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(V. canina L. = V. ericetorum Schrad.). In addition to that it 

 happens that according to Reichenbach (1823) and Rouy and Foucaud, 

 Fl. Fr. (1896) the V. canina, Hayne, I.e. iii. (1813) belongs to canina 

 auct., so that this author has not yet seized the exact splitting up of 

 the Linnean aggregate species (his ericetorum is consequently a super- 

 fluous name) one such resulted first in 1814, through Schultes (Oesterr. 

 Fl. ed. 2, 1814) in which canina L. is specified in the sense of canina 

 auct. rec. and silvestris Kit. = silvatica Fr. vel Riviniana Rchb. . . 

 [Here I may interpolate the fact that Schrader never published V. 

 ericetorum.} Only after the Fl. Suecica did Linnaeus cite the synonymy 

 of Haller and Bauhin, which consist, according to Wilmott, for the most 

 part of V. Riviniana (and silvestris), and which this author brings 

 forward as being decisive of his view. But the circumstance that the 

 older English authors (up to about 1800) have used the name canina 

 in the sense of Riviniana respecting silvestris, cannot be held to turn 

 the scales in the face of the incongruity with the Linnean diagnosis 

 and in opposition to the restriction in his Flora Suecica (conf. also the 

 very just remarks of Reichenbach Fl. Germ. Excurs. sect. 3, 1832). 

 The herbarium of Linnaeus, as is often the case, can give no reliable 

 explanation of the question : according to Fries (1842) the V. canina, 

 Linn. Herb, belongs to silvatica ; according to Wilmott, on the other 

 hand, it represents a mixture of canina auct. and rupestris Schmidt." 

 Lactuca alpina Benth. appears under the unusual name Cicerbita 

 alpina Wallroth. 



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