THE AMERICAN NATURALIST [Vol. XLV 



0. grandiflora Ait. 



In a previous paper ('llr/, p. 110) I reproduced the 

 manuscript of L'Heritier's description of 0. grandi- 

 flora, which was written about 1788 but was never pub- 

 lished. The type specimen of 0. grandiflora in the Brit- 

 ish Museum was grown in the garden of Dr. Fothergill 

 in 1778. It has narrowly lanceolate leaves and slender 

 hypanthia, agreeing exactly with some of the plants in 

 my cultures of 0. grandiflora from Alabama. Solander 

 really did the descriptive work upon this form, and the 

 species should have been given his name instead of that 

 of Aiton. In Vol. IX, p. 387, of the Solander manu- 

 scripts, which are in the British Museum, he gives the 

 following additional notes on this plant of Bartram and 

 Fothergill: "(Enothera grandiflora foliis lanceolatis 

 denticulatis villosiusculis, petalis cuneiformibus, calyci- 

 bus aristatis, pilis caulinis basi tuberculosis. Habitat in 

 America septentrionalis prope Mississippi. Bartram 

 Junr." These characters serve further to identify the 

 plant with the present O. grandiflora, the words "petalis 

 cuneiformibus" and "calycibus aristatis" being partic- 

 ularly distinctive. 



Evidence from Later Herbarium Specimens.— I may 

 now refer to a number of specimens in the British Mu- 



another. The first of °theM ^cimens was** marked 

 "(Enanthera grandiflora Lin: Willd.," the species name 

 being crossed out and "longiflora" written above it. 

 On the back of the page is written "Herb. Demidoff. 

 Pallas." This applies to plants grown bv Demidoff in 



