118 Rhodora [JULY 
parently influenced by a note of Smith’s on the sheet in the Linnaean 
Herbarium, identified the name with Pursh's ! Xylosteum ciliatum B. 
album, described as new from specimens collected “on the Rocky- 
mountain" by Lewis, which according to Nuttall? is “ Symphoria 
racemosa of Michaux,’ now cultivated in several gardens near Phila- 
delphia from seeds collected by the late governor Lewis." Later 
authors, such as Gray,‘ Britton and Brown, and the Index Kewensis, 
have been content to refer the Linnaean Vaccinium album to Lonicera 
ciliata Muhl. (= L. canadensis Marsh.) itself, and the combination 
Lonicera alba (not of L. Sp. Pl., which is Chiococca alba (L.) Hitchc.) 
has recently been made on purely synonymic grounds by Druce,® 
without reference to the easily accessible Linnaean type. 
The type specimen in the Linnaean Herbarium represents the 
typical form of Symphoricarpos racemosus Mx., which, as shown by 
Fernald? some years ago, is not the ordinary glabrous-leaved garden 
plant as had long been supposed, but the more common eastern form 
with leaves densely pilose, and somewhat paler but not whitened, on 
the under surface. On the sheet is written in Linnaeus’ hand “4 
album K”; in pencil in an early hand (not known to Mr. B. D. Jack- 
son, who kindly examined it) is the note “baccis albis," from which 
Linnaeus evidently drew his specific name; J. E. Smith has signified 
his opinion that the plant is a Lonicera; and Gray has marked it 
Symphoricarpos racemosus, although he never published this determi- 
nation, but still referred it to Lonicera ciliata when last writing on it 
in 1878. The Snowberry must accordingly drop the name it has 
borne so long and be called 
SyMpPHORICARPOS albus (L.) Blake, n. comb. Vaccinium album L. 
l. c. (1753). Symphoricarpos racemosus Mx. |. c. (1803); Fernald, l. c. 
(1905). Lonicera racemosa (Mx.) Pers. Syn. i. 214 (1805). Sym- 
phoria racemosa (Mx.) Pursh, |. c. (1814). Symphoria leucocarpa 
Hort., S. heterophylla Presl, & S. elongata Presl, in DC. Prod. iv. 339 
(1830), as syn. Symphoria albus Raf. New Fl. iii. 21 (1836). Sym- 
phoricarpos albus * Raf." K. Koch, Dendr. ii. pt. 2. 407 (index) (1873). 
1 Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i. 161 (1814). 
? Nutt. Gen. i. 138 (1818). 
3 This was the form used by Pursh (Fl. i. 162), not Michaux. 
1 Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. pt. i. 201 (1878). 
5 Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. iii. 241 (1898). 
* Bot. Exch. Club Rept. 1913. iii. pt. 5. 420 (1914). 
? Fernald, Ruopora vii. 164—167 (1905). 
