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vertible that it must now go back, at least as far as to tlie 

 labiate genus, to the displacement of the name Synandnu 

 It is also somewhat unfortunate that Dr. Gray, in the place to 

 which I refer, should have given so very incomplete a history 

 of the employment of this desirable name, and that he should 

 have been wrong in every point which he essayed to ninke 

 concerning such history. He mentions only three out of 

 the five attempted uses of the name, states Sprengel's to have 

 been the first, whereas it was tlie third ; and places only a 

 "second" to the credit — or discredit — of Eafinesque, while 

 Rafinesque proposed both the first and second of the various 

 Torreyas which are on published record. Half a century has 

 now elapsed since this author published his full, accurate 

 and plain account of the " Five Genera Toereya/" and there 

 IS now no evfidiug his conclusions. Meanwhile liis Timion, 

 which must needs be taken up as earliest., has been furnished 

 with two synonyms ; Caryofaxiis, so admirable as to be 

 almost longed for in its retirement, and Foefataxus, so bar- 

 barous an appellation that priority, if it had possessed that 

 claim, could scarcely have saved it. We are told that TuMioN 

 is " a Grecian name of Dioscorides for the Taxits:' 



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1. T. NuciFEEUM. Taxus micifera, Ktempf. Amoin. Ex( 

 811 (1712) ; Thunb. Fl. Jap. 275 (1784). Fodocarints 

 hncifer, Pers. Syn. ii. 633 (1807). Torreya nncifeva, Sieb. 

 & Zucc. FI. Jap. ii. 64. t. 129 (1842). Caryotaxas niicifera, 

 Sieb.; Endl. Syn. Conif. 241 (1847). Native of the moun- 

 tains of Japan. 



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2. T. GRANDE. Torreya grandis, Fortune ; Gord. Pi"et. 

 -^■26 (1858). Caryotaxus grcivdis, Henk. & Hochst. Nadelh. 

 367 (1865). Inhabits the mountains of Northern China. 



3. T. TAxrroLiUM. Torreya kixifoUa, Arn.; Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. 1. 130 (1838). Caryotaxus faxifolia, Henk. & Hochst. 

 1. c. Native of Florida. 



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Amenities of Nature, 63. 



