Studies of the Types of Various Species of the Genus Carex (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890. Excerpt: ... MEMOIRS OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. Vol. I. No. 1. STUDIES OF THE TYPES OF VARIOUS SPECIES OF THE GENUS CAREX. Notes on Carex.--XL By L. H. Bailey. (Read Feb. 12, 1889), An attempt has been made during the past year to see all the existing types of North American species of Carex. These types are widely scattered, largely in the Old World, and the whereabouts of many of them have been entirely unknown. Many of them had never been seen by a student of the genus since their publication, and there was reason to believe that some species which had been seen by our earlier botanists have not been properly comprehended in the light of our fuller knowledge. The examination has proved that many of our catalogued species are fictitious, and that considerable changes in nomenclature must be made. However much sucli radical changes are to be regretted, they are nevertheless unavoidable if priority of publication is to be considered; and there is the surety that in the future changes must be very few. The very oldest types have been seen, so far as they are known to exist, and almost every name which has been applied to North American species is accounted for and understood. It is therefore evident that any further changes in the names of our species must be almost entirely such as rest upon judgments of the systematic merits of accepted species and varieties. Earlier numbers were published as follows: I. Bot. Gaz. ix. 117-122, (Aug., 1884); II. Bot. Gaz. ix. 137-141, (Sept, 1884); III. Bot. Gaz. x. 203-208, (Jan. 1885); IV. Bot. Gaz. x. 293-295, (June, 1885); V. Bot. Gaz. x. 317-319, (Aug, 1885); VI. Bot. Gaz. x. 379-382, (Nov., 1885); VII. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. xxii. 59-157, (1886); VIII. Bot. Gaz. xi. 328-330, (Dec., 1886); IX. Bot. Gaz. xiii. 82-89, ...