The Société impériale d'horticulture de Paris et centrale de France merged at the end of 1854 with the Société d'horticulture de la Seine to form the Société impériale et centrale d'horticulture.
The authors re-establish <i>P. corsica</i> Sieber ex Tausch as a separate species distinct from <i>P. mascula</i>, following research in the Mediterenean Islands, Italy and Greece.