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78. Solarium (Cryptocarpum) Sabeanum is S. Balbisii, Dun., now re- 

 ferred to S. sisymbrufolium, Lam., the var. acutilobum albiftorunt of Dunal, pro- 

 bably also S. tectum, Pers., and an introduced plant. 



70. Solanum (Lasiocarpa) Linsecumii is Withania sordida, Dunal, Torr.. 

 in Dot. Mex. Bound., p. 155. 



80. Physalis Sabeana is P. lobata, Torr. 



81. Nicotiana glandulosa is N. ipomopsifiora, Dunal; also, JV. trigono- 

 phylla, Dunal, and iV. multiflora, Nutt. ? Torr. For an elucidation of the species 



see Proceed. Amer. Acad , 5, p. 1G6. 



82. Erythrrea calycosa is Gyrandra chironoides, Griseb. and Erytkrcea 

 chironioides, Torr., Dot. Mex. Bound., where the species is cleared up and well 

 figured. 



8:!. Sabbatia fo rmosa is S. campestris, Nutt., a familiar species, beautifully 

 figured in Bot. Mag. No. 5015. 



84. Forestiera autumnalis differs from F. ligustrina, especially the var, 

 pubescens, only in having flowered in summer while the leaves are on. Lindhei- 

 mer collected a similar form at Houston, flowering in July, with full-grown 

 leaves terminating the flowering branches. The specimens of Linsecom and 

 Buckley in Durand's herbarium render it clear that all belong to the common 

 Texan F. ligustrina. 



84a. Fraxinus Americana, pubescens and oblongocarpa (a hy- 

 brid name) are all three absolutely the same species, the differences in the 

 specimens before me being only such as may be found in different trees from 

 the same seed-bed, and are F. pubescens, Lam. 



85. Fraxinus albican s as to the tree intended from New England, Penn- 

 sylvania, &c. is what all American botanists have taken for F. Americana. 

 Whether it be the ash Linnaeus had in view (excluding the syn. of Catesby). 

 viz., the species of Clayton, I am uncertain, although the remark about the 

 fruit, in the second edition of the Species Plantarum, looks to the white ash 

 rather than to F. pubescens or viridis. But, in adopting his vietr of the case, 

 Mr. Buckley had no need to give a new specific name to the white ash. There 

 is, first of all, Marshall's most appropriate name, F. alba. The still older 

 name, F. Novte- Anglice of Wangenheim, probably belongs here, as also F. ju- 

 glandifolia, Lam. and F. discolor, Muhl. But, above all, an undoubted name of 

 the white ash, over half a century old, is F. epiptera, of the elder Michaux. 

 Here, the phrase " capsulis obverse lanceolatis, ima parte teretibus apteris" is per- 

 fectly discriminative. To be sure Mr. Buckley describes his F. albicans, " sa- 

 maris basi subteretib-us, 1 ' 1 and his Americana and pubescens as " ba3i teretibus.'' 

 Now, our white ash, the F. epiptera of Michaux, is well marked by the latter cha- 

 racter, the wing not at all decurrent as a margin on the terete body of the fruit. 

 Turning to Mr. Buckley's Texan specimens in the herbarium of the Academy, 

 I find that there are two, both in fruit; one with the larger leaves and fruit is 

 clearly F. viridis, var. Berlandieriana, Torr., Bot. Mex. Bound. (/'. Berlandieri- 

 ana, DC.) ; the other is, I think, a form of F. Americana (i. e. albicans of 

 Buckley), of the small-fruited form we are familiar with, but with very small 

 leaves as well as fruits, the latter terete and cylindrical in the manner of the 

 species. Upon studying our ashes several years ago, I ventured the opinion 

 that the fruits of F. Americana and F. viridis in the Sylva of the ycunger Mi- 

 chaux were mismatched. This, Mr. Buckley controverts by stating that the 

 descriptions in the letter-press correspond with the figures on the plates. It 

 would be surprising if they did not, both being drawn from the same materials ! 

 The case may easily be tested. The green ash is as well marked by its foliage 

 as the common white ash is by its fruit. When any person shall exhibit upon 



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