66 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
In 1806 Salisbury,’ the first reviser of the genus Nymphaea restricted 
the name to a group containing lutea only of the original Linnean 
species, thus fixing the type, according to the practice of zoologists, 
Two years laterJ. E.Smith,? deliberately setting aside Salisbury’s per- 
fectly valid action, and overlooking the Nymphozanthus of Richard, 
May, 1808, re-restricted Nymphaea to the group represented by alba 
and dotos, and applied a new name, Nuphar, to lutea and its allies. 
Although not justified by any rules of nomenclature, Smith’s treat- 
ment of the subject received the general sanction of botanists for 
nearly eighty years. In 1887 and 1888, however, Greene * and Brit- 
ten * called attention to the errors and restored the correct names. 
Nymphona Bubani, Flora Pyrenaea 3: 259. 1901. 
A substitute for Nuphar proposed on account. of philological 
prejudices, the ancients having applied the wor¢ “nuphar” to the 
plant’s root. It is a synonym of Nymphaea. 
Nymphozanthus?® LL. ©. Richard, Démonstr. Bot. 68. 1808. 
A name based on the yellow-flowered species of the Linnean genus 
Nymphaea. As it was published in May, 1808, it antedates the 
Nuphar of Smith by at least seven months (see Britten, Journ. Bot, 
26; 7. January, 1888). 
Ropalon Raf. New FI. N. Amer. 2: 17. 1836. 
A synonym of Nymphaea based on Nymphaea sagittata Pers. 
NAMES APPLIED TO SPECIES. 
In addition to the names lutea and pumila originally applied to 
European members of the genus and erroneously used for American 
species, thirty names, including the ten published here for the first 
time, have been based on American plants. They are as follows: 
Advena. Nymphaea advena Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 226. 1789. 
This is the first name based on an American member of the genus. 
It was applied to a plant brought to the Kew Gardens in 1772 by 
William Young. As Young collected in South Carolina and in the 
neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,* there can be no ques- 
tion as to the applicability of the name to the common erect species 
characteristic of the Upper Austral zone. It has been more com- 
monly misapplied, however, to the floating-leaved Boreal plant. 
' Ann. Bot, 2:71. 
? See Memoir and Correspondence of Sir J. E. Smith. 1:575, 577-581. 1832. 
® Bull. Torrey Club 14: 177-179. September, 1887; 257-258, December, 1887; ibid., 
15: 84-85. March, 1888. 
* Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 26: 6-11. January, 1888. 
* Spelled Nymphozanthus on p. 63 and in the index, Nymphosanthus on p. 68 where 
the genus is defined. The second form may be regarded as an obvious misprint. 
6 See Britten, Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 32: 332. N ovember, 1894, 
