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Hedysarum grandifiorum Walt. Fl. Car. 185. (1788). 

 Hedysarum acuminatum Michx, Fl. Bor. Am. 2:72. (1803). 

 Desmodium acuminatum (Michx.) DC. Prod. 2: 329. (1825). 

 Ransom County: Anselm on Sheyenne River (0. A.Stevens). 

 938. Plantago maior var. luxuriosa. A better name is P. 

 nitrophila var. luxuriosa Lunell. 



Insert next after No. 806, Glaucoidcs mar it i ma: 



1244. Glaucoides maritima Rupp., var. obtusifolia (Fernald) 

 Lunell. 



Glaux maritima var.' obtusifolia Fernald, Gray's Manual ed. 

 VII: 647. (1908). 



The type and the variety seem to grow almost promiscuously 

 without definite geographical limitations. 



Insert next after No. 710, Hippocasianum vulgare: 



1245. Hippocastanum glabrum (Willd.) Lunell, var. Buckleyi 

 (Sarg.) Lunell. 



Aesculus glabra Willd., var. Buckleyi Sargent. 



A single tree, in cultivation. Leeds. 



Insert next before No. 18: Pinus scopuloritm: 



1246. Pinus resinosa Ait. 

 Leeds. 



In conformity with the absolute priority rules applied by Dr. 

 J. A. Nieuwland in his "Notes on our local plants" (Am. Midi. 

 Nat. 191 2 and following years), the existing names have been 

 replaced by older ones wherever he found botanical history uphold- 

 ing such a change. If our oldest ancestor Adam has not been 

 quoted, the reason is either that he was not a botanist, or that 

 records are wanting or not obtainable! This, we are confident, 

 not to say certain, is the nomenclature of the future, to be altered 

 only in such instances when subsequent researches perhaps dis- 

 cover names of higher seniority. So far, the ruling is considered, 

 revolutionary and has not yet been adopted in this or any other 

 country, barring a few. The names are not forced on anyone, 

 as the commonly accepted nomenclature is inserted additionally 

 throughout the list. 



Since, Nuttall and Geyer visited the Dakota Territory in the 

 first half of the last century, a new plant has barely been discovered 

 in this state for the subsequent fifty years or more. Gray's Manual 

 ed. VI was considered "final," and to suggest a new plant name was 



