Notes on genera of Paniceae : I-IV . ed out, and plant is also marked K which indicates that it was collected byKalm. In the second edition of the Species Plantarum (page 81. 1762)Linnaeus corrects himself, giving the name Paspalum dissectum L. based upon Panicum dissectum Sp. pi. 57. (For a full discussion thereader is referred to Hitchcockspaper.) The specimen belongs to thespecies long known under the namePaspalum membranaceum Walt. The masculine form Paspalus wasused by Flixgge (Gram. Monog. ) Boemer and Schultes (Syst. : 290-317. 1817) and by Nees (Agro
Notes on genera of Paniceae : I-IV . ed out, and plant is also marked K which indicates that it was collected byKalm. In the second edition of the Species Plantarum (page 81. 1762)Linnaeus corrects himself, giving the name Paspalum dissectum L. based upon Panicum dissectum Sp. pi. 57. (For a full discussion thereader is referred to Hitchcockspaper.) The specimen belongs to thespecies long known under the namePaspalum membranaceum Walt. The masculine form Paspalus wasused by Flixgge (Gram. Monog. ) Boemer and Schultes (Syst. : 290-317. 1817) and by Nees ( 18-82. 1829).Digitaria Heist, in Fabr. Enura. Fl. Hort. Helm. 207. 1759. This nameis given as follows: Digitaria Heist. Dactylis Bai. Gramen dactylonmajus panicula longa, spicis pluribus nudis crassis. Sloane. This phrasename in Sloane (Voy. Jam. 1 : 112. pi. 69. f. 2. 1707) refers to the specieslater published as Paspalum virgatum L., Sloanes specimen of whichwas examined in the herbarium of the British Museum. This phrase. Fig. 8. Paspalum dissectum. (Two views of spikelet and fruit x 10 diam.) 138 Chase—Notes on Genera of Panicetz. TV. name Linnaeus first cites (as the third synonym) under Panicum dissec-tum (Sp. PI. 57. 1753), but erroneously, the plate being an illustration ofa very different species from the type of P. dissectum in the LinnaeanHerbarium.* Linnaeus later (Sp. PI. ed. 2. 81. 1762) cites this phrasename and plate under Paspalum virgatum and also (op. cit. 1483),erroneously, under Andropogon fasciculatum. According to the Ameri-can Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Canon 10) the publication of Digi-tnria Heist, as a genus would depend upon the specific description [fromSloane] associable by citation with a previously published binomialspecies. While this specific description is cited under Panicum dissectumit is erroneously so; the species to which the description (as well as thefigure) applies has no previously published binomial, and therefore inth
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