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later name should be replaced by Marshall’s, which was published 
four years earlier. The name for the American Beech would then 
become Fagus atropunicea (Marsh.) =f. sylvatica atro-punicea, 
Marsh. (I. c. 1785)= F. ferruginea, Aiton (1. c. 1789). 
Carpinus Caroliniana, Walter (Flora Car. 238, 1788). The first 
name applied to this species is that of Marshall, Carpinus Setulus 
Virginiana (Arbustum Am. 25, 1785), antedating Walter's name 
by three years. There can be no reasonable doubt as to what 
- plant Marshall applied his name, either as shown in his diagnosis 
of the genus Carpinus or in his description of the “American — 
Hornbeam.” Walter’s long-established—but misapplied—specific 
name Caroliniana should, therefore, give place to Marshall's earlier 
—but .equally misapplied—Virginiana, the name for the Blue 
Beech then becoming Carpinus Virginiana (Marsh.)=C. Betulus 
Virginiana, Marshall (I. c. 1785)=C. Caroliniana, Walter (1. c. 1788) 
=C. Americana, Lam. (Encycl. iv. 708, 1797). 
Salix lasiandra, var. Fendleriana, Bebb. (Bot. Calif. ii. 84, 
1880), Nuttall appears to have been the first tu describe this 
Western willow, under the name Salix pentandra, var. caudata 
(Sylva i. 61, t. 18, 1842), a name which is commonly cited as a 
Synonym of var. /endleriana. Prof. Bebb’s reason, if any exists, 
for not maintaining the older varietal name for this plant is un- 
known to us at present; but as it is well known to be the original 
name, it seems desirable to now reinstate Nuttall’s var. cauvdata, 
which would give S. lasiandra, var. caudata (Nutt)= S. pentendra, 
var. caudata, Nuttall (1. c., 1842)== S. dasiandra var. Fendleriana, 
Bebb (I. ¢., 1880). : 
Populus monilifera, Aiton (Hort. Kew. iii. 406, 1789). Mar- 
shall describes a tree under the name Populus deltoide(Arbustum 
Am., 106, 1 785), which cannot be ignored as inapplicable to one 
of our Eastern Poplars. Koch (Dendrologie ii. Pt. 1, 487), doubt-_ 
fully referred Marshall’s species (corrected to “deltoides”’) to Popu- 
lus grandidentata, Michx., and later Prof. Sargent makes ita syno- 
nym of P. monilifera,a decision which, we believe, is correct. For — S 
a careful examination of the various forms and stages of leafde- 
velopment of this cottonwood does not require imagination to 
reconcile Marshall’s description of this tree. The geographical a 
range indicated by him is, moreover, in accordance with what is 
