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the genera as proposed by Tournefort, as he had in the non-binomial 

 Gardn. Diet. Abr. ed. 4 (1754), and as the non-binomialists Hill (Brit. 

 Herb. 343, 345 (1756)) and Adanson (Fam. ii. 283 (1763)) did also. 

 Miller reckons twelve species of Limonium and only three of Statice, 

 and the proportion was nearly the same in the case of Hill and Adan- 

 son, so that if the provision of Art. 45 relating to the numerical com- 

 position of the segregates of a genus were strictly followed the name 

 Statice would have to be used for the Sea Lavenders. It is a satis- 

 faction to find a loophole of escape from this course, so repugnant alike 

 to justice and to common sense in that the act of Miller (or Adanson) 

 is taken as determining the application of the name (Statice) while 

 his own use of it is absolutely reversed, in Linnaeus' notes on his 

 combined genus quoted above. His " Statice authorum " and "Limo- 

 nium authorum" even if not given definite rank can certainly, as 

 Druce l has recently argued, be considered as subdivisions which 

 came within the meaning of Art. 45 and fix the typical group of the 

 genus, and the names Limonium and Statice be retained in their 

 modern, which is also their original sense, in place of Statice and 

 Armaria of Willdenow. 2 It should be noted that Willdenow's names 

 are in point of priority in conflict with Taxanthcma Neck. 3 (1790) for 

 Statice Willd., 4 and Polyanthemum Medic. 5 (1791) for Armeria, and 

 that the case will probably have to come before the next International 

 Botanical Congress for settlement. 



In the preparation of the present revision the material in the 

 British Museum, the Kew Herbarium, and the Gray Herbarium, 



i Druce, Journ. Hot. liii. 357 (1915). 



i Willd. Knum. Hort. Berol. i. 333, 335 (1800). 



» Neck. Klem. i. 115 (1790). 



•The dubious genus Plegorhiza Mol. (Sag. (JUL "ed. 1. 104, 351 (1782)"; ed. 2. 140, 287 

 (1810)) was mentioned by Philippi many years ago ("Anal. Univ. Chil. 1861, 58"; Linnaea 

 xxxiii. 220 (1804-05)) as a probable synonym of his Statute chilensis, and later compilers (Ind. 

 Kew., Dalla Torre & Harms, Post & Kuntze) have followed him in referring the name to the 

 synonymy of Slalice Willd. {Limonium). Aside from the essential identity of Molina's ver- 

 nacular name for his genus, "Guaycuru" — which, however, as Molina remarks, " proviene 

 dalla lingua del Paraguay" and is evidently taken from Pernetty's account (Journ. Voy. 

 Malouiiii's i. 300 (1709), under date 4 Jan. 1704), cited by Molina, of a Paraguay Limonium 

 considered by Molina identical with his Plegorhiza — with the name "Guaicuru" by which, 

 according to Schm'itlheiiner (Phil. 1. c ), Statice chilensis is popularly known, there seem to 

 be few points of likeness in the two plants. Molina's description of the flowers of his plant as 

 "senza calice; corolla monoi>etala campaniforme intiera; stami nove brevissimi; . . . .stilo 

 cortissimo" and his reference of it to the Knneandria Monogynia absolutely preclude the 

 possibility of its identity with Limonium. It would seem thai Plegorhiza should again lake 

 the place among the (ienera Incertae Sedis which it held for a century after its publication. 



1 Medic. "Staatsw. Vorles. churpf. phys. iikon. Ges. i. 228 (1791)." 



