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ADDENDUM 1-2. The identification of obsolete or erroneous Latin names used for broad-Ieaved species in the records for Prince Edward Island, and comments on them based on the taxonomic listings in Elwes & Henry (1910).
LATIN NAME —I RECORDER & ENGLISH NAME GIVEN CURRENT LATIN NAME COMMENTS ON THE OBSOLETE NAME
Fagus sy/vatica
Fagus ferruginea
Acer saccharinum
Betula nigra
Betula lenta Betula excelsa Betula lutea Betula alba
Betula papyracea
Betula alba var. populifolia
Stewart 1806: Be'.ech Fagus grandifo/Ia( (American beech) Fagus sy/vatica is the European species. The name was applied Bagster 1861: White beech. to the American beech by Marsh (1785).
Perley 1847: Red beech’. Fagus grandifolia( (American beech) Fagus ferruginea was applied to the American beech by Dryander McSwain & Bain 1891: [no name given] (1789).
[Bain] 1882: ‘Beech’.
Macoun 1894: ‘Beech’.
Johnson 1895: ‘Beech’.
Stewart 1806: ‘Rock or curled maple’. Acer saccharum (sugar maple). Acer saccharinum was applied to the sugar maple by Wagenheim
Bagster 1861: ‘Sugar or rock maple’. (1789). [Bain] 1882 and Bain 1890: ‘Sugar maple’.
McSwain & Bain 1891: [no name given]
Macoun 1894: ‘Sugar maple’.
Johnson 1895: ‘Sugar maple’.
Stewart 1806: ‘White maple'. Acer rubrum (red maple). A. negundo is the name of the Manitoba maple. It seemingly has never been applied to the red maple.
Stewart 1806: ‘Black birch’. Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch) Betula nigra was applied to the cherry or black birch (now 8. Ienta)
Bagster 1861: ‘Black birch’. by Du Roi (1771).
Stewart 1806: ‘Yellow birch’. Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch) Betula lenta is the name still applied to the cherry or black birch. Bain 1868-1884 (1873): [no common name] Betula lenta var. Iutea was applied to the yellow birch by Regel
Johnson 1895: ‘Black birch’. (1868).
Bain 1868-1884 (in 1868): [no name given] Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch) Betula exce/sa was applied to the yellow birch by Pursh (1814). [Bain] 1882 and Bain 1890: ‘Yellow birch’. McSwain & Bain 1891: [no name given]
Macoun 1894: ‘Yellow birch’. Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch) Betula lutea was applied to the yellow birch by Michaux (1812).
McSwain & Bain 1891: [no name given] Johnson 1895: ‘Yellow birch’.
Stewart 1806: ‘White and grey birch‘. Betula papyrifera (white birch). The name Betula alba was applied by Linnaeus to a European Bagster 1861: ‘White birch’. birch. The North American white birch was named Betula alba var. papyrifera by Spach in 1841.
Bain 1868-1884 (1873): [no name given] Betula papyrifera (wnite birch). Betula papyracea was applied to the white birch by Aiton (1789). [Bain] 1882: ‘White birch‘. Betula papyrifera (white birch).
Bain 1890. ‘White birch’. Betula popu/ifolia (grey birch)
McSwain & Bain 1891. [no name given] Betula papyrifera (white birch).
McSwain & Bain 1891: [no name given] Betula popu/ifo/ia (grey birch). Betula alba L. var. popu/ifolia was applied to the grey birch by Macoun 18941W‘hite birch'. Spach( (1841