SPICILEGIA GORGONEA. 139 
accord either with the character or figure of his genus. One 
of these was unadvisedly considered by Meench to constitute 
the Tournefortian genus, and to it he attaches the name and 
cites the figure of that author. Dr. Schultz adopted our 
views and has shewn besides that the Odontospermum of 
Necker, composed of the two species wrongly appended by 
Tournefort to his genus Asteriscus, is identical with Nauplius, 
and not with Borrichia as De Candolle imagined. 
It might have been preferable to retain the names of 
Cassini for genera he has so well defined; but the question 
having been once mooted and more ancient names erro- 
neously applied, the law of priority must now be fully carried 
out. Pallenis, Cass. must reassume its name of Asteriscus, 
Tourn., and Nauplius that of Odontospermum and the two 
genera will stand thus : 
Asteriscus, Tourn. non Mænch, nec Less., nec DC. Pallenis, 
Cass. 
Odontospermum, Neck. Asteriscus, Mænch, Less. DC., non 
Tourn. Nauplius, Cass. 
We here give three new species of the latter genus. The 
first, O, Smithii, resembles so closely in appearance the 
0, sericeum, C. H. Sch. Bip. as to be easily taken for it; but 
the Pappus and the teeth of the corolla are perfectly distinct. 
e second, O. Daltoni, has very much the aspect of O. inter- 
medium, ejusd. ; the third, O. Vogelii, that of some forms of 
D. stenophyllum, ejusd.; but they are in reality quite different 
plants, i 
120. Odontospermum Smithii, Webb; fruticulus robustus, 
Tamis crassis fuscis, foliorum cicatriculis rugulosis juniori- 
bus sericeo-albidis, foliis latis ad apicem ramorum con- 
gestis spathulato-lanceolatis in petiolum dilatatum — 
nuatis sericeis albis, involucri foliolis spathulatis, interiori- 
bus oblongis basi concretis, capitulis amplis, floribus exte- 
rioribus ligulatis, ligulis elongatis apice 3-dentatis, denti- 
bus ovatis acutis, floribus disci tubo cylindraceo medio 
Constricto basi coriaceo albido laciniis lanceolatis acutius- 
culis subtus papillosis membrana marginali destitutis, 
