378 Barnhart : NoMENXLATrRAL Notes 



scription of Gyvuuvidra BnUii. Strangely enough this name has 

 been overlooked or ignored by all subsequent writers, and is not 

 mentioned by any of them even as a s}'non)'m. The nomcncla- 

 tural history of this species thus appears to be : 



Wulfenia Bullii (Eat.) 



Gyinimifdra BuIlH P^at.; Eat. & Wr. N. Am. I?ot. 259. 1840. 

 SyntJiyris HougJitoiiinDia Benth.; DC. Prodr. 10:454. 1846. 

 IVnlfoiia Ho2{gJitouia)ia Greene, Erythea 2 : 83. 1894. 



6. Loniccra cUiata Muhl. Tliis is undoubtedly the Z. Cana- 

 doish of Marshall, altliough the latter does not seem to liave been 

 Cited by any recent writer. 



LoNiCERA Canadensis Marsh. Arb. Am. 81. 1785 



Loniccra cilia fa Muhl. Cat. 23. 18 13. 



7. Oiscnta glomcrata Choisy. In Britton & Brown's Illus- 

 trated Flora, Choisy's name has been replaced by C, paradoxa 

 Raf. (1820). But this was not Rafincsquc's first name for the 

 plant. In reporting his •' Western Discoveries " in the American 

 ^Monthly Magazine, in 18 18. he described it under the name C. 



' apJiylla ; a somewhat inappropriate name, considering that all the 

 species of Cusctita are practically leafless, and this is doubtless why 

 Rafinesquc afterward changed it. By the description, '* stems 

 evanescent," ''flowers in large and tliick glomerules round the 



stems of other plants,'' and especially the *'two long filiform 

 styles "; by the habit, ''it surrounds the stems of many singenesous 

 \i. c, syngenesiousj plants ;" and by the range **in the prairies of 

 Indiana and Illinois,. near the Wabash, and in the barrens of Ken- 

 tucky/' this Cnscuta apJiylla is as unmistakable in its identity as 

 an}' plant ever described b}' Rafinesque. Its synonymy is : 



Cuscuta apiivlla Raf. Am. Mo, Mag. 4: 40. N. 18 18 



Cuscuta paradoxa Raf Ann. Nat. 13. 1820. 



Cuscuta glo))icrata Choisy, Mem. Soc. Gren. 9: 184,//. ^. 



y! /, 1841. 



Lcpidanchc coniposiiaruin Engelm. Am. Jour. Sci. 43 : 344, />/. 



8. Generic names zurongly credited. It would be well if bota- 

 nists would exercise a little more care in referrin^^ crcneric names 



