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and grandiflorum. The name applies to the 

 sulcate seed. 



576. Spermaijlaxen diciioi omus Raf. stem 

 shrubby dichotome sulcate, leaves petiolate 

 oblong lanceol. acute smooth, margins rough, 

 sheaths obsolete, spikes filiform, flowers remote 

 some a,re peduncled — Florida, found without 

 name in Col. herb, flowers small purplish male 

 and female on same spike, no tubular sheaths 

 but instead a small subulate deciduous stipule 

 in some leaves and flowers. 



577. TOXYLON Raf. 1817 in Mus. Nat. 

 Sc. misprinted loxylon (an I for a T) correct- 

 ed in Med. flora Vol. 2 page 268. Maclura of 

 Nnttal 1818 posterior name, and a Genus of 

 shells was since called after Maclure who was 

 no botanist ! Morus or Brussonetia tincto- 

 RiA ! of Sprengel Kunth and Torrey ! not of 

 Linnens, quite a different tree ... I was the 

 FIRST to describe this Genus of trees and give 

 it a better name than Nuttal. His name how- 

 ever was adopted by some botanists, while 

 others blundered so far as to blend it with the 

 tropical RIorus tinctor'ia of Linneus, I cor- 

 rected this mistake in 1830 in my m.edical flora, 

 Nuttal has also corrected it in 1834 in his plants 

 of Wyeth ; but v/ithout mentioning my previous 

 name ! — I gave a long account and history of 

 it in 1817 to which I refer Amer. Monthly 

 Mag. Vol. 2 p. 118, and will only recapitulate 

 the main characters here : adding the real M, 

 tlnctoria (to evince the difference) which forms 

 the Genus Fusticiis. 



Characters of ToxYi.us Raf. flowers dioical 

 in catkins, male fl. calix 5parted, 5 stamens, 

 female fl. in globular fleshy catkins, calix im- 

 mersed pentagonal concrete, Ovary oboval 



