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In trying to verify some of the citations for it I found to my sur- 

 prise that it had been described at least thirty times, and figured 

 eight or ten times. Its bibh'ographic history is somewhat involved. 

 The principal descriptions, in chronological order, are as follows : 



Camiacorus glaucophyllos (etc.), Dill. Hort. Elth. 6^. pi. jg, 1732. Type 

 locality: *' si bene memini, . . . e Carolina, ubi sponte nascitur." 



Cannaglauca L. Sp. PL I. 1753 (in part). Type locality : '^n Carolina? '' 



? C. ghuca L. ; Lam, Encyc. i : 357. 1783. Locality : '' dans les lieux hu- 

 mides de la Carolina: on la cultive au Jardin du Roi." 



C. faccida Salisb. ' Ic. vStirp. Ran 3. //. 2. 1791. Type locality: ** Sponte 

 nascentem in South Carolina \tg\i Joha7ines Bartramy 



? C. fava Michx. ; Lam. Jour. Hist. Nat. Par. i : 416. 1792. {Fide Ind 

 Kew. ) 



C.Jlaccida Salisb. ; Mill. Card. Diet. (ed. Martyn). 1797. The editor says 

 among other things ** It is often confounded with Can7ia glauca^ 



C. glauca ^ Jlaccida Willd. Sp. PI. i: 4. 1798. Locality: "in Carolinae 



aquosis." 



C Jiaccida Salisb. ; Redoute, Les Liliac^es 2 : //. /o/. 1805. (Specimen 



figured was cultivated at Malmaison. The author remarks that Fraser and Michaux 



mention no indigenous Canna from Carolina, and as this species is more sensitive to 



cold than other plants from Carolina, perhaps it came originally from some warmer 



country. But this is probably explained by the fact that it grows in the extreme 



southern part of South Carolina, while the other Carolinian plants known to Redoute 



may have come from the mountains of North Carolina.) 



C, Jiaccida Salisb. ; J. E. Smith in Rees Cycl. vol. 6. 1806. ** A native of South 

 Carolina, where it was found by Bartrara." 



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C. Jiaccida Roscoe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 8 : 339. 1807. (This is the citation given 

 in the Kew Index.) Type-locality: ** Bot. Gard. Liverpool.'^ 



C, Jiaccida Roscoe; Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 585. 1814. Locality: *'In swamps 

 of South Carolina'* (with reference to six earlier descriptions or figures, including 

 Salisbury's and one which I have not seen). 



C. Jiaccida Roscoe; Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. i : I, 1816. " Grows in wet soils, 

 around ponds; Paris Island, near Beaufort; C[h]atham Co., Georgia." 



C. Jiaccida ; Nutt. Gen. i : I. 1818. *'In Carolina and Georgia." 



C flaccida ; Lodd, Bot. Cab. 6 : pL ^62. 1821. ** A native of Carolina and 

 Georgia ; we received it about two years since from our valued friend, Dr. Wray of 

 Augusta." 



C, Jiaccida Dill.; Roscoe, Scitamineae (no. 6). 1828. "A native of America, 

 where, Mr. Nuttall informs me, he saw it growing in great quantities on the banks of 

 the Mississippi. Has been cultivated in our gardens many years." (Refers to Dil- 

 lenius's and Redoute's figures, but not Salisbury's.) 



C. Reevesii\Ax\dX. Bot. Reg. z^z pL 2004. 1837. Type-locality: "China." 



C. _/?^(fr?V/^ ; Darby, Man. Bot, S. States 247. 1841. '* Yellow. May-July. 

 Wet soils. Low country of Car. & Ga. 2-3 feet." (Describes the flowers as red in 



subsequent editions. ) 



Eurystylus Jlaccidus Bouchd, Linnaea 18 : 485. 1844. (Refers to Salisbury and 

 Willdenow, but mentions no locality.) 



Canna Jiaccida Roscoe; Chapm. FI. S. States, 466. i860. (With the longest 

 description in this book and in the "three subsequent editions.) Locality: "Miry 

 swamps, Florida and South Carolina, near the coast. 



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