148 Rhodora [AvavsT 
of flowering, it resembles the latter of its supposed parents.— H. H. 
BARTLETT, Gray Herbarium. 
MACLURA POMIFERA (Rar. SCHNEIDER.—In the May issue of 
Ruopora (ix. 91) I noted the fact that the Osage Orange, a common 
hedge plant of the Middle West and an occasional escape from cultiva- 
tion in New England, should according to the Vienna Rules of nomen- 
clature bear the name Maclura pomijera. I was not aware at the time 
that this particular combination had been used in print. "Through the 
kindness of Mr. Alfred Rehder of the Arnold Arboretum I learn that 
the binomial Maclura pomifera was published about a year earlier in a 
short supplement of the first volume of C. K. Schneider's detailed 
Illustriertes Handbuch der Lauholzkunde (i. 806). — B. L. ROBINSON, 
Gray Herbarium. 
Vol. 9, no. 103, including pages 109 to 124, was issued 12 August, 1907. 
