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mis ; drupa oblonga vel fusiformi saspius acuminata. — Adelia acu- 

 minata, Michx., Fl. 2, p. 225, t. 48. Forestiera ligustrina, Gray, 

 Man. Bot., ed. 2, p. 358, non Poir. — Wet, shady grounds along 

 streams, Georgia to Illinois, Missouri, and Texas. 



Var. /3. PARViFOLiA : foliis subpollicaribus, primordialibus sub- 

 spathulatis obtusis, sequentibus pi. m. acumiuatis ; drupa breviter 

 oblonga plerumque obtusa. — New Mexico ; near Santa Fe, Fendler, 

 no. 547. Below El Paso, Wright, no. 1699. Semeleuque Springs, 

 Dr. Bigelow, in Mex. Bound. Coll. 



Dr. Torrey, in the Botany of the Mexican Boundary Survey, has 

 passed over specimens of this variety as belonging to F. ligustrina. 

 Fendler's specimens clearly show it to be a form of F. acuminata, the 

 fruit of which varies exceedingly in shape. 



2. F. LiGUSTPtiNA (Poir.) : molliter pi. m. pubescens ; foliis obovatis 

 ovalibus seu obovato-oblongis obtusis serrulatis (pollicaribus et ultra) 

 basi in petiolum brevem angustatis ; drupa ovoidea. 



Var. a. fohis adultis glabratis vel glabellis ; drupis subsessilibus. — 

 Rocky banks, Florida to Georgia and Tennessee. 



Var. /3. PUBESCENS : foliis etiam adultis molliter pubescentibus ; 

 drupis pedicellatis. — F. pubescens, Nutt. in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 

 n. ser. 5, p. 177. Florida, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Chihuahua. 

 (Coll. Lindheimer, no. 700, &c.) 



In the Botany of the Mexican Boundary Survey, Dr. Torrey has 

 doubtless correctly reduced Nuttall's F. pubescens to F. ligustrina ; 

 but the difference in the length of the fruiting pedicels, unnoticed by 

 him, is worthy of remark. 



One or two mistakes of Richard, in Michaux's Flora, have led to 

 confusion in respect to F. ligustrina and F. acuminata, and to a mis- 

 take in my Manual of Botany, which it is one object of this notice 

 to correct. Richard characterizes Adelia ligustrina as with " foliis 

 integerrimis," A. acuminata with " foliis levissime serratis " ; whereas 

 in fact the leaves of the former are always serrulate ; but those of 

 the latter are sometimes entire, as indeed they are repi'esented in the 

 figure, which figure, with the character, identifies the species com- 

 pletely. Moreover, A. acuminata is said to inliabit Carolina and 

 Georgia, which is true, as to the latter State ; A. ligustrina, Illinois 

 and Tennessee, which is not the case, at least as to Illinois. In the 

 Manual, following the indication of this habitat, I called our only 



