Reprinted by permission of the Editor and of the Publishers, from Vol. VI of Bailey's Standard Cyclopedia of 

 Horticulture, published March, 1917. These pages (3575 to 3610) are covered by the copyright in the name of 

 The MacmiUan Company. 



FINDING -LIST 



Of Latin or Latinized binomials commonly used in North American literature and commerce, with their 

 equivalents in the Cyclopedia, together with usages that the cataloguer may desire to follow 



(Including a few changes and corrections) 



This List is compiled primarily for the aid of Cyclopedia 

 users, particularly the nurseryman, seedsman, propagator, 

 planter, landscape architect, gardener, labeller, cataloguer, 

 to place before him the commonest names in the catalogues 

 and periodicals of North America and to give him the 

 equivalents of these names. The information given in 

 this List is all contained in the Cyclopedia; but it is more 

 accessible when separated, being placed together in con- 

 venient form disconnected from keys and description and 

 from names of plants known as yet only to collectors, 

 students, and specialists. The attention of the consultant 

 is called to the list of additional species beginning on page 

 3565, in the supplement to Vol. VI, representing trade 

 names not in the body of the Cyclopedia. 



The List represents practically the species now in the 

 trade in North America in the usual temperate parts, 

 although it does not pretend to be complete. It does not 

 contain the many Latin names of horticultural forms that 

 may appear in catalogues as species-names (the real 

 species-name being omitted in parts of many trade-lists). 

 Neither does it contain vernacular names: these will be 

 found in alphabetic order in the Index to the Cyclopedia, 

 beginning page 3611. 



All generic entries are introduced by BLACK-FACE 

 CAPITAL TYPE (name of the genus). 



The species-names in black-face type are in all cases 

 those used in the Cyclopedia. 



The primary or first-given entries under the genus in 

 every case are the trade names or those used commonly 

 in journals and elsewhere; when these names differ from 

 the Cyclopedia name they are in Italic type; when the 

 same as the Cyclopedia name, they are in black-face type. 



A name in parenthesis is one that is used in the trade or 

 in periodicals: thus, "Acanthophoenbc rubra (Areca)" 

 means that the plant may appear in catalogues under the 

 name Areca, Such entries are cross-references. 



The stars (*) denote the names recommended by the 

 American Joint Committee on Horticultural Nomenclature 

 for the use of nurserymen. These markings are made 

 wholly on the responsibility of the Committee, the List 

 being lent for this purpose, and they are not supervised or 

 recommended by the Editor. 



While it is desirable that the names used by botanists 

 and horticulturists shall be the same, yet the dealer is 

 confronted with trade conditions which may modify his 

 practice in some cases. The Editor naturally prefers to 

 stand for the accepted botanical names. 



To save space, the abbreviation var. (variety) is 

 omitted; but the Editor does not thereby commit himself 

 to the use of trinomials. 



STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN JOINT COMMITTEE ON HORTICULTURAL NOMENCLATURE 



The American Joint Committee on Horticultural 

 Nomenclature was established by the national organiza- 

 tions named below for the purpose of lessening the con- 

 fusion, inconvenience, and losses which result to buyers 

 and sellers of plants from the widespread use of different 

 names for the same plant and of the same name for dif- 

 ferent plants, 



The organizations participating, with list of committees, 

 are as follows: 



American Association of Nurserymen. J. Horace 

 McFarland, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Harlan P. Kelsey, 

 Salem,- Massachusetts; Henry Hicks, West bury, New 

 York: L. A. Berckmans, Augusta, Georgia; C. J. Maloy, 

 Rochester, New York: Frederick V. Coville (Advisory), 

 United States Botanist, Washington, District of Columbia, 



American Association of Park Superintendents. 

 Herman W. Merkel, Forester Zoological Park, New York 

 City: John Dunbar, Assistant Superintendent of Parks, 

 Rochester, New York; Theodore Wirth, Superintendent 

 of Parks, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 



American Society of Landscape Architects. Frederick 

 Law Olmsted, Brookline, Massachusetts; Sid. J. Hare, 

 Kansas City. Missouri; William Pitkin, Jr., Rochester, 

 New York; Warren H. Manning, Boston, Massachusetts. 



American Pharmaceutical Association. Dr. H. H. 

 Rusby, Columbia University, New York City; Oliver A. 

 Farwell, Detroit, Michigan; Dr. Lyman F. Kebler, Wash- 

 ington, District of Columbia. 



Ornamental Growers Association. Harlan P. Kelsey, 

 Salem, Massachusetts; C. J. Maloy, Rochester, New 

 York; Thomas B. Meehan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 

 F. L. Atkins, Rutherford, New Jersey. 



The representatives of the American Association of 

 Nurserymen and of the Ornamental Growers Association 

 organized as a Joint Committee in 1915, with J. Horace 

 McFarland as Chairman and Harlan P. Kelsey as Secretary. 



At a meeting August 1, 1916, in which the representa- 

 tives of the American Association of Park Superintendents 

 and of the American Society of Landscape Architects also 

 participated, the same officers were continued and the 

 name American Joint Committee on Horticultural Nomen- 

 clature was adopted. The representatives of the Ameri- 

 can Pharmaceutical Association were added to the com- 

 mittee a few weeks later. 



Scope of work. 



So far as practicable, it is proposed to secure the 

 standardizing of a single botanical name, together with 

 a single vernacular or "common" name for every tree, 

 shrub, and herbaceous plant in the American horticultural 

 trade. 



It is probable also that the Joint Committee will under- 

 take later to recommend a list of plant-name abbreviations, 

 as an aid to those who use plant names daily and con- 

 tinually, such as nurserymen, seedsmen, florists, landscape 

 architects, pharmacists, park officials, and others. 



The subjoined starred list of Latin binomials should be 

 considered only as a preliminary report. The magnitude 

 and manifest difficulties of the problem, and lack of time 

 occasioned by the early publication of the last volume of 

 this Cyclopedia, have made it necessary for the Joint Com- 

 mittee to confine its recommendations almost wholly to 

 the "botanical" names of woody plants as given in this 

 "Finding-List." The even more important work of 

 endeavoring to standardize popular or "common" names 

 must follow later. 



Practical importance of stability in nomenclature. 



The confusion of names in the horticultural plant world 

 is at present so great as to clog popular plant knowledge 

 and actually to limit to no small degree the use of certain 

 trees, shrubs and flowers in our American plantings. The 



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