Cocculus carolinus (L.) DC.

Cocculus carolinus (L.) DC. View in CoL , Syst. Nat. 1:524. 1817 [1818]; M.J. Young, Familiar Lessons Bot. 151. 1873 (“ Caroliniana ”).

The name “C[occulus] Caroliniana, DC. ” adopted by Young (1873) is an orthographic variant of C. carolinus . The description of this species in her flora clearly is copied from Chapman (1860, as “ C. Carolinus, DC. ”), while the specific epithet probably was taken from Wood (1861, as “ C. Carolinianus DC. ”). Standard indices ( IPNI 2021; Tropicos 2021) suggest that this orthographic variant first appeared in the horticultural literature as “ Cocculus carolinianus auct., Gartenflora 35:404. 1886 ” even though this source itself attributes the name to “Gard.monthly Philad.” where the same orthographic variant was used ( Thomson 1886) earlier. Nonetheless, as evidenced by Wood (1861) the variant spelling was in the floristic literature well before then.