40 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



would be more correctly spelled with a capital letter : 

 Hippophce rhamnoides Rkamnoides was the old generic 

 name, as was Lutetiana for Circcea, Linoides for Radiola, and 

 Falcata for Medicago Falcata. 



Many of the names given in the Catalogue do not follow 

 the law of priority. It would be well to carry out this law 

 as far as possible. Among the names which appear to be 

 antedated are Alyssum calycinum, Linn., which dates from 

 the second edition of the " Species Plantarum" ; but A. Alys- 

 soides of the " Systema " is apparently earlier. ScJwllera, 

 Roth, is antedated by Oxycoccus, Adans. (" Fam.," p. 1 6, 

 1763). The species is Oxycoccus palustris, Pers., as adopted 

 in the " Index Kewensis." An older name for Hypericum 

 quadratuui) Stokes, is H. acutuin, Monch, " Meth." Falcaria 

 is undoubtedly antedated by Adanson's genus Prionitis ; 

 and the plant should be Prionitis falcata, Delarb. The 

 compiler of the Catalogue says he does not cite pre-Linnean 

 authorities ; but Rivinus, whom he cites for Falcaria, was 

 certainly pre-Linnean. The writer who was the first to use 

 the name Falcaria for the genus after 1753, according to 

 the " Kew Index," is Host in " Fl. Austr.," 1827. Linnaeus 

 called the plant Sium Falcaria. Goodyera of Robert Brown, 

 in Aiton's " Hort. Kew.," 1813, is antedated by Peramitim 

 repens, Salisb., " Trans. Hort. Soc.," 1812. The generic name 

 Centranthus is obviously antedated by that of Kentranthus, 

 which was used by Necker in 1790. Our plant should be 

 Kentranthus ruber. Carex alpina, Swartz, 1803, appears to 

 be antedated by the name of C. Va/ilii, Schk., 1801, which is 

 adopted in the " Index Kewensis." Polygonum Rail, Bab., was 

 P. Roberti, Loisel., of the eighth edition. The latter name 

 is also adopted in the " Kew Index." The authority for 

 Narthecium is given as Moehring ; but, strictly speaking, he is 

 pre-Linnean, since he published this genus in 1742. Hudson 

 was the first to use it after the date of 1753. Damasonium 

 stellatum, Pers., should be D. Alisma, Miller, as given in the 

 " Kew Index." In the Catalogue Carex punctata is replaced 

 by the name C. dilnta, Bieb. ; but the older name is C. 

 pallidior, Degl., in Lois. " Fl. Gall," ii. p. 299 (1807). More- 

 over, in " Index Kewensis," and in Richter's " PI. Europeae," 

 C. diluta is retained as a distinct species from the plant 



