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both Calopogon and Limodorum and apply Salisbury’s name to the 
Northern species, which will accordingly stand as follows: 
CATHEA TUBEROSA (L). 
Limodorum tuberosum, L. Sp. Pl. 950 (1753). 
Cathea pulchella, Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 300 (1812). 
Calopogon pulchellus, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, v., 204 
(1813), and later authors. 
Listera, R. Br—Kuntze has adopted Rafinesque’s name 
“ Diphyllum” as anterior to Listera. The word originally mis- 
spelled “ Diphryllum,” and several times subsequently in Ra- 
finesque’s published writings, Kuntze seems to think should be re- 
tained inthis form on that account, but Rafinesque himself spells it 
correctly in his “ Herdarium Rafinesquianum,’ and there seems to 
be no good reason why an evident misspelling should not be cor- 
rected. It is, however, inadmissible as a substitute for Lzszera, as 
the description given by Rafinesque in Rep. N. Y. Med. Repos., 
2nd Hexade v., 357,(1808), clearly shows. He speakes of his plant 
as having “ 2 interior petals. . . bifid; lip acute, entire; capsule 
filiform,’ which is entirely inapplicable to any of our published 
species. There is preserved in the library of the New York 
Academy of Science a curious old volume of proof plates of vari- 
ous species drawn by Rafinesque, among which is a drawing of 
this plant, the figure of which corresponds exactly to the author's 
description. What plant was meant it is impossible to say, but it 
is evidently not a species of our Listera. Stine! the nime 
of Brown holds good. 
Spiranthes, Richard, 1818, must give way to Gyrostachys of 
Persoon, 1807, as has been well shown by Kuntze, and our species 
known as Sfiranthes should be classed under the older name. es 
Probably Kuntze is also correct in displacing Liparis, Richard 
1818, by Leptorchis, Du Petit-Thouars, 1809, but I have not been 
able to get hold of the work cited by Kuntze (Nouv. Bull. Soc. 
Phil. 314-19) and cannot verify his date. . 
Goodyera R. Br. (1813) is antedated by Orchiodes, Siegesbeck, | 
1737 (Supp. 13) and by Peramium of Salisbury (Trans. Hort. Soc. _ 
i. 301) 1812. Under our rules Peramium must be substituted for 
Goodyera. 
Epipactis—The history of this name is a curious one, showing : 
