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RECENT publications containing references to this plant have used the name C. edmondstonii (Wats.) Murb. and Ost.1 in preference to the older name C. arcticum Lange2. The objection to using the older name is, according to Hylander3, that “there is no authentic, i.e. chosen by Lange, type specimen”. But this in itself is no reason for dismissing the older name since the description is validly published. Moreover, Murbeck and Osterfeld in their description1 only redescribed Lange's plant. They also took the varietal epithet, var. edmondstonii, and gave it specific rank. This is in contradiction to the rules of botanical nomenclature, and therefore the name C. edmondstonii is illegitimate.
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BRETT, O. Cerastium arcticum Lange. Nature 171, 527–528 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171527b0
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