238 AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST. 
long as wide, with densely pubescent and white-ciliolate bracts, 
and H. Maximiliani Schrad, has dull green, pinnately veined 
conduplicate, elongated lanceolate leaves, about 6 cm. long, 16 
mm. wide, or in that proportion, and involucral bracts in four 
series (this last character is hardly noticeable except on the 
living plant). 
The species grows in dry soil on the open prairie in central 
North Dakota. The type was collected by myself at Leeds, on 
September 10, 1900. 
Leeds, North Dakota. 
The Name of Our American Wax Bayberries. 
J. A. NIEUWLAND. 
Quite a number of botanists more or less recent and others 
even generations ago have come to the conclusion that the Lin- 
ficially acquainted with the Species Plantarum of Linnaeus, 
lishmen, which have perhaps been unthinkingly accredited as 
original with the eighteenth century botanist. Though Park- 
* Parkinson, J. Theatrum Botanic 
