Erodium moschatum (L.)

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 529-556 : 529

Geranium moschatum (Linnaeus) Linnaeus , Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1143. 1759.

"Habitat [in Anglia.]" RCN: 4964.

Basionym: Geranium cicutarium L. var. moschatum L. (1753) .

Lectotype (designated here by Aedo): Herb. Burser XVIII: 58 ( UPS) .

Current name: Erodium moschatum (L.) L’Hér. ( Geraniaceae ).

Note: Greuter (in Candollea 44: 563, f. 2. 1989), citing Rothmaler (in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 49: 272-281. 1940) has argued that this new combination for G. cicutarium var. moschatum L. (1753) was first made in Fl. Anglica 20. 1754. However, Stearn ( Introd. Ray’s Syn. Meth. Stirp. Brit. (Ray Soc. ed.): 56. 1973), in his analysis of names in Fl. Anglica, treated this as a repeat of Linnaeus’ use of moschatum at varietal rank from 1753. Brummitt & Meikle (in Watsonia 19: 181-183. 1993) have argued (in the context of " Primula acaulis (L.) L. ", where there is a similar situation) that there are typographical variants of the thesis which make it unreasonable to interpret this as a new combination.