1924] Fernald,—New Plants of Eastern America 127 
was merely a list of names and the complete treatment under nos. 
83 and 84 was as follows: 
“83* Troximon ciliatum. 1 M. 
84* ——— glaucum. 1 M." 
This certainly does not constitute satisfactory publication of a genus. 
The next reference commonly given is to Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 
505 (1814). But Pursh gave absolutely no generic diagnosis and 
ascribed the genus without question to Gaertner and to Persoon. 
'That Pursh had no thought of setting up a new genus is perfectly 
evident from the fact that he has two species, T. glaucum which is 
an Agoseris, and T. virginicum which was one of the original species 
of Troximon Gaertn. Nor did Nuttall in his Genera, ii. 127 (1818) 
indicate any intent to set off a new genus Trorimon as distinct from 
Gaertner's genus; for he ascribed Troximon directly to Gaertner and 
he so far accepted Gaertner's definition as to include the oriental 
T. lanatum which belongs to the genus Scorzonera. 
In 1817 Rafinesque properly published Agoseris! and again, in 
1819? he gave a good characterization of the genus. "There is no 
question, then, that AcosEnIs Raf. (1817) is the correct name for the 
genus which still passes erroneously as Troximon " Nutt.," and that 
TROXIMON Gaertn. (1791) is the correct name for Cynthia D. Don 
(1829). 
NOTES ON SOME RHODE ISLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN 
MASSACHUSETTS PLANTS. 
S. N. F. SANFORD. 
GLAUCIUM FLAVUM Crantz. (Glaucium luteum Scop.) The Great- 
horned Sea-poppy, an introduced plant of somewhat rare occurrence 
and brief residence, is appropriately named because its mature pods 
are nearly a foot long and its usual habitat is on sea cliffs or in the 
beach shingle along salt rivers. Even when found in other waste 
places the locality is generally near the coast. 
Early botanists reported? stations on Conanicut Id., Prudence 
Id., and Portsmouth, R. L, and the writer has collected the plant on 
the ocean bluffs at Seaconnet Pt., Little Compton, R. I., at Mt. 
1 Raf. Fl. Ludov. 58 (1817). 
? Raf. Journ. de Phys. Ixxxix. 100 (1819). 
*Proc. Newport (R. I.) Nat. Hist. Soc., 1885-6, p. 5, 13. 
