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densis Miller.! If, however, one takes the view that Abies canadensis 
is not a valid name (see footnote on the preceding page), as it is against 
the rules of nomenclature in so far as Miller should have used this 
combination for the Hemlock Spruce, the oldest name for the White 
Spruce would be Picea glauca Voss in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. 
XVI. 93. 1907. (Pinus glauca Moench, Verz. Schloss Weissenstein, 
73. 1785.— Pinus lava Ehrhart, Beitr. III. 24. 1788.— Pinus alba 
Aiton, Hort. Kew III. 371. 1789.) 
ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 
FLORA or THE VICINITY or New YORK, A CONTRIBUTION TO PLANT 
Grocrapuy.— This “flora,” by Norman Taylor,? will interest field- 
botanists of New England, for the area covered includes all of Connecti- 
cut as well as southeastern New York, all of New Jersey, and eastern 
Pennsylvania; and much emphasis is given to some of the geographic 
relations of the flora covered. The author's attitude is indicated by 
the statement in the Preface: “The attempt to explain the origin of 
the flora centering near the city, and the factors that have played 
their part in shaping its present composition, has, it seems to the writer, 
greater value than any enumeration of the species could possibly 
have." The author is modest in his approach to a vast question and, 
like most of those who enter such problems, has felt the handicap of 
too limited material for sound generalizations, saying: "no one is so 
conscious of the scarcity of such material as the writer. The book, 
therefore, is not so much a local flora as a method of writing one,—in 
some ways it is little more than a record of the incompleteness of our 
present knowledge." 
As would naturally be expected, “the taxonomy and nomenclature 
have been brought into substantial accord with the second edition ” 
of Britton & Brown's Illustrated Flora;? but the author expresses a 
1 The combination Abies Picea Miller presents a case very similar to that of his 
Abies canadensis. If A. canadensis is considered a valid name, Abies Picea Miller 
must be considered a valid name also, for the oldest specific name for Pinus Abies 
cannot be used, as it would duplicate the name of the genus which is against art. 51, 
2 of the International code, and a new specific name was necessary for which Miller 
choose Picea. In this case it is quite clear that it was not Miller's intention to transfer 
the Linnean name from Pinus to Abies, and the same may have been the case with 
Pinus canadensis L.; we may, therefore, in both cases consider Miller’s names as new 
names. This will prevent the use of the name Abies Picea Lindley in Penny Cycl. I. 
29 (1833) for the European Silver Fir for which the oldest name would then be Abies 
alba Miller, Dict. Ed. 8, no. 1. 1768. (Abies pectinata De Candolle, Fl. Franc. III. 
276. 1805, not Gilibert, nor Poiret). 
2 Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, Vol. V. by Norman Taylor, pp. vi + 
683. Issued January 30, 1915. 
3 See RHODORA, xv. 220 (1913). 
