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Can., I, 71 (1836) Sophia Trew, Herb. Blackw., t. 440 (1755) 
also Adanson, Fam. des Pl., II, 417 (1763) Sisymbrium ‘Tour. 
I. R. H., 226 (1700), 192 (1694), Linn. Syst., (3735) Gen. 199 
(1737) 296 (1754). 
Sophia pinnata (Walt.) Howell, Fl. N. W. Am., I, 56 (1897). 
Erysiumm pinnatum Walter, Fl. Car., 174 (1788), Sisymbrium 
canescens Nutt., Gen., II, 68 (1818), Descurainia pinnata Britton, 
Mem. Jorr. Bot. Cl., V, 173 (1894. 
Millers (Higdon and Raddin), Hegewisch, Ind. (Hill), 3525 
Notre Dame (Powers) 2068, 2069 St. Mary’s, Notre Dame. Found 
also in a number of other places in this country. 
NORTA Adanson, Fam. des Pl., II, 417 (1763). 
Norta altissima (Linn.) Britton, Ill. Fl., 2 ed., II, (1913). 
Sisymbrium altissimum Linn., Sp. Pl., 659 (1753). 
11094, 11248 Notre Dame, Ind., 2680a, 2680b Galien, Mich., 
Berrien Co., Millers (Umbach). 
CHEIRINIA Vink, Enum. Hort. Berol., II, 170 (1820). 
Cheirinia cheiranthoides (Linn.) Link, 1. c. 
' Erysimum cheiranthoides Linn., Sp. Pl, 661 (1763). 
11311, Grand Trunk w. w. west of South Bend, Ind. 
ERYSIMUM Dioscorides, II :187, also Pliny, Hist. Nat. 
Not Erysimum* Theophrastus = Polygonum Fagopyrum Linn. 
Sisymbrium of modern works, not Sisymbrium of the ancients, 
and Dioscorides which is a mint, probably Mentha arvensis Linn. 
Chamaeplium Spach, ex Wallr., Sched. Crit. I, 176 (1827), 
Phrye Bubani, F1. Pyr., III. 171 (1901). Erysimum Vinn., Syst. 
(1735), Gen. 198 (1737), 296 (1754) Tour. Els. 194 (1694), I. R. H. 
228 (1700). also Gesner, Dodonaeus, Gerard, Thalius. Tragus, 
Morison, Boerhaave, etc. /rio Dodonaeus, Hist. ed. Gall. 438 
(1557). 
*Bubani does not think that the Erysimum of Dioscorides is indubitably 
the Erysimum officinale of Linnaeus (FL Pyr. III, 179). Fraas in his Flora 
Classica to another species of the genus refers the Dioscorean name. Sibthorp 
(Fl. Graec) refers the Erysimum in question to Sisymbrium polycerahum 
Linn. The consensus of the older pre-Linnaean is so general that even 
Bubani admits that the plant of Dioscorides is probably E. officinale Linn. 
though he himself changed the name to Phryne not wishing to 
accept only probable ancient names. We do not see sufficient reason for 
any other view and have retained Erysimum though there was another 
Theophrastan one. Our reasons for this were explained in the introduction 
to these notes. 
