488 SHORT NOTES. 
tically certain that Kibatalia was published in 1887; the preface 
to the volume is dated February, 1838. In any case, however 
Kickxia of Dumortier antedates Kiria of Blume, and those who 
maintain the former as a genus must substitute Kibatalia for the 
latter—James Brirren. : 
Hierocutoz vy. Savasrana.—Mr. Arthur Bennett, in his in- 
teresting account of Hierochloe in Scotland (Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. 
name as a synonym. Mr. Hiern, however, calls my attention tothe 
use of the name by Ludwig (Def. Gen. Pl. ed. Boehm (1760), by 
a note under Holcus, p. 425 ) : é (st - ae 
i. p. 101, hue refert Linn. S tom. ii. p. 1048, differt floribus 
reason for this inconsistency? I note that Dr. Britton says of 
Savastana, “name unexplained.” The explanation Deana Me by 
Schrank when he established the genus; he named it in honour 
of an Italian Jesuit, Francesco Eulalio Savastano (1657-1717), 
who published a botanical work in Latin verse—Botanicorum seu 
Institutionem Rei Herbarig Libri iv—in 1712.—James Britten. 
Pyrus natironia iw N. Somerset (p. 408). — The tree to which 
Mr. Salmon refers is one which was planted, many years ago, In 
what Mr. Salmon says, that my label did not ‘fully explain—as 1b 
should have done—the origin of the tree; hence the mistake into 
which he has been led.—Davin Fry 
ste nt gee 
* I am indebted to Mr. B. D. Jackson for information as to the dates of 
Endlicher’s Genera, which it may be well to place on record. Pp. 160 were issued 
80 ; 
in 1840. 
+ See Loudon’s Gardeners’ Magazine xi. 194 (1835). 
