236 Rhodora [DECEMBER 
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SOME POINTS OF NOMENCLATURE IN "TRIENTALIS 
AND RUBUS. 
W. Н. BLANCHARD. 
Boranists seem to have overlooked the name Trientalis borealis 
given to the star-flower by Rafinesque in 1808 (Medical Repository 
of New York, р. 354). They still use the varietal name of Persoon 
made specific by Pursh in 1814, and the recent edition of Gray's 
manual designates it Trientalis americana (Pers.) Pursh so as to do 
justice to Persoon as well as to Pursh. Rafinesque did not describe 
it but referred as did Persoon and Pursh to Michaux’s description. 
Michaux called it T. ewropaea L. and decided that it did not differ 
from the European plant sufficiently to be separated. He briefly 
gave the variation of the American plant from the European and this 
constituted his description.  Persoon's description of his var. ameri- 
cana "fol. angusto-lanceolatis" is verbatim Michaux's, and Pursh 
simply added to Persoon's description “acuminatis obliquis. " 
In accordance with Article 49 of the Vienna Rules the name Tri- 
entalis borealis Raf. is the one which should be used for our American 
star-flower, since it was the earliest given to the plant in its now gen- 
erally accepted specific rank. 
The American red raspberry was first named as a variety of Rubus 
idaeus L. by Richardson in the Appendix to Franklin's Journey, 1st ed., 
1823, p. 739. He called it var. canadensis and referred to Willdenow 
and Pursh, and in the second edition of Franklin's Journey, p. 747 he 
accepted Michaux's disposition of it as A. strigosus and wrote a full 
description of it making it certain just what plant he meant. ‘This 
second edition was published in the same year as the first and differs 
from it only in the botanical appendix which is slightly changed and 
considerably enlarged, his description of Rubus triflorus and of several 
other new species appearing in it. Var. canadensis Rich. should 
therefore be substituted for the later var. aculeatissimus [C. A. Mey.] 
Regel & Tiling in the New Manual. 
Rafinesque was again first in the field with a specific name for the 
running raspberry, Rubus triflorus Richardson (R. americanus (Pers.) 
Britton). In 1811, in the Medical Repository of New York, p. 333, 
he proposed R. pubescens as a name for the plant described by Michaux 
