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A. FOLIOLOSUS. Fol. 4 is A. vimiveus, Lam., therefore Alton's 

 plant or near it; fol. 1 is A. salidfolius, Ait., "A. obliquus, Nees;" 

 fol. 2, 3, A. ericoides, L. and Ait. 



A. TENUiFOLius. Of course not the Linnaean plant ; but at least 

 four of the eight sheets belong to A. ericoides; the others are of 

 various species. 



A. SALiciFOLius. Apparently A. cestivus, Ait., which is repre- 

 sented by cultivated specimens resembling the original in the Banksian 

 herbarium. 



A. PANICULATUS is A. cordifoHus, L. Intended, of course, for 

 the Ait. Hort. Kew. species. 



A. cORDiFOLius. The specimen from Muhlenberg is of A. sagitti- 

 folius. 



A. SALiGNus, the name changed from A. salidfolius^ Scholler ; the 

 species referred to Europe (Germany and Hungary), where it prob- 

 ably is indigenous, or at least has long been domiciled. 



A. MUTABiLis. Fol. 1, 2 are apparently the same as A. versicolor ; 

 fol. 3 is nearer A. Icevigatus, Lam. 



A. vmiNEUS. Not of Lam., but the A. miser, Lam., that is, 

 A. purpuratus, Nees, and A. virgatiis, Ell. 



A. Tradescanti. Fol. 1 is of the Morisonian plant ; while fol. 5 

 is A. pahdus, Lara. 



A. SPECTABiLis. Not the Aitonian species, but some long-culti- 

 vated one, of the Novi-Belgii sort. 



A. TARDIFLORCS. Same as the A. adulter inus,'V^\\\^. Enum., and 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg., the A. Novi-Belgii of Hort. Cliff., &c. 



A. JUNCEUS. Apparently same as A. cestivus, Ait. 



A. MISER. 1 . „ , , , , , • J- , • 1 



All belong to the polymorphous species for which 



> the name of A. dijfusus is preferred, with some 



mixture of -4» dumosus L. 



A. DIVERGENS. 

 A. DIFFUSUS. 

 A. PENDULUS. 



Vni. Spedes originating in Wilhlenow, Enumeratio Plantarum Hort. Reg. 

 Bot. BcroUnensis, 1809. 



A. SPARSiFLORUS. Micliaux's species taken up and described ; is 

 A. dumosus., a large-leaved form. 



A. ADULTERiNDS. A. Novi-Belgii, answering to the specimens of 

 the plant cultivated in early times, as preserved in herb. Morison and 

 herb. Cliffort. 



