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■ LiNDLEYELLA 



This genus has been known as Lindleya H.B.K. (1823). But 

 the name Lindleya had been used twice before, viz., in 182 1-2 by 

 Kunth* and by Nees.f The former is supposed to be a synonym 



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the same year. Which of the two was first pubh'shed can scarcely 

 be decided, and Lindleya Nees may replace Laplacea H.B.K.. 

 Following the rule, *^Once a synonym, always a synonym/' the- 

 writer was forced to propose a new name. 



That the genus contains more than one species is evident. If 

 anyone compares the illustrations cited in the North American 

 Flora under L, mespiloides with those in the Botanical Register 

 and the Fleurs des Serres, cited under L. Schiedeana^ he will see 

 that they can scarcely represent the same plant. Z. mespiloides 

 has been described as a very variable plant, perhaps partly on 

 account of these very unlike illustrations. There are perhaps 

 more than two species included, but the author has no evidence- 

 that proves the existence of more than two. All the specimens 

 found in the herbaria of the New York Botanical Garden, Harvard* 

 University, and the United States National Museum, except one,, 

 agree fairly well with the original illustration in Humboldt, Bon- 

 pland & Kunth's Nova Genera et Species. The only exception 

 is Schiede's plant and this agrees fairly well wath the illustrations 

 in the Botanical Register and in the Fleurs des Serres. 



Vauquelinia 



When the author began the revision of this genus, he had two 

 species at hand, which had been named V, corymhosa, but the 

 first glance at the original illustration of the latter showed him 

 that neither of the two could belong to it. One of these was 



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Boundary Survey. This error was corrected by Watson, who 

 renamed the plant V. Toi^reyi. The plant had been collected 

 earlier, however, during Emory's Reconnoissance and had beep 

 described by Torrey as Spiraea californica. For this reason the 



*MaIv. 10. 1822. 



f Flora 4: 299. 182 1. 



J H.B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 5: 207. 1821 



