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but Mez has found an earlier specific name in L. coriacea, Sw., 

 the tree becoming N. coriacea (Sw.), Griseb. SebastiaJia Incida, 

 Muel]., becomes Gyimianthes hicida, Sw., as it was first described. 

 Ficiis brevifolia, Nutt. and F. pcduncidaris, Nutt., are referred 

 to F. populnca, Willd. Moms microphylla, Buckley, becomes M, 

 celtidifolia, H.B.K. Gary a, Nutt., is referred back to Hicorius, 

 Raf , and specific names taken up as indicated in the BULLETIN, 

 XV. 275 et seq., except H, microcarpa, which Prof. Sargent 

 agrees with me in considering a doubtful species. I have else- 

 where shown that the older spelling was Hicoria. The post oak 

 becomes Quercus //z/wr (Marsh.), Sargent (O. alba minor, Marsh.), 

 and Q. parviflora, Chapm. is referred to it as a variety. Q. 

 Gambellii^ Nutt., is restored to specific rank. Q. virens. Ait. 

 (1789) is superseded by Q. Virginiana, Mill. (1768), and Q. fal- 

 cata, Michx. (1803) by Q. cttneata, Wang. (1789)- The chestnut 

 becomes Gasianea sativa var. Americana. Betiila popidifolia is 

 held up as a species. Gupressus thyoides becomes Ghanicecypans 

 thyoides, as already printed in the New York Catalogue, a fact 

 which Prof. Sargent fails to note. Jnnipenis flaccida, Schlecht., 

 found by Dr. Havard in Western Texas, is added to the hst of 

 trees. Pinus i nop s, A\t. (1789,) is antedated by P. Virginiana, 

 Mill. (1768); Finns latifolia, Sargent, is a new species from the 

 Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona, Ficea nigra becomes P. 

 Mariana, and P. alba ought to become P. Ganadensis as pointed 

 out in the New York Catalogue. P. Breweriana, Wats., is an 

 addition to former lists. Abies bracteata is replaced by^. venns- 

 ta, and Larix laricina is the name adopted for the Tamarack. 



Thirteen species which were given in the Census Report are 

 dropped from the present list. Six others are reduced to varie- 

 ties, and two to synonomy, making a reduction in the number of 

 twenty-one, as against an increase of thirty, a gain of seven, the 

 total number of arboreus N. A. species now recognized by Prof. 

 Sargent being 419. N. L. B. 



Paragtiay and its Flora. I. Thos. Morong. (Hot. Gaz. xiv. 



22-227). 

 Fhoradendron flavescens. H. H. Rusby. (Drug. Bull., Aug. 



1889, illustrated ; reprinted). 

 Picca alba. (Forest Leaves, ii.; illustration). 



