smith's GEORGIAN PLANTS. 301 



Banks with the same name. Prof. Sargent {Silva N. Amer. viii. 

 p. 147) refers Abbot's figure to Q. cuneata Wang. 



" Mimosa microphylla Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2 ined." 

 " The plant in the plate is a species of Mimosa, which will appear 

 in the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis, and for the following 

 specific character and synonym of which we are obliged to 

 Mr. Dryander. 



" Mimosa microphylla, undiqiie aculeata , foliis hipinnatis octojiigis : 

 sedecimjugis, capitulis axillaribiis pedunculatis solitariis hinisve. 



'* M. Intsia. Walt. Flo. Carolin. 252." (Vol. ii. t. Ixii. p. 128.) 

 This name stands in Index Kewensis: ^'Mimosa microphylla 

 Sm. ex Steud. Nom. ed. i. 5S3 = Schra7iJcia imcinata.'" Steudel's 

 identification was arrived at by Dryander after he had communicated 

 the description to Smith : the plant stands in Hort. Kew. (ed. ii. v. 

 467) as Schrankia uncinata Willd., and that name is substituted for 

 the former by Dryander in the Solander MSS., as well as in Herb. 

 Banks. 



The supposed new Mimosa was originally based on a speci- 

 men in Herb. Banks, endorsed ''America Septentr. J. Bartram. 

 Cree," to which a specimen from "Hort. Kew. 1789" was subse- 

 quently added by Dryander. An examination of these shows that 

 (as already noted by Mr. Carruthers in the herbarium) both should 

 be referred to *S'. angustata — a species distinguished by Torrey and 

 Gray [Fl. Bor. Amer. i. 400) in 1840 ; and to this the figure should 

 also be referred. Mimosa Intsia Walt, non Linn., which Willdenow, 

 Torrey and Gray, Bentham, and indeed all botanists, down to Dr. 

 Britton and the Index Kewensis, have agreed to refer to S. uncinata, 

 should also, as Walter's type specimen shows, be transferred to 

 S. ayigiistata, in common with most of the synonyms. The Index 

 Kewensis does not include the name 8. reticulata, which is published 

 by Torrey and Gray as a synonym of S. uncinata. The synonymy 

 of the two species will run : — 



Schrankia uncinata Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 1043 (1805) excl. 

 synonymy ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. Bor. Amer. i. 400 excl. 

 syn. (1840). 

 S. reticulata Pickering ex Torr. & Gray, 1. c, p. 401. 

 Leptoglottis Nuttalii DO. Mon. Leg. 451 (1825). 

 S. ANGUSTATA Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 400. 



Mimosa Intsia Walt. Fl. Car. 252 (1788) and Herb. ! non 



Linn. 

 M. microphylla Dryand. ex Smith in Georgia Insects, ii. 123, 



t. 62 (1797) and in Herb. Banks ! 

 M, horridula Mich. Fl. Bor. Amer. i. 254 (1803) ; Ventenat, 



(Jhoix des Flantes, t. 28 (1803). 



S. uncinata [Dryand. in] Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. ii. v. 457 



(1813) and in Herb. Banks ! auct. plur. non Willd. 



IplaceMichaux's horridula under this species because, although 



his description applies equally to either, he cites Walter's plant as 



a synonym ; Ventenat, in his very full description, makes no 



reference to the prominent reticulate veins of the leaflets which 



