50 Rhodora [Marcu 
very good to make hedges and inclosures for fields — Also in the sec- 
tion between the Work House and Salt House, adjoining the Pride of 
China Plants, and between the rows in which the Carolina laurel seeds 
had been sowed, 46 of the Pistatia nut in 3 rows — And in the places 
where the Hemlock pines had been planted and were dead, Et. & Wt. 
of the Garden gates, the seeds of the Piramidical Cyprus 75 in number 
— all of which with others were presented to me by Mr. Michaux, 
Botanist, to his Most Christian Majesty.” 
July Ist. 
“Planted 4 of the Ramnus Tree (an evergreen) one on each side of 
the Garden gates — a peg with 2 notches drove down by them (Pegs 
No. 1 being by the Pyramidical Cyprus) — also planted 24 of the 
Philirea latifolio — (an evergreen shrub) in the Shrubberies by Pegs 
No. 3 — and 48 of the Cytire — a tree produced in a cold climate of 
quick growth, by pegs No. 4 — All these plants were given to me by 
Mr. Michaux." 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 
NOTES ON THE GENUS SABATIA. 
S. F. BLAKE. 
(Plate 112.) 
1. SABATIA DIFFORMIS (L.) Druce (S. lanceolata (Walt.) T. & G. p 
Swertia difformis L. Sp. i. 226 (1753). Chironia lanceolata Walt. Fl. 
Car. 95 (1788). Sabbatia corymbosa Baldw. ex Ell. Sk. i. 283 (1817). 
Sabbatia lanceolata * (Walt.) T. & G. ex Gray, Man. ed. 1. 356 (1848). 
Sabbatia difformis (L.) Druce, Bot. Exch. Club Rep. 1913, iii. pt. 5, 
422 (1914), as to name-bringing synonym only.— The Clayton type 
of Swertia difformis L., which was based on Gronovius's " Gentiana 
folis linearibus acuminatis, pedunculis longissimis nudis unifloris 
oppositis" (Fl. Virg. ed. 1. 30 (1739)), is in the British Museum and 
1 The name Sabbatia lanceolata first occurs in Raf. Fl. Tell. iii. 30 (1836), but is there 
merely a nomen without synonym. 
