New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts

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Varietal grass names and combinations published by Hackel in Cheeseman's Manual of the New Zealand Flora, 1906

E. EDGAR

Botany Division, DSIR
Private Bag, Christchurch, New Zealand

H. E. CONNOR

Centre for Resource Management
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand

Abstract A number of varietal names and new combinations for grasses were cited with the authority Hack. MS., in the first edition of Cheese- man's "Manual of the New Zealand Flora" (1906). There has been some uncertainty whether these names should be attributed to Hackel or to Cheese- man. A comparison of diagnostic descriptions in Hackel's letters to Cheeseman, held at the Auck- land Institute and Museum Library, with descrip- tions in Cheeseman's Manual, confirmed that all names should be attributed to Hackel.

Keywords New Zealand grasses; Hackel; Cheeseman; Manual of the New Zealand Flora

Received 11 September 1986; accepted 18 September 1986
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1987, Vol. 25 : 455-457
0028-825X/87/2503-0455$2.50/0 © Crown copyright 1987

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