Abstract
The protologue of Festuca arundinacea Schreber (1771: 57) (Poaceae) is stated as ‘panicula spicata stricta, spiculis oblongis, erectis, paucifloris, aristatis, calycibus angustatis’ [panicle spicate, straight, spikelets oblong, erect, few flowered, aristate, calyx (i.e., lower glume) narrow]. Schreber (1771) took this polynomial from Gmelin (1747: 111) and cited Scheuchzer’s polynomial (1719: 266) in synonymy. Schreber (1771) did not mention any collections, but cited the illustration from Scheuchzer’s (1719) Agrostographia (p. 266, tab. V, fig. 18).