Avena spicata Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 80. 1753.

"Habitat in Pensylvania." RCN: 679.

Lectotype (Hitchcock in Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 12: 123. 1908): Kalm, Herb. Linn. No. 95.21 (LINN; iso- 95.22 LINN) .

Current name: Trisetum spicatum (L.) K. Richt. ( Poaceae).

Note: See Baum (in Canad. J. Bot. 45: 1850. 1967) on the eligibility of the Kalm material as a lectotype. Questions of this sort can now frequently be resolved by the provisions of Art. 9.8.