TRbooora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 25. April, 1923. No. 292. 
NOMENCLATORIAL TRANSFERS IN MARISCUS. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
THE chiefly austral genus which has long passed as Cladium must, 
as pointed out by Schinz & Thellung! in 1908 and, upon different 
grounds, by Otto Kuntze in 1891,? take the generic name Mariscus 
Zinn. Briefly, the case is as follows. 
Mariscus was a pre-Linnean genus of Haller? embracing the char- 
acteristic European plant with serrate leaves, which had been called 
by Scheuchzer Pseudocyperus palustris, foliis & carina serratis.4 
In the Species Plantarum Linnaeus treated it as a species of Schoenus, 
taking up Haller's name and calling the plant Schoenus Mariscus.’ 
In post-Linnean time Mariscus was apparently first taken up by 
Zinn, who in 1757 properly defined the genus which consisted of 
Haller's Mariscus, the Schoenus culmo tereti, foliis margine dorsoque 
aculeatis of Linnaeus and Cyperus longus inodorus Germanicus of 
` Bauhin; in other words Mariscus of Zinn was the same as Schoenus 
Mariscus L., which had been based upon the identical references; 
and Zinn was followed in using Mariscus by Boehmer’ in 1760. 
In 1756 Patrick Browne described under a new generic name, Cladium,® 
the characteristic West Indian plant, but the genus Cladium itself 
was not defined, merely the one species under it; Browne's practice 
being to use a generic name and under it to describe the different 
! Schinz & Thellung, Vierteljahrs. Naturforsch. Gesells. Zurich, liii. 523 (1908). 
? Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. i. 754 (1891). 
3 Haller, Enum. Stirp. Helvet. 251 (1742). 
4 Scheuchzer, Gram. 375 (1719). 
KL. Sp. Pl. i. 42 (1753). 
* Zinn, Cat. Pl. Hort. Gott. 79 (1757). 
7 Boehmer in Ludwig, Defin. Gen. Pl. 423 (1760), 
8 P. Br. Hist. Jam. 114 (1756). 
