and as a result, the Chinese species Halesia macgregorii has been transferred into a new genus Perkinsiodendron, named after American botanist and Styracaceae expert Janet Russell Perkins. The genus was named after Stephen Hales by John Ellis, publishing the name in the tenth edition of Linnaeus's Systema Naturae in 1759. The name is conserved as the same name had been used in an obscure earlier publication in 1756 for a different plant. Fossil record One fossil endocarp of †Halesia crassa has been described from a middle Miocene stratum of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark. Cultivation and uses Silverbells are popular ornamental plants in large gardens, grown for their delicate pendant flowers in late spring. References Ericales genera Trees of the Eastern United States Flora of the Appalachian Mountains Trees of the Southeastern United States