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BRIEFER ARTICLES 



NAMES OF NORTH AMERICAN TREES 



The following changes in the names of North American trees as pub- 

 led in the Silva oj North America and in the Manual of the trees of 



North 



nomenclature adopted by the Vienna Congress of 1905. 

 Magnolia foetida Sarg. =M, grandiflora L. 



Fremontodendron Calif orniacm Cov,=Fremontia californica Torr. 

 (Silva 14:97)- 



Aesculiis glabra vslt. Buckleyi Sarg.—As. glabra var. arguta Robs. 

 (Silva 14:97), 



Rhus hirta Sud\v.=R. typhina L. (Silva 14:99), 



Ichthyomethia P. Br. being one of the genera excluded by the Congress 

 without regard to its priority, 7, pisifera A. S. Hitch. ==Piscidia Piscipula 

 Sarg. (Garden and Forest 4:436), 



Pruniis integrifolia Sarg. (Man. 531) must be retained if this tree is 

 considered specifically distinct from P. ilicifolia Walp.; but if it is con- 

 sidered a variety of that species it becomes var. occidentalis Brandegee, 

 and the variety integrifolia Sudw. disappears except as a synonym. 



Pyrus rivtilaris Doug, ex Hook. = Mali] 



Amelanchier Canadensis var. spicata Sarg. =A. canadensis var. rotun- 



difolia Torr. and Gray. A, ohovata Ashe (Man. 61) = A, intermedia 

 Spach. 



Chytractilia P. Br. being one of the excluded genera, C Chytrandia 

 Sarg. (Man. 629)=Calyptranthes Chytraculia Sw., as published in 

 the Silva (5:36). 



Icacorea Aubl. being one of the excluded genera, /. panicidata Sudw, 

 Ardisia Pickeringia Nutt. 



Morodendron Britt.=HALESiA L.; M, Caroliniim Britt,=^ H. Caro- 

 lina L,; and J/, dipterum Britt.=H. diptera Ell. 



Catalpa Catalpa Karst. = C. bignonioides Walt.; C. speciosa Engelm. 

 must be written C. speciosa Warder ex Engelm. 



Sassafras Sassafras Karst.=S. variifolium (Salisb.) Otto Kuntze. 



Uhniis Thomasi Sarg. (Silva 14:102) =U. racemosa 



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