1919] Fernald,— Nymphozanthus 185 
It is interesting, however, that this fact was recognized by Desvaux 
in 1818, when, by clerical error apparently, he called the genus Nym- 
phanthus! and called Nymphaea lutea Nymphanthus europaeus, with the 
comment: “Ces deux genres sont parfaitement distincts," etc., and 
again in 1827 when he corrected the name to Nymphosanthus with the 
note: “nous croyons que le nom de Nymphosanthus proposé by C. L. 
Richard est antérieur à celui de Nuphar."? 
The status of the generic names of the cow lilies seems to be as 
follows. 
Nympuozantuus L. C. Richard, Anal. du Fruit, 63, 68 (as Nym- 
phosanthus), 103 (May, 1808); Ann. Mus. Par. xvii. 230 — reprint 8 
(1811); Desv. Fl. de l'Anjou, 80 (1827). 
Nymphaea L. Sp. Pl. i. 510 (1753), in part; Greene, Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Cl. xiv. 177-179, 257—258 (1887) and most subsequent authors; not 
L. Gen. Pl. ed. 6, 264 (1764), nor Juss. Gen. Pl. 68 (1789). 
Nuphar Sm. in Sibth. & Sm. Fl. Graec. Prodr. i. 361 (late 1808 or 
early 1809). 
Nenuphar Hayne, Getreue Darstel. und Beschreib. Arzneik. iv. t. 36 
(1816). 
Nymphanthus Desv. Obs. Pl. Angers, 83 (1818). 
Clairvillea Hegetschweil. in Labram & Hegetschweil. Samml. 
Schweiz. Pflanz. t. 21 (1826-1834). 
Blepharia Sm. Mem. & Corr. i. 576 (1832). 
Rophalon Raf. New Fl. N. Am. ii. 17 (1836). 
Nenufar Peterm. Fl. Lips. 396 (1838). 
Nufar Wallr. Erst. Beitr. Fl. Hercyn. 212 (1840) and in Linnaea, xiv. 
582 (1840). 
Nyphar Walp. Rep. i. 108 (1842). 
Nymphona Bubani, Fl. Pyr. iii. 260 (1901). 
The principal species * of Nymphozanthus, chronologically arranged, 
are the following: ‘ 
NMPHOZANTHUS luteus (L.), n. comb. Nymphaea lutea L. Sp. Pl. 
i. 510 (1753)— misprinted N. “lusea.” Nymphaea umbilicalis Salisb. 
in Kön. & Sims, Ann. of Bot. ii. 71 (1805). Nuphar lutea (L.) Sm. in 
Sibth. & Sm. Fl. Graec. Prodr. i. 361 (late 1808 or early 1809). Nym- 
phozanthus vulgaris L. C. Richard, Ann. Mus. Par. xvii. 230 — repr. 
1 Desv. Obs. Pl. Angers, 83 (1818). 
? Desv. Fl. de l'Anjou, 80 (1827). 
3 The writer has seen no material of several recently proposed species which he consequently 
omits from the present enumeration. 
