166 Rhodora [AvavsT 
two ridges, and two ridges being between two adjoining placentae. 
The attachment of the placentae is opposite the petals, and the ovules 
are numerous. 
All the specimens above described are in my herbarium. 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
LONICERA PROLIFERA AND L. FLAVIDA. 
ALFRED REHDER. 
In the new edition of Gray's Manual the name Lonicera Sullivantit 
is adopted as the valid name for that species, but a strict application 
of the Vienna code of nomenclature will necessitate a change, as the 
oldest valid specific name for the species is Caprifolium proliferum 
Kirchner, antedating Gray's name by almost twenty years.  Kirchner's 
description in this case is rather good and there can be no doubt about 
the species he had in mind. Moreover I have seen herbarium speci- 
mens under the name of Caprifolium proliferum and L. prolifera col- 
lected in European gardens in the sixties, two of them preserved in the 
herbarium of the St. Louis Botanic Garden, which represent the same 
species. The combination Lonicera prolifera is not entirely new, for 
it was published, though without any description, as far back as 1840. 
The authority cited ‘‘Booth Cat.” corresponds with the information 
Kirchner gives who says that he obtained the species from the nurseries 
at Flottbeck; Booth’s nursery at Flottbeck was at that time one of ` 
the best known in Germany and famous for its collections of rare and 
new plants. This shows that the Lonicera in question has been in 
cultivation in Europe for at least seventy years and has been considered 
a distinct species by German horticulturists. I append here the 
synonymy of the species omitting Rafinesque’s Lonicera rupestris and 
L. reticulata quoted in my Synopsis of the genus Lonicera with a query 
under L. Sullivantii; these two species being very doubtful may not be- 
long to Lonicera at all. 
Lonicera prolifera (Kirchner) n. comb.— [L. prolifera Booth Cat. 
ex Heynhold, Nomencl. Bot. Hort. I. 476. 1840, nomen nudum. 
L. spec. nov. Sullivant, Cat. Plant. Columbus 29, 57. 1840.] L. 
