106 Rhodora [October 



glomerules lateral on the main filaments, spermatangia on special 

 ramuli in the vicinity. On Mi/riocladia, Guadeloupe. 



C. EFFLORESCENS var. Thuretii Bornet, 1. c, p. XVI. C. corymhi- 

 fera P. B.-A., No. 192. Frond arising from a basal disk, filaments 

 9-10 /! diam. below, slightly less above, branching from the base, 

 branches alternate or secund, often ending in a hair; fertile branches 

 one or more at the axil of a branch, simple or forked, bearing one or 

 two spermatangia at the end; the trichogyne developed on a lower 

 cell, succeeded by a dense glomerule of carpospores. On Ceramium 

 rubrum and Cystoclonmm purpurascens, Marblehead to Gay Head, 

 Massachusetts. 



Malden, Massachusetts. 



THE NOMENCLATURE OF THE NEW ENGLAND 

 LAURACEAE. 



B. L. Robinson. 



The application of the rules of nomenclature, which were care- 

 fully framed by the International Botanical Congress at Vienna, 

 necessitates many minor changes in current usage. The general 

 tendency of the rules, however, is decidedly conservative and it is 

 believed that all botanists Avho are seriously anxious for a unified 

 nomenclature will endeavor to apply these rules with care and accept 

 with patience any changes which they impose. It is also to be hoped 

 that such alterations may be made in a manner to be as clear and 

 convincing as possitfle. For this reason individual cases, involving 

 complicated synonymy, may be appropriately discussed in some detail. 



The attractive early-flowering Spice Bush or Benjamin Bush, 

 common from New England southward and westward, has of late 

 been passing in America imder two scientific names, viz., Lindera 

 Benzoin, the designation adopted in the later editions of Gray's 

 Manual, and Benzoin Benzoin (L.) Coulter, the name employed in 

 some more recent works. Neither of these binomials can be main- 

 tained under the Vienna rules, and it is therefore worth while to 



