NOTES ON OUR LOCAL PLANTS 277 
ADENORACHIS (DC) Nwd., Am. Mid. Nat. IV., 93 (1915).? 
Aronia Medicus, Phil. Bot., 140 (1789) also Persoon, II., 
39 (1807), not Aronia Mitchell, Diss. App. 1, (1769) =Orontium 
Linn. nor Aronia Athenaeus=Arisarum or some Arum: nor 
Aronia Dodonaeus and of the older writers (possibly Crataegus 
Azarolus Linn. or C. Oxyacantha Linn.) Dod., Cruydtboeck, 522, 
e270, 1255 (1618). 
Adenorachis atropurpurea (Britton) Nwd. l. c. 
Aronia atropurpurea Britton, Man. 517 (1go0r). 
St. Joseph Co., Ind. 
Adenorachis nigra (Medic.) Nwd. 
Adenorachis melanocarpa (Michx.) Nwd. 1. c. 94. Aronia 
melanocarpa (Michx.) Britton Ill. Fl. II, 291 (1913). Mespilus 
 arbutifolia var. melanocarpa Michx., Fl. Bor. Am. I. 292 (1803). 
Hahnia arbutifolia var. 2. nigra Medic. 1. c. p. 82. (1793). 
Marshall Co., Porter Co., Lake Co., (Deam). 
OXYACANTHA Dioscorides, 1:105. 
Crataegus Linn., Syst. (1735), Gen. 143 (1737), 213 (1754), 
Mespilus Tour., Elem. 502 (1694), Mespilus or Crataegus Tour., 
I. R. H. 632 or 642 (1700), Oxyacantha Lobelius, Caesalpinus, 
Ruppius, Dodonaeus, Dalechamps, J. Bauhin, Anguillara, -Cra- 
taegus Theophrastus=Pyrus torminalis. According to some 
Oxyacanthus is Berberis vulgaris Linn. See Hermolaeus Barbarus, 
Cordus, Tabernaemontanus, Fraas, Bubani, etc. 
Oxyacantha Crus galli (Linn.) 
Crataegus Crus galli Linn. Sp. Pl., 476 (1753). 
10523, 10400 Notre Dame, 520, 7573, Studebaker’s Woods, 
South Bend. 
* Medicus refers Mespilus arbutifolia Linn. (Aronia arbutifolia (Linn). 
All. to his genus Hahnia. (Geschichte der Bot. 82 (1793). Medicus’ genus 
is, however, an impossible aggregate of types containing beside the above, 
which is mentioned last, such widely different plants as Pyrus torminalis 
Pyrus Aria, Mespilus Chamae-mespilus, and Sorbus fennica! Moreover, 
the genus is described by him as having, ‘‘ Ein, zwei bis drei griffel. Die 
Frucht is ein zwei oder dreifacherichte oben geschlossene fleischhohle etc. 
Under the caption Hahnia arbutifolia he seems to apologize for including 
this plant in Hahnia ‘‘Hat gewohnlich fiinf, griffel und fiinf lederartige 
Gefache, in jeden einen bis zwei Saamen.”’ Aronia arbutifolia (Linn.) Ell. 
can in no way be considered as even properly belonging in Hahnia, to say 
nothing of being regarded as its type. Any one then who would so far 
abuse the application of the theory of residues as to use this name too 
replace Aronia were foolhardy indeed. 
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