej. & Court, in 

 Mag. d'Hort. i., 289-290, 1833, et Comp. Fl. Belg. iii., 129, 1836, vice 

 Arctium intermedium Lange Handb. Dan. FL 463, 1851, et vice A. 

 vulgare A. H. Evans in Journ. Bot. 117, 1913, " non Lappa vulgaris 

 Hill." The following is an abstract of their views : — " The validity 

 of the name A. nemorosum Lej. k Court, has been in recent times 

 repeatedly attacked (especially by A. V. Hayek, Dalla Torre, 

 Sarntheim, Druce, Moss, etc.). The ground is this, that in the Kew 

 Index it is to be deplored that the two oldest citations of 1833 and 

 1836 are wanting and (as the reference for A. nemorosum) only 

 " Lejeune in Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ, xv., 81" [erroneously instead of 

 54) is given, where the name stands only in the synonymy of L. 

 intermedia. Meanwhile A. nemorosum, with the authority " Lej. et 



