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Acad. Sci. v. 346 (1889), excl. synon. Cassine Peragua L. — 7. Caroliniana 

 Loesener in Bot. Centralbl. xlvii. 163 (1891); in Nov. Act. Leop. -Carol. 

 Akad. lxxviii. 341 (Monog. Aquifol.) (1908), excl. synon. Cassine caro- 

 liniana Lam. not Miller, nor Trelease 2 ). 



Though a large number of names have been bestowed on the plant 

 best known as Ilex vomitoria Aiton, the oldest specific name given to it 

 seems to have escaped notice and is not enumerated in Index Kewensis. 

 This is Miller's Cassine Paragua of 1768; Miller cites in his short descrip- 

 tion the figure published in his Figures of the most beautiful . . . plants (i. 

 55, t. 83, fig. 2 [1760] ), where he also quotes Catesby 's plate (Nat. Hist. 

 Car. ii. 51 [1743] ). and the "Cassine vera Floridanorum arbuscula bacci- 

 fera, Alaterni (not "alterni" as printed in Linnaeus' Spec.) ferme facie" of 

 Plukenet (Mant. 40 [1700] ). All these quotations belong to /. vomitoria 

 Aiton without any extraneous element being involved. There could be, 

 therefore, no doubt of the validity of Miller's name if it were not for the 

 name Cassine Peragua Linnaeus (Spec. I. 268 [1753] ) 3 , which should be 

 considered a homonym, as the difference in the spelling is too slight to 

 make them different names. If we reject the name C. Paragua Miller as 

 being a homonym of C. Peragua Linnaeus the question arises if Cassine 

 caroliniana Lamarck should be taken up as the next oldest name, as was 

 done by Loesener who made in 1891 the combination Ilex caroliniana. 



2 The following names referred by some authors as synonyms to /. vomitoria should be 

 excluded : 



/. ligustrina Jacquin, Icon. PI. Rar. u. 9, t. 310 (1789?); Collect, iv. 105 (1790).— This is 

 a distinct species and is treated as such by Loesener; the native country is given by Jacquin 

 as "Carolina," but that is probably an error (see Loesener in Nov. Act. Leop. -Carol. Akad. 

 lxxviii. 319, obs. 2 [Monog. Aquifol.] [1901]). 



Wintcrlia trijlora Moench, Meth. 74 (1794). K. Koch (Hurt. Dendr. 211 [1853] and Dendr. 



ii. pt. 1, 225 [1875] where he cites the name by mistake as Wintcrlia glabra) and Trelease 



(in Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. pt. 1, 390 [1897] ) are apparently right in referring this name to Ilex 



glabra as a synonym. Moench 's specific description agrees well with /. glabra Cray but in 



his generic description he characterizes the flowers as 4-merous, and this probably induced 



Loesener to cite the name as a synonym with a query under his /. caroliniana= I. vomitoria 



Ait., though "petalis linearibus . . . sepala . . . petalis breviora" hardly fits that 

 species. 



Cassine ramidosa Rafinesque Fl. Ludov. 110 (1817). — This plant can hardly belong to 

 Ilex vomitoria, as it is described as having 5-merous flowers and a 3-celled ovary with 3 

 reflexed stigmas. 



Ilex (Emetila) ramulosa Rafinesque, Sylv. Tellur. 45 (1838). This is the same as the pre- 

 ceding plant. 



Ageria geminala Rafinesque Sylv. Tellur. 48 (1838). As the leaves are described as acute, 

 thin and deciduous, the peduncles as "unifloris geminatis sparsis" and the habitat given as 

 "Apalachian Mts.", it can hardly represent Ilex vomitoria. 



3 Cassine -peragua Linnaeus, Spec. I. 2G8 (1753) a citation not given in Index Kewensis 

 is to be considered a valid name and antedates C. capensis Linnaeus, Mant. 220 (1771) 

 with which it agrees in its principal elements, that is in the figures cited (see also Loesener 

 in Bot. Jahrb. xxviii. 155 [1891] ). The plant, however, called C. peragua by Linnaeus in 

 1771 (Mant. 220) represents Viburnum obovatum Walter (Fl. Carol. 116 [I7:ss] ) for which 

 the oldest name is Cassine corymbosa Miller of 1708, see foot-note 5. 



