1(8 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



S. BiCOLOR. This species, published in the Mantissa, is iu the 

 herbarium under the name of S. discolor. Two other sheets are 

 fastened together, both of specimens from Kahn. One of them, 

 ticketed " K. 77, radio albo," and '•^bicolor" in the hand of Linnasus, 

 is not of that species, but seems to be a form of S. rugosa. The 

 other, marked only " K.," judging from the character and other indi- 

 cations, must be the original of 



S. LATERIFLORA ; Otherwise that is not in the herbarium. It is a 

 familiar form of the Aster miser, var. diffusus, Torr. and Gray, Fl., 

 that is, of A. diffusus, Ait. 



S. LANCEOLATA, also of the Mantissa, is in the herbarium from 

 Kalm, " 30," with another specimen, doubtless the original from 

 Royen. 



S. Mexicana. The " Virga aurea limonii folio," &c., of Tourne- 

 fort, an obtuse-leaved form of S. sempervirens, L., which is the name 

 to be adopted. Came in all probability from the temperate North 

 American coast, not from Mexico. 



S. CiESiA. Not in the herbarium under this name. The species 

 was founded on the " Virga aurea Marilandica cassia glabra " of Dill. 

 Elth. 414, t. 307, f. 395, which, as the plate shows and the original at 

 Oxford proves, is the well-known *S'. ccBsia. 



S. FLEXiCAULis. The specimen is S. ccesia, with which, however, 

 the character " foliis ovatis " and the figures cited from Plukenet and 

 from Hermann do not accord. The syn. " Virga aurea Canadensis, 

 asterisci folio," Herm. Parad. t. 244, apparently from the figure and 

 certainly from the " Canadensis" is the broad-leaved relative of S. ccesia, 

 for which I have always kept the name of S. latifolia, L. Hermann 

 indicates that it is V. Canadensis Scrophularia; folio, of the Paris 

 Garden in his time. Plukenet's figure and specimen, t. 235, f. 3, 

 are pretty clearly the same. 



S. LATiFOLiA. The specimen which appears to be the original of 

 the species is our latifolia, and the habitat is a confirmation. The 

 name written by Linnajus on the sheet is " lateriflora," which Smith 

 has corrected to "■latifolia, vide Sp. PI." But it is not the ordinary 

 thin-leaved and flexuous-stemmed form of our shady woods and dells ; 

 it is rather a state which this species takes on when cultivated in open 

 ground. The syn. of Plukenet, t. 235, f. 4, should be this, by the 

 phrase " latissimo folio, Canadensis glabra ; " but the preserved speci- 

 mens, which quite accord with the figure, must belong to the S. latissi- 

 mifolia of Miller, a broad-leaved a-xillary-flowered state of S. elliptica, 



