202 ON THE SYNONYMY OF VARIOUS CONIFERS. 
analyses wherever procurable, have been preserved of them, but these 
are by far too voluminous for a paper of this description. I merely 
allude to the fact in order to show that the groups here brought 
together for the information of the Royal Horticultural Society are 
made upon grounds that can be justified by evidence, and that the 
validity of the species and their location, in most cases, may be 
depended on. 
XXXIX.—-ON THE SYNONYMY OF VARIOUS 
CONIFERS. 
By AnpRew Murray, Assistant Secretary. 
(Continued from page 150). 
ПТ. What is Apres WILLIAMSONII *—Newberry. 
In 1853, the Congress of the United States took up the question of 
constructing a railroad aeross the American Continent from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific, and sent out a number of expeditions, under the 
command of various officers of the United States Topographical Corps 
of Engineers, to explore the country by the routes and between the 
different parallels indicated to them. Scientific men were attached 
nation and Report upon the fauna and flora, geology, and other 
matters of scientific interest observed in the countries through which 
they passed. 
Their results were afterwards published in the shape of Reports 
oceupying ten large thick quarto volumes, liberaly illustrated with 
plates and woodcuts, the last of which appeared in 1859, 
The exploration of the route through California and Oregon was 
entrusted in 1855 to Lieut. R. S, Williamson, Dr. Newberry accom- 
panying the party as Botanist, and their Reports were published in 
857. In the Botanical Report (Vol. IV. р. 58), Dr. Newberry 
r of the party, which they had met 
With the descrip- 
gave a portrait of the tree, and a figure of, the cones 
and leaves, 
While Dr. Newberry was engaged on this expedition, however, and 
two years previous to his publication, the same tree had been described 
by ourselves in the Edinb. New Phil. Journal (April, 1855) under 
the name of Abies Hookeriana (after Sir W. H оокег). We had received 
Mr. William Murray, who found 
е Californian range. Dr. New- 
: А k rely ds with ours—as do his figures, 
with this exception, that the drawing of the cone, which we made, was 
form, while Dr. Newberry’s figures are obviously taken from the half 
or fally-opened cone; It may have been from this cause that Dr. 
