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he made bold to displace here and there some binary generic name, 

 substituting one of a single word. A few examples of such action 

 on his part were brought forward under the heading of his taxonomy . 

 A more considerable exemplification of this practice is given below, 

 in a selection made from the first volume of the Viva I cones: 



Early binary generic names 



Fumus terras 

 Fumaria herba . 



Ferraria major 

 Consolida minor 

 Testiculus canis 

 Testiculus vulpis 



Lingua bubula 



Sacra herba 

 Verbenaca supina 

 Cincinnalis herba 

 Lacryma Junonis 

 Herba sanguinalis 

 Sanguis Mercurii 

 Mustelse sanguis 

 Crista gallinacea 

 Trixago minor 

 Quercula minor 



Scrophularia minor 

 Chelidonium minus 



Herba Apollinaris 

 Faba suilla 



Brunfelsian substitutes 



Capnos 

 Sanicula 



Satirion 

 = Borrago 



Verbena 



Chamaedrys 



Ficaria 



Hyoscyamus 



The credit of having reformed the nomenclature of genera by the 

 exclusion of names made up of two distinct words has been given to 

 Linnaeus, who, in the year 1751, is thought first to have laid down 

 such a principle. 1 But the actual reform had been quietly inaug- 

 urated by Brunfels two hundred and twenty years before Linnasus 

 came forward with his Philosophia Botanica. 



Sprengel, the one nineteenth century author of a Genera Planta- 

 rum who has observed the law of priority in the crediting of generic 

 names, ascribes to Brunfels the authorship of the following: 



Ammi Fragaria Pyrola 



Calendula Linaria Sanicula 



i Nomina generica ex duobus vocabulis integris, ac distinctis facta, e 

 Republica Botanica releganda sunt." Linn., Philosophia Botanica, Art. 242. 



