152 Rhodora [July 



The white-flowered form of S, stcllaris is forma albiflora Britton, 

 Bull. Torr. Hot. CI. xvii. 125 (1890). 

 Gray Herbarium. 



Explanation of Plate 121. 



(All figures X 1). 



Sabatia Kennedyana. 1 anil 2. Base and portion of inflorescence of the 

 type specimen from Centerville, Massachusetts, E. F. Williams. 3. Fruit 

 from Loon Pond, Lakeville, Massachusetts, Fernald A Long, no. 10,210). 



S. dodecandra. 4 and 5. Flower and fruit from Hackensack Marshes, 

 New Jersey, D. C. Eaton. 



S. DBCANDRA. 6, 7 and 8. Basal rosette, flower and fruit from Sumter 

 Co., Georgia, Harper, no. 461. 



NOMENCLATORIAL TRANSFERS. 

 L. H. Bailey. 



In the compiling of the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, it is 

 the intention to avoid the making of new combinations in the names of 

 plants. Unavoidably, a relatively very small number of new combina- 

 tions have arisen, mostly of horticultural varieties and species of 

 minor importance; it is the purpose to make a separate dated list of 

 these when the work is completed. In Vols. V and VI, however, it 

 has been necessary to make an unusual number and some of them 

 affect North American species; and it has seemed best to publish 

 some of them in advance. 



In some of this work I have had the aid of F. Tracy Hubbard, and a 

 number of the combinations are his, as indicated in every case. 



It has been the desire, in the compilation of the Cyclopedia, to 

 accept new generic limitations with caution. The temper of the 

 present time is to find differences, as opposed to the tendency of the 

 immediately preceding workers to find agreements. The analytic 

 intention is the mark of systematic work in this generation as the 

 synthetic intention was the mark of the past generation. There is 

 reason to expect a return from the method of disunion to the method 

 of relationships; and as a work designed for the use of horticulturists, 



