490 



Kuntze: The Advantages of 1737 as a 



Mi 



13 Miclidia (non 1735). 



156 



y 



1 Obolaria (non 1736). 



8 OrnitJiopus (^Or/iithopodiani 17 ■ 



2 Patagonnla {^Patagoiiica 1735). 

 220 Oxalis {.\cctosclla 1736). 



27 Phlox {^Aniitria 1735). 



540 



^/ 



TO Pistacia {Lcntiscus 1735). 

 1 10 Psidiu}}i {Guajava 1736), if separated. 

 105 Psoralen [LotoJcs 1736). 

 120 Rlnis (Toxicodiudroii 173 5)- 



r 5 Scsauium ( Volkauicria 1735). 



54 Sisyrinchiuni {^Bcruutdiana 1735). 



r 



Stap 



115 Tliesiuni {JJnosyris 1736). 



48 



jpacoIuDi (Tropli 



75 Trigonella {^Tilis 1735). 

 44 TricJioscDithes {Anguina 173 5) 

 I Zca (Th.dj'sla 17 



1 

 d 



628 J species in ^S genera with long-used names remain 

 thus valid. But 329 species in 9 genera, valid from the former 

 starting point, receive new names ; therefore S95^ species in /p 

 jcncra arc spared, that is, arc less to be changed, In their names, 



< 



if \vc begin with 1737 instead of 1735. But this is the only prof- 

 itable deviation from the Paris Code. 



Moreover, the starting of 1737 affords the great advantage, that 

 Linnaeus' Genera PlantarunV 1737 contains besides the scientific 

 diagnoses of the genera (which are in 1753 without diagnoses !) 

 also definitions for named subgenera or discretionary genera ; by 

 wdiich means an easy separation is possible into later distinguished 

 genera. Linnaeus wrote, for instance : Hyachithus, genus hoccc 

 naturale in plura non naturalia distribuerunt: («) HyaciHt]ms(\\\\xr\\ 

 tubus corollae sit tubulatus oblongus : (^9) Muscar'i quum tubus 

 corollae sit fere globosus. In the same manner Is distinguished 



if^ 



The last is 



now mostly valid for Majanthcmum. In the year 1737 Myagnim 



