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glauca, O. Kuntze, but an earlier authority for the name is 

 Caruel, in Parlatore's " Fl. Ital," vol. viii. (i 889), 503. Messrs. 

 Groves have also wisely retained, as was also suggested in 

 these pages, the old Linnean names of Viola canina, 

 Epilobium alpiiiutn, E. tetragonum, Valeriana offidnalis, 

 Car ex canescems, C. leporina, Agrostis alba, etc., as well as 

 Sporganium erectnm, S. nataus, etc. 



At one time Hill's "British Herbal" was not considered by 

 many botanists as being valid for the citation of genera, 

 since it was a work which did not use the reformed nomen- 

 clature of Linnaeus. Now the editors cite freely from it, 

 and the genera Mariana (Silybuvi), Pneuinaria (Mertensia\ 

 Phyllitis (Scolopenditim\ Radicnla (Nasturtium}^ and Cam- 

 inarum (Eranthis] are employed. But if this " British Herbal " 

 of 1756 be a valid source for genera, other changes are 

 rendered necessary, since it appeared before the seventh 

 edition of Miller's "Gardener's Dictionary" of 1759, whence 

 several of our genera date, or the eighth edition of 1768, 

 where the binomial system is first consistently used by Miller. 

 So that the genera Limonium, Glauciwn, Fceniculum, Menui, 

 Valerianella, Petasites, Hypopitys (Babington uses Monotropa), 

 Fagopyrum, Almis, Castanea, and Polygonatum should be cited 

 of Hill rather than from Miller, Adanson, or other later 

 writers. Instead of Limnantlieimini, Gmel., NyutpJioides, 

 Hill, has precedence, and our Fringed Water-Lily becomes 

 N. orbiculata, Gilib. The various species of Epipactis must 

 be transferred to Helleborine, Hill, I.e. p. 477, as H. latifolia 

 (All.) and var. atroviridis (W. R. Linton), H. Media (Fries), 

 H. violacea (Boreau), H. sessilifolia (Peterm.), H. atrorubens 

 (Schultz), H. ovalis (Bab.), and H. pahistri s (Schrank). The 

 genus ErythrcEa, which is quoted as of Necker, must also be 

 replaced by Hill's genus Centaurinui, a name which has 

 already been adopted in the " Flora of Nieder-Oesterreich," 

 by G. Beck. Our plants are Centauriwn inaperlum, Rafn. (E. 

 ramosissiina, Pers.), and var. tennifloruui (Link), C. umbellatmn, 

 Gilib.; (E. Centauriwn^ Pers.), and var. capitatum (Koch), C. 

 latifolium (Sm.), C. linear ia>folium, Beck (C. littoralis, Fries), 

 and C. capitatum (Willd.). There is also a hybrid of 

 C. uuibellatuni with C. linearitzfolium, i.e. C. intermedium 

 (Wheldon). 



