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of authentic specimens, nothing can be done in the way of restor- 

 ation, and I adopt here the earliest name which, as it appears to 

 me, can with certainty be applied to this species. 



Castalia flava. — Nymphao flava, Leitner in Audub. 

 Birds, p. 411 (1838): N. lutea. Treat in Harp. Mag., Iv, p. 365, 

 {^^77), not of Linn. 



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Castalia ELEGANS. — Ny^nplma elegans. Hook. Bot. Mag. 



t, 4604(1851); E. E. Sterns, Bull. ToRR. Bot, Club, xv, p. 

 3 (1888). 



Vv hile It was confessedly Salisbury's privilege, as a post- 

 -Linn^an author, to name the two genera of northern water-lilies 

 whose respective characters it may either be that he discovered 

 independently or that he learned them from the pre-Linnaean, 

 Boerhaave, it is not shown, and I think no one will contend that 

 he had a right to coin new specific names for plants which were 

 neither new nor in want of names as species. Yet, without the 

 least excuse he set aside several which had been in constant use 

 by all Linn^an botanists, and one which had been familiar to, 

 and almost universally employed by, all authors for some cen- 

 turies before Linnaeus. This was Salisbury's offense against one 

 great rational principle of nomenclature; this his unfaithfulness 

 to his predecessors and contemporaries. Why need we, in our 

 attempts to restore to him his rights, stand by him in his own 

 wrong-doing? The following names and synonyms will illus- 

 trate my meaning: 



Castalia alba. — NymphcBa alba, Mathiolus, Comm. Diosc. 

 (1558); Valerius Cordus, Hist (1561); Pena & Lobel, Adv. 

 (1570); Dodoens, Pempt (1585); Camerarius, Epit. (1586); 

 Tabern^emontanus, Icones, (1590); Gerarde, Herbal, (1633); J. 

 Bauhin, Hist. (1651); Plukenet, Aim. (1691); Ray, Syn. (1696 

 and 1724) ; Blackwell, Herbal, (1737); Linnseus, Sp. PI. (i753); 

 '' ence all authors, almost to Castalia speciosa, Salisb. (1805); 

 Britten (1888). 



Castalia odorata. — Nymphcza odorata, Dryander, in Hort. 

 Kew., ii, p. 22>7 (1803): Castalia piidica, Salisb. (1805); Britten 

 (1888). 



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