By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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barren, rejected the shape of the leaves altogether, and on 

 this, and the absence or presence of the glaucous covering 

 of the stem, made up his specific characters, which have been 

 adopted in the new edition of the Hortus Kewensis. 



These various changes, together with some alteration of 

 names, have caused an intricacy and confusion in the syno- 

 nyms of the Dahlias, which I have attempted to elucidate in 

 the following table, wherein all the names given by the dif- 

 ferent authors, whose works I have noted, are regularly ar- 

 ranged, under the two now established species. 

 1. Dahlia superflua caule non pruinoso, flosculis radii fcemi- 

 neis. Hortus Kewensis. Edit. 2. vol. 5. 87. 

 Georgina superflua. De Candolle, Ann. du 

 Mus. vol. 15. 310. 

 Synonyms of Cavanilles' first Species. 

 D. pinnata. Cavanilles, Icon. vol. 1. 57. 

 D. pourpre. Thouin, Ann. du Mus. vol. 3. 

 423. 



Georgina purpurea. Willdenow, Spec. PI. 



vol. 3. 2124. 

 D. pinnata. Buonaiuti in Macd. Gard. Diet. 



vol. 2. pag. penult. 

 D. sambucifolia. Salisbuby in Hort Trans. 



vol. 1. 90. 



Georgina variabilis a (purpurea). Willdenow, 

 Hort. Berol vol. 2. 93. 



P _____ Enum. 



Hort Bot. Berol 899. 

 Synonyms of Cavanilles' second Species. 

 D. rosea. Cavanilles, Icon. vol. 3. 33. 



