122 PITTONIA. 



year, he reclaimed it iu words which I may thus translate : 



'' Shepherdia, Nutt., had been named by Eafinesque in the 

 Monthly Magazine, 1817, Lcpargjjrcva, a better, earlier and 

 h distinctiye name.'' 



I do not discover that the founder of the genns assigned 

 any specific names- These should be : 



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1. L. Canadensis. Hipjwphac Canadensis, Linn., Sp. PI. 



1024 (1753). Shephm-dln Canadensis, Nutt. Gen. ii. 240 

 (1818). 



2. L. AEGENTEA. Eleagnvs argcniea, Nutt. Fras. Cat. 

 (1813). Hippophae argentea, Pursli, Tl. i. 113 (1814). 

 Shcpherdia argerdea, Nutt. 1. c. (1818). 



3. L. EOTUNDiFOLiA. Slicphevdia vol tmdi folia, Parry, Am. 

 Naturalist, ix. 350 (1875). 



lOXTLON. 



Rafinesque, Am. Monthly Mag. ii. 118 (Dec. 1817) ; Fl- 

 Ludov. 170 (1817). 31aclura, Nutt. Gen. ii. 233 (Dec? 1818). 

 Toxylon, Raf. Journ. de Phys. 260 (1819), and "New Flora, 



No. 578" (1836). 



Apparently tlie earliest mention madfe of the Osage Orange 

 ill any work of botany is that in the Preface to Fursh's 

 Flora. The fruit was unknown to that author. He was con- 

 sequently unable to indicate with certainty its affinities ; so, 

 while describing it as well as he could, and suggesting that 

 It was perhaps related to the genus Morinda, he left it with- 

 out any other name than those assigned it by the explorer 

 Lewis, who had called it ''Osage Apple," and "Arrowwood 

 of the Missouris." 



Within three years from the time of the completion of 

 Pursh's Flora, Rafinesque gave, in the American Monthly 

 Magazine, as interesting and about as perfect an account of 

 this tree as has ever been published. The paper is headed 



