120 
leaves still more minute, not lucid 
above, only l-12th of an inch long, 
and 1 -24th wide. Wood white and 
tough. 
5. Abies mncronata R. (Fifth Fir 
L. C.) bark scaly, branches virgate, 
leaves scattered very narrow, rigid, 
and oblique, sulcate above, pale be- 
neath. Cones ovate acute, scales 
rounded nervose mucronate — Rises 
150 feet, leaves sub-balsamic, one 
inch long, l-20th wide, cones very 
large two and a half inches long. 
Yar. palustris. Grows in swamps, 
only 30 feet high and with spreading 
branches. 
6. Abies falcata R. (Seventh Fir 
L. C.) bark scaly, leaves tristichal 
or in 3 rows, in 2 rows upright, in 
lower row declinate falcate, all li- 
near lanceolate, with trigone petiols. 
Cones fusiform obtuse at both ends. 
Only on the sea shore of Oregon, ri- 
sing only 35 feet, leaves 3-4th inch 
long, 1 -5th wide. 
C. S. Rafinesque. 
19. On 3 N. 8p. of Clintonia. 
Of all the New Genera of Plants 
which I claim to have established 
and well named, to few am I more 
partial than to the beautiful G. 
CLINTONIA which I published in 
1817 in America and in 1819 in 
France (50 N. G. Journal phys.) of 
the natural tribe of Asparagides; 
which I dedicated to my worthy 
friend Dewitt Clinton, an eminent 
Philosopher, Naturalist and States- 
man. 1 proved that it differed to- 
tally from Drdcena and Convallaria 
to which 2 Sp. had been united, by a 
bilobed stigma, bilocular berry and 
a striking habit^ I enlarged besides 
the Genus by describing 4 sp. of it 
Cl. nutans , Cl. odor at a CL parvi- 
Jiora , CL Podanisia in Ann. Nat. 
1820, and I am now going to add 3 
more, making a Genus of 7 known 
species. 
It was then with surprise and re- 
gret that I have seen another N. G. 
Clintonia lately proposed by an 
oversight of Lindley, erroneously 
copied by my friend Torrey. Ac- 
cording to the practice of Decandole 
this G. Clintonia of Lindley, must 
be named anew, and mine prevail, 
as anterior by 12 years. I have 
called it protein in my notes Bolelia S. 
an anagram of Lobelia to which it 
is very aldn$ but Lindley may 
frame a better new name for it, if he 
likes, provided he adopts my Clinto- 
nia of 1817. 
G. Clintonia Raf. 1817 non 
Lindley 1830? 
5. CL Becantha Raf. Leaves cili- 
ate, Scape elongate pubescent, om- 
bel 10 flowered, pedicles erect pu- 
bescent, petals lanceolate acute, stig- 
ma bi dentate — In the Alleghany 
mts. of Virginia and Cumberland 
mts. Four leaves oblong acute. 
6. CL Multiflora Raf. Leaves 
ample ciliate, scape smooth, umbel 
multiflore fastigiate, pedicles erect, 
bracts oblong, petals cuneate obovate 
acute undulate whitish — This plant 
I have seen in the herbarium of Dr. 
Torrey, sent him from England as 
the Convallaria umbellulata culti- 
vated there, and native of Canada. 
It is totally different from my Cl. 
odoratcii and CL par f v flora , all mis- 
taken for that plant. The leaves are 
large, elliptical acute, scape one foot 
high, with 12 to 15 flowers, smaller 
than in the other sp, except CL par- 
v flora ; but this has unguiculate pe- 
tals. In fact all the sp. of this pretty 
Genus are much alike in leaves and 
scape but chiefly differ by the flow- 
ers and petals. 
In Andrew’s Repository fig. 206 
the original Dracena borealis of Ai- 
ton and Solander is figured. Which 
almost indicates another sp. of this 
Genus, somewhat different from the 
CL nutans and Cl. podanisia which 
have oblong berries, ciliate leaves, 
&c. I shall notice it protein as fol- 
lows* 
7. CL borealis or Cl. aitoni. R* 
Leaves undulated, not ciliate, scape 
flexuose multiflore biombellate, om- 
beis 3-4 flowered, nodding, petals 
lanceolate obtuse, stigma oblique 
truncate dilatate emarginate, berries 
globular-— In Canada 4 leaves. 
C. S. Rafinesque. 
