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NEW SYLVA 
and grandiflorum. The name applies to the 
sulcate seed. 
576. Sperm aulaxen dxchot omits Raf. stem 
shrubby dichotome sulcate, leaves petiolate 
oblong lanceol. acute smooth, margins rough, 
sheaths obsolete, spikes filiform, flowers remote 
some are peduncled — Florida, found without 
name in Col. herb, flowers small purplish male 
and female on same spike, no tubular sheaths 
but instead a small subulate deciduous stipule 
in some leaves and flowers. 
577. TOXYLON Raf. 1817 in Mus. Nat. 
Sc. misprinted loxylon (an I for a T) correct- 
ed in Med. flora Vol. 2 page 268. Maclura of 
Nuttal 1818 posterior name, and a Genus of 
shells was since called after Maclure who was 
no botanist! Morus or Rrussonetia tincto- 
ria ! of Sprengel Kunth and Torrey ! not of 
Linneus, quite a different tree ... I was the 
first to describe this Genus of trees and give 
it a better name than Nuttal. His name how- 
ever was adopted by some botanists, while 
others blundered so far as to blend it with the 
tropical Morus tinctoria of Linneus, I cor- 
rected this mistake in 1830 in my medical flora, 
Nuttal has alsocorrected it in 1834 in his plants 
of Wyeth ; but without mentioning my previous 
name ! — I gave a long account and history of 
it in 1817 to which I refer Amer. Monthly 
Mag. Yol. 2 p. 118, and will only recapitulate 
the main characters here : adding the real M, 
tinctoria (to evince the difference) which forms 
the Genus Fusticus. 
Characters of Toxylus Raf. flowers dioical 
in catkins, male fl. calix 5parted, 5 stamens, 
female fl. in globular fleshy catkins, calix im- 
mersed pentagonal concrete, Ovary oboval 
