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Walter 



It did not 



occur to me at the time to look up authors intermediate between 

 Linnseus and Marshall, to whom the tree might have been 

 known ; and now, in pondering some of the pages of that monu- 

 mental work, the eighth edition of Philip Miller's Gardener's 

 Dictionary, I discover to my amazement that that renowned 

 author knew both species of Gleditschia, and that to him belongs 

 the honor of having given a specific name, under the Linnsean 

 law, to the one-seeded species. Marshall's name has but three 

 years of priority over that of Walter, but Miller's is seventeen 

 years earlier than that of Marshall ! 



Hesperochiron nanus (Lindl.) 



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Nicotiana nana, Lindl, Bot. Reg. x., t. 833 (1824.) 

 Oiivisia Calif ornica, Benth., PI. Hartw., 327 (1849.) 

 Hesperochiron Calif amicus, S. Watson, Bot King, 281, t. 30 

 (1871.) 



The late Mr. Bentham in niihli5;hina h\<^ Onris^ia 



. Bentham in publishing his Ourisia Califormca, 

 did not identify it with Lindley's Nicotiana nana. Until long 

 after the year 1849 that was believed to be truly a Nicotiana. 



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The occasion of raising the species to the rank of a new generic 

 type was the best time to have taken up the old specific name ; 

 but it does not appear to have been then known or suspected 



Bibliographical Notes on well known Plants— VIII 



By Edward L. Greene. 



Gleditschia inermis, Mill Diet ed. 8 (17^8-) 



Gleditschia triacantJios^ /? Linn. Sp. 1057 (i753-) 



Gleditschia aquatica^ Marsh. Arb. 54 (1785*) 



Gleditschia Carolinensis, Lam. EncycL ii. 465 (17^^*) 



Gleditschia monosperma, Walt. Carol. 254(1788.) 



Acacia Abru(2 folio triacanthoSyCapsiila ovali tmiciim semen 



claudente, Catesb. Carol, i. 43 (1741.) | 



In last November's issue of the BULLETIN I had the pleasure 

 of exhibiting what I then understood to be Humphry Marshall s 

 right of earliest authorship in the specific name of this southern 

 honey locust, as being three years earlier than that imposed by 



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