12 Rhodora [JANUARY 
“sessile. y. foliis ovatis acutis subtus villosis, petiolis brevissimis 
hirtis. 
“Habitat in America septentrionali prope Montes Kattskill. 
J. Bartram. Frutex vix tripedalis. J. Bartram. Obs. Hoc... 
[illegible] — distincta species?” 
The types of these three varieties are all in the British Museum. 
The type of a. lucidum, from “ America sept. J. Bartram 1764 [after 
which 77 has been written in pencil] ” is good V. dentatum L. as now 
taken by all authors. The type of 8. pubescens, marked “Hort. Dr. 
Lee,” and labeled in Solander’s own hand, is a characteristic specimen 
of the plant now passing as V. venosum Britton. A tracing of this 
specimen is now in the Gray Herbarium. The type of y. sessile, 
a flowering scrap with a detached leaf and portion of cyme, labeled 
“America sept. Katskill mountains J. Bartram 1764 [after which 74 
is added in pencil] 3 pedalis,” is the species now passing as V. pubescens 
(Ait.) Pursh and so designated, for instance, in the last edition of 
Gray’s Manual. 
By reference to the treatment in Aiton’s Hortus Kewensis as issued, 
given in a previous footnote, it will be seen that Solander’s y. sessile 
was dropped entirely, and that there is consequently no reference in 
that work to the plant now called V. pubescens. Pursh’s name V. 
pubescens, being based directly on the 8. pubescens of Aiton, must 
therefore be transferred to the species now called V. venosum Britton. 
It is probable, furthermore, that the plant which Pursh really had in 
mind as V. pubescens was V. venosum, for the only specimens of the 
V. dentatum group collected by Pursh which I was able to find at the 
Kew Herbarium consisted of a branch of V. venosum on a sheet with 
two scraps of the somewhat pubescent form of V. dentaium, the whole 
labeled Viburnum dentatum in an old hand which Mr. Skan, the 
librarian at Kew, was not able to identify. 
The oldest name which has been considered to refer to the short- 
petioled plant, the V. pubescens of authors but not of Pursh, is Vibur- 
num villosum Raf. Med. Rep. N. Y. hex. II. v. 361 (1808). Rafi- 
nesque’s name being debarred from use in any case, because of an 
earlier and valid V. villosum of Swartz (1788), his plant was renamed 
V. Rafinesquianum by Schultes in 1820 (Syst. vi. 630). Although 
this name (V. villosum Raf.) may perhaps refer to the short-petioled 
plant, it is so poorly described and figured (in an inedited plate of 
Rafinesque) that its adoption for our plant seems very undesirable. 
