"lis OK." is 
Gaedawakka tor Chaetocarpus. 
Kaluhaburunghos for Cleistanthus. 
Santalodes for Bowrea. 
Stoechadomentha tor Adenosma. 
Genera, which have been set aside because 
of their obseurity, cannot be revivified by any 
- later study; were it otherwise ; no sensible 
person would wantonly iüfliet a wrong on the 
botanieal commonwealth by ascertaining the 
genera of old authors; as it is it can only be 
of antiquarian interest. Still, even Dr. Kuntze 
sets some limit, and does not sanction the use 
of generic names of more than six syllables. 
Here are a few more names from this 
- Store-house of topsy-turveydom :— 
-Alga for Posidonia. 
Erica for Calluna. 
Obolaría for Linnaea. 
-Acetosella for Oxalis. 
KEricodes for Erica. 
icinocarpus for .Acalypha. 
Oxydectes for Croton., 
Trophaeum for Tropaelowm. 
It should be noted that "*Obolaria borea- 
to supersede the Lnnaea bo- 
realis of the Master: it seems hardly decent 
to bring forward Siegesbeck's apparently con- 
j| temptuous name?5 b) in place of that which 
- was expressly desired by Linnaeus himself, 
- as emblematic of his own fate, a northern 
- plant, lowly, flowering early, and long nezlec- 
"ted, which became his erest when he was 
-ennobled, and is now the badge of the Lin- 
^ mean Society of London. 
Reference has been made to the licence 
whieh Dr. Kuntze allows himself in amending 
. names; this euts two ways, for he conccives 
himself also bound to abolish all names wich 
come within a certain degree of resemblance. 
One instance is that. of Gray's Tetraclea, which 
- ds made use of to oust Teíraclis Hiern in 
- favour of Bisaschersonia Kuntze ; but the most 
»Striking example is the following: CAlora Adans. 
-of Seguiera Manetti (1751) non Seguieria Loefl. (1758): then Chloris Sw. is allowed to 
' Stand, but dispossesses Chloraea Lindl. for -sarea, enlarged, and Corea Nyl. becomes 
of place is sometimes allowed, as in the case of Aruba 
position in the same volume, which was issued com- 
Buda, because of specific names having been applied 
There is sound sense in this, which, had it prevailed throughout the rest 
JNylanderaria  Kuntze. Priority 
for Simaba, on account of its earlier 
plete; but not allowed in the case of 
to Buda fist. 
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deprived, at first, by the envy, the hatred or 
the malice of his contemporaries. But since 
at Kew they now and then perform the same 
kindly office, restoring the "forgotten or con- 
demned genera" of Salisbury or of S. F. Gray, 
to the displacement of substitutes offered by 
Smith or Goodenough or Bentham, I claim 
immunity from their censure, at least in this. 
But when Mr. Jaekson observes that ,JacL- 
sonia to supersede Polanisia does not greatly 
matter, for Polanisia is now sunk in Cleome,? 
he is assuming the prerogatives of either an 
individual or insular absolutism. He seems 
to be saying that what they do in Kew is 
done: and that all else that happens in the 
small world botanieal beyond shall count for 
nothing. ''Polanisia"' is well known by many 
botanists to be as good a genus as can be 
found in the family of plants to which it 
belongs*). I think no American botanist of 
any note, since Rafinesque proposed the genus, 
has questioned its validity, or been able to 
admit that Mr. Bentham did well in reman- 
ding the species to Cleome. So while Mr. 
Jackson. with such complacency pronounces 
the earliest of all Jaeksonias a figment, we 
with a degree of equanimity express our own 
and some other people's opinion by writing it 
as an excellent genus. 
") I do not find that the best character 
for Jacksonia as contrasted with Cleome has 
ever been indicated. In the former the valves 
of the capsule are persistent and remain uni- 
ted to near the summit, their tips then sepa- 
rating and becoming reeurved! In Cleome the 
valves are not only deciduous, but separate 
from their axis from below, the tip being the 
last part to become detached. 
is hustled out of existence in favour 
of the work, would have enormously diminished the number of .novelties. 
No one need be surprised to find the well-known names of Caleeolaria, 
ria, and .Límoniwm applied in unfamiliar Ways. 
whieh have been made before, 
?5^) Why shall be Oboloria Sie 
against Linnaea? Mr. D. Jackson had 
Obolaria was published in 1736 befor 
was established. On the contrary Linnaeus 
Lobelia, Allia- 
There are, of course, some alterations 
such as .Hookera for Brodíaea, and T'ichosporum | tor 
£. an apparently contemptuous name 
apparently forgotten that Siegesbeck's 
e the Linnaea of Linnaeus in 1787 
was ,contemptuous* by changing 
Siegesbeck's Obolaria into Linnaea and naming another genus Obolaria. In 
1736 Siegesbeck was not yet an opponent to Linnaeus, 
wrote wrongly on the other page. 
Kuntze, Rev. gen, 
as Mr. Jackson 
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