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lished in 1769, practically a reprint of the first but with the addition 
of twenty plates reduced from the Vegetable System, the plant re- 
appears as S. ovata (p. 242) with a reduced and reversed copy of the 
plate in the Vegetable System, where it had been called S. pilosa. 
There seems to be no way of deciding definitely as to the priority of 
the first edition of the Hortus over the thirteenth volume of the 
System, or vice versa. However, as the twelfth volume of the latter 
work, published in 1767 (but dated 1773), is quoted at various places 
in the Hortus, while the thirteenth is not, it seems probable that the 
Hortus appeared before the thirteenth volume of the System. They 
were clearly all under preparation at the same time, for some species 
first published in the twelfth volume (1767) are also published as 
“Species Novae" in the Hortus of 1768, and reappear under this same 
title, with the addition of plates from the twelfth volume of the System, 
in the second edition of the Hortus in 1769, with references to the plates 
of the twelfth volume. Accordingly it seems wisest to adopt the name 
Scutellaria ovata Hill in place of S. versicolor Nutt., particularly since 
this course permits according to International Rules the retention of 
the well-known name S. pilosa Michx. for that species, which would 
otherwise require to be changed to S. ovalifolia Pers. The types of 
S. versicolor Nutt. and S. caroliniana Walt., both in the British Mu- 
seum, are identical with the plant here taken as S. ovata Hill. S. 
caroliniana Poir. (Ency. vii. 106 (1806)), the type of which I have 
examined at Paris, is S. integrifolia L. 
In the Hortus Kewensis of Hill his S. ovata was described as follows: 
" Caulis bipedalis, ramosus, subhirsutus. Folia ovata. Flores axil- 
lares, rubescentes. Biennis. Ex America boreali. Julio florens." 
In the System a better description was given: “Scutellaria Pilosa. 
The Leaves are hearted, nurled, and obtuse: the Twi igs are downy. 
This is a Perennial, native of North America; a Plant of two feet 
high, flowering in July. The Stalk is brown: the Leaves are of a dull 
dead green: the Flowers are crimson: and the Seed- vessels of a dusky 
reddish hue." Despite Hill's description of the flowers as reddish, 
changed to "crimson" in the System, his character is otherwise so 
applieable and the peculiar fruit of the species is so naturallv, if 
sketchily, represented in his figure that the identification of his 
plant with Nuttall's S. versicolor seems perfectly safe. .Mr. James 
Britten has kindly called my attention to a fourth publication of this 
species as new (as S. pilosa) by Hill in vol. xvii. (p. 19 t. 20) of the 
