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S. VIMINEA. Hort. Kew. 1778, a form of the S. sempervirens, L. 

 (the name to be adopted for this maritime sjiecies), with some pubbs- 

 cence on the upper part of the stem. 



S. STRICTA. The cultivated plants, from Miller and from Kew, 

 1778, on which the species was characterized and published, prove to 

 be identical with the well-marked and much later S. virgata, Michx., 

 a pine-barren species of the Atlantic coast. The way in which tie 

 name was appropriated to more northern species is as follows, So- 

 lander first characterized in his manuscript and ticketed in the herba- 

 rium a "*S'. parvijiora,'' on a specimen from Hudson's Bay, collected by 

 Banks (the S. Terrce-Novce, Torr. and Gray), afterwards changed that 

 name for 8. stricta, at the same time erasing his phrase " paniculato- 

 corymbosa racemis recurvis " and adding to the habitat " prope 

 Novum Eboracum," but not erasing "ad Sinum Iludsonis." The 

 early-cultivated specimens in the herbarium are not good ones, the 

 inflorescence becoming compound, as it often does in the indigenous 

 state ; yet the species ought not to have been so mistaken. The name 

 has been used for more than one northern species, but as published 

 in the Hortus Kewensis and cultivated at the time, it belongs alto- 

 gether to the well-known S. virgata of Michaux, which name it 

 supei'sedes. 



There is a specimen from Kew Gardens, 1778, noted by Solander in 

 manuscript as S. stricta^ var., which is a form of S. speciosa, Nutt., 

 and apparently is the original of S. erecta, Pursh : vide infra, p. 187. 



S. LiNOiDES of Solander, in herb. (Hort. Lee, 1779), proves to be 

 identical with the original S. stricta, that is, S. virgata, Michx. ; and 

 with this his unpublished character agrees, especially the " caule stricto 

 simplicissimo," and the " raceraus terminalis spiciformis," as it does 

 not with the species which Dr. Boott thought he had identified with 

 it. 



S. rETiOLAUis. The authentic plant, of Hort. Kew. 1778, was 

 rightly identified by Dr. Boott long ago, and taken up in Torr. and 

 Gray's Flora, and the specimen is not very undeserving of the name. 

 Solander in his manuscript distinguishes two forms, viz., " «, foliis 

 integerrimis, calycibus squarrosis," thus noting a distinctive feature, 

 and " j3, foliis serratis ; " the latter, marked "■ Hort.," is of a very 

 different species, not well made out, but apparently of S. Virgaurea of 

 Europe. 



S. BICOLOR, L. The Linna^an species. 



S. itiGiDA, L. The well-marked Linna^an species. 



