156 Harper: Explorations in Georgia 1903 



CJlaccida Salisb.; Andre, Rev. Hort. 1861 : 316-320. / 79, 80. 1861. 

 Euryslyhisjlaccidus 'Qoxxch^'y Horan. Prodr. Monog. Scit. 18. 1862. Locality: 



■** In paludosis Carolinae australis." 



Caniia (g Corythiitvt) flaccida Roscoe ; Wood, Class-Eook 692. 1861. ** A fine 

 plant, around ponds, S. Can, Ga. and Fla," 



C.fluccidaY)\\\.\ Kegel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1866: 85. 1867. (Unites C. 

 Reevesii with CJlaccida^ probably for the first time.) 



CJlaccida ; Gray, Field, Forest & Garden Bot. 327. 1869. ** Wild in swamps 



from South Carolina S." 



CJlaccida Dill.; B, & H. Gen. PL 32 : 655. 1883. *' Species boreali 



Americana,*' ' ' . 



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CJlaccida Dill.; Petersen in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2^ : 32. 1889. 



•* Aus dem siidlichen Nordamerika." 



CJlaccida Salisb.; Petersen in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3^: 74.//. 77. / 2. 1890, 

 {Cites a recent Florida specimen, and follows Roscoe in crediting the species to the 



tanks of the Mississippi.) 



C. flaccida Salisb.; Baker, Gard. Chron. III. 13: 196. 1893. (*^ Southern 



United States; Carolina to Florida, in swamps." Also explains the origin of C 



Reevesii. ) 



CJlaccida Salisb.; Bailey, Field, Forest & Garden Bot. 413. 1895 ; Cycl. Am. 

 Hort. 240. 1900, '* Swamps, S. Car. to Fla., near the coast." 



C Jlaccida Roscoe ; Small, Fl. S. E. States 307. 1903. '* In swamps near the 

 coast, South Carolina to Florida." 



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Pursh, Elliott, Chapman, Wood, Small and the Kevv Index 

 credit the authorship of the specific wdiVa^ flaccida to Roscoe, while 

 Roscoe, Regel, Petersen and Bentham & Hooker credit it to Dil- 

 lenius, about seven authors credit it to Salisbury, and the remain- 

 der do not say where the name originated. 



The facts in the case seem to be as follows : Our plant was 

 figured and described in 1732 by Dillenius (but the v^ox^ flaccida 

 does not appear in his polynomial designation), who says the seeds 

 came from Carolina, to the best of his recollection. By Linnaeus 

 it was confounded with C. glauca^ a very distinct species (if the 

 published figures of it are accurate) of unknown origin. In 1788 

 Walter reported three species of Carina (the same three as in Lin- 

 naeus' Species Plantariwi) from South Carolina, but it is not cer- 

 tain which of his descriptions (if any) applies to the plant in ques- 

 tion. In 1 79 1 our plant received its first tenable name from 

 Salisbury, who gave an excellent hand-made colored plate and 

 over a page (a foho page at that) of description. The n^va^ flac- 

 cida was used by at least four other authors before Roscoe, so 

 there is no sufficient reason why it should have ever been credited 

 to him, I have not been able to verify the citation of C. flava 



