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me with but one or two spiculæ, it will be very important to me, I mean from british specimens.
Withering has some how or other got from Afzelius information that the Linnn. specns. are only the viviporous vary. of alpina, which is totally erroneous; & he quotes him for as strange a blunder p. 160 that Bromus secalinus, hordeaceus & racemosus are all the same in the Linn. herbm, & all varieties of mollis. Afzelius could not have made such a mistake. Wittering blunders too about Cerastium vulgatum & viscosum.
I have had P. alpina sent me from Scottd .for bulbosa.
In short this genus is very ill understood in Engld.
I will not intrude any longer on your time, than to beg an ansr.
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