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In that genus, the name Prunus communis was no longer available because in 1778 William Hudson had already assigned it to a taxon in which he included the plum (Prunus domestica). Batsch thereupon named the species Prunus amygdalus, where 'amygdalus' is the old generic name and should therefore be treated as a noun in apposition. Meanwhile, in 1768, Philip Miller had published the name of what he believed to be a second

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