168 LEAFLETS. 
Madronella. 
During two years past the above name, now for the first 
printed, has existed in my herbarium on genus cover and species 
sheets that were formerly labelled Monarde//a, This last name 
has something of a history. Though in form it is generic, the 
author of Michaux’s Flora who constructed it and first caused 
it to be printed, used it as specific under the genus Pycnanthe- 
mum to designate a dubious member of the genus; one which he 
seems to have thought of as perhaps meriting the rank of a 
genus. This is the natural and reasonable explanation of his 
having given the species a name that is as to form, generic. Only 
about thirty years later Mr. Bentham in monographing the 
whole family of the Labiates carried into effect what one must 
believe to have been purposely at least hinted at by Michaux, 
for he published, as a genus, the suggested Monarde//a, making 
‘Michaux’s P. Monardella the type, renaming it Monardella Caro- 
liniana, while the greater part of the species making up the 
genus as Bentham had it, were from Pacific North America, 
and not truly congeneric with the Carolinian type. And while 
later authors have remanded the type of Monardella to an 
older genus, and an older species even, the name has been retained 
for what is now a large genus of western plants. 
The viciousness of this method in nomenclature I long ago 
endeavored to point out; and I here, after long delay, propose 
anew name for the western genus; a name made out of the 
old Monardella, that is MADRONELLA. I shall not attempt to 
transfer more than a portion of the species; but here is a con- 
siderable number of them, placing first in order what should be 
the type of the genus. 
M. oporaTistmA. Benth. Lab. under Monardella. 
M. UNDULATA. Benth. Le S e 
M. Doors. Benth. Le e id 
M. CANDICANS. Benth. Pl. Hartw. < a 
M. vitLosA. Benth. Bot. Sulph. 7 = 
M. BREWERI. Gray, Am. Acad. vii eg SS 
