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to their correct source. This is true especially of pre-Linnacan 

 names ** revived'' since 1753. Even in Britton & Brown's Illus- 

 trated Flora we have Abies, Alalus^ and Linaria referred to Jus- 

 sieu's Genera Plantaruni (1789), while species under each are 

 credited to Miller's Gardener's Dictionary (Ed. 8, 1768); '' Meli- 

 lotus, Juss. 1789/' but '' Melilotiis officinalis l^^m. 1778;" " Hell- 



anthoimm Pers. 1 807/' but two species credited to Michaux 

 (1803) ; and other similar cases, 



A much-neglected work, perhaps because so rare, is HilTs 

 British Herbal, published in 1756. Among the pre-Linnaean 

 names here used, we find the following, usually referred to a much 

 later date : Abies, Al/iiis, Castanea, Cynibalaria, Fagopynnn, Hypo- 

 pitys, Linaria, Mains, Melilotns, Ostrya and Uhnaria. The generic 

 and specific descriptions in this work are clear and accurate. It is 

 true that the binominal system of Linnaeus is not adopted, but 

 this is also true of P. Browne's History of Jamaica, Haller's His- 

 toria Stirpium Helvetiae, the first edition of Scopoli's Flora Carni- 

 olica, Necker's Elementa Botanica, and many other w^orks which 

 are constantly cited for generic names. Most of the names in this 

 book, w^hich might otherwise replace those now in use, are com- 

 pound, and likely to be avoided on that account, although such 

 names as Filix-nias, Bnrsa-pastoris, and Dens-leonis in themselves 

 appear to the writer to be no more objectionable than Mescnibry- 

 antlicninin, Dactyloetoiinni, and Kostelctzkya, and far preferable to 

 the specific name Carolinae-septentrionalis recently perpetrated by 

 a Southern contemporary. 



9. Dates of Publication. In the recently issued Part 3^ of his 

 Revisio Gencrum Plantarum, Dr. Kuntze maintains* that Barton's 

 Compendium Florae Philadephicae w^as issued in January, 18 18, and 

 is the original place of publication of some of Nuttall's names, 

 such as Epifagns. In fact, the title of Barton's Compendium was 

 not deposited to secure copyright until July 9, 1818 ; the preface 

 is dated July 11, 1818 ; the true date of the publication must have 

 been later than the former. NuttalTs Genera was published later 

 than the middle of May, 1818 ; possibly later than Barton's Com- 

 pendium (as suggested by the writer in a former papert), but prob- 

 ably not. 



^Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 3^: 160. 1898. 

 j- Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 24 : 409. 1897. 



