285 



F- 



cceformis,mchK.,i., Hist. Arbres Amer., i., 211, t. 10; Carya 



myristiccefori 



With Ca^ Texana, C. DC, Ann. Sci. Nat. (IV), xviii., 33, 

 I am entirely unacquainted. 



The Herbaria are not without indications of additional forms 

 to those I have been able to separate. Noteworthy among these 

 IS a specimen collected by Mr. Curtiss at Lookout Mountain, 

 Tenn., and preserved in the National Herbarium. It is in fruit, 

 and belongs, I suspect, to the group with thin husks. The fruit 

 IS oblong, an inch in length and strongly four- winged by the pro- 

 jectuig edges of the involucre valves. The leaflets are uniformly 

 seven, ovate-Ian^eolate, acuminate, and remarkably pale beneath, 

 in which character it differs from all the species I know. There 

 IS a shght amount of pubescence on the rachis and midveins. 



In the mountains of Sussex County, New Jersey, there oc- 

 curs a form of H. glabra, which has more or less pubescence on 

 the lower surfaces of the leaves, and particularly on the rachis 

 at the base of the leaflets. 



Bibliographical Notes on well known Plants.— IX. 



By Edward L. Greene. 



i 



Unifolium. 



X have recently, in a single short paragraph,* called attention 

 to this, that neither the name Smilacina, which still holds place 

 in our American books, nor Tovaria, adopted by Mr. Baker in 

 "IS late comprehensive revision of the genus, is the lawful generic 

 name of our stellate- flowered kinds of Solomon's Seal. 



In the paragraph alluded to I suggested that Polygonastriini, 

 Moench, must be older than Smilacina, Desf, and so it is; yet 

 even Moench's name is three years later than Tovaria, Necker, 

 X^^. Gray, who took exception to the use of Tovaria here, did 

 so on the ground that, long before Necker, Adanson had framed 

 the name Tovara for a certain ambiguous Polygonaceous type. 

 ^"t that which must more positively and indeed quite unques- 

 tionably displace Tovaria, as well as Smilacina, is the fact that 

 Adanson himself recognized the genus and gave it the name 

 ^agnera\ so that this is older than Tovaria by twenty-seven 



*Pittoiua, i., 1S7. 



