While searching for another reference, I noted with surprise the original publication of Hypericum buckleii M. A. Curtis (1843). This is the binomial of a shrubby endemic of the Blue Ridge Mountains of southeastern North Carolina (Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Transylvania Counties) and adjacent South Carolina (Greenville) and Georgia (Rabun, Towns and Union Counties). The original spelling was in sharp contrast to the all but universal appearance of the epithet thereafter: buckleyi as demonstrated by the sampling of authors in the following list: Chapman (1860), Coulter (1886), Small (1903 and 1933), Peattie (1929), Svenson (1940), Rehder (1949), Radford et al. (1968), Wood and Adams (1976), Duncan and Kartesz (1981), Jones and Coile (1988), Wofford (1989) and Kartesz (1994). I have encountered only one author, Coulter (1897), who took up the orthography buckleii as originally published by Curtis. And as noted above Coulter had earlier (1886) adopted H. buckleyi.