196 THE JOUKNAL OF liOTAJfY 



SOME KEMARKS ON NOMENCLATUIIE. 

 Et a. J. WiLMOTT, B.A., F.L.S. 



A rURTHER series of nomeiiclatural notes has Lean published by 

 Schinz & Thellung in Vierteljahrschrit't cler naturf. Ges. Zurich, Ixvi. 

 257-* (1921). The following British plant-names are mentioned : — 

 Ntmphozais^thus L. C. Kiehard, 1808 (May), antedates Nupliar 

 Smith (late 1808 or 1809) : see Fernald, 1919, in Khodora, xxi. 183-8. 

 Sehinz and Thellung suggest that Nujjhar might be made a nomen 

 conservandum. I agree with Sprague (p. 54) that such changes 

 should not be made until the question of conserving the usual name 

 has been considered : either all important names in continual and 

 constant use for fifty years or more should be retained or the list of 

 nomina conservanda should be altogether abolished. I would suggest 

 that the names now in the list would be better called nomina 

 conservatciy i.e., those of the original list of nomina conservanda 

 which actuall}' Avere conserved ; JSfujjliar would then be called a 

 nomen conservandum — at present it is necessarj^ to use the cumbrous 

 expressions " nomen conservandum me (or Congress. Yienn.) judice." 

 Fernald cites Eichard, pp. 63, 68, 103. In the library of the 

 National Herbarium we have Kichard's interleaved copy which he 

 presented to K. Brown, in which reference to Nympliozanthus 

 {Nympli(Pa also) has been lined out on p. 63. The paragraphs on 

 p. 68 beginning " L'amande de ce genus " and the succeeding one 

 have also been crossed out and a new account is given on the interleaf 

 — evidently as a result of the work for his 1811 paper, since the letter 

 is dated June 1811. 



HiESCHFELDiA IXCAXA (L., 1755 : Sinapis) Lagreze-Fossat, 

 1847; Fl. de Tarn et Garonne, 19 {Hirsh/eldia), much antedates 

 Lowe, 1868 (Ind. Kew.), for this combination. 



Caedamii^e HiEsrxA &uhsp.Jfea:uosa Forbes et Hemsley, 1886, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 43, antedates C. Jiirsuta subsp. silvatica 

 Rouy et Fouc, 1893. 



PoLYGALA seeptllifolia J. A, C. Hose, 1797, in Usteri, Ann. d. 

 Bot. xxi. 39, antedates P. serpyllacea Weihe, 1826. 



YiOLA mo:n'tana L. The authors' statements are erroneous, see 

 this Journal, liv. 261 (1916). 



Mela^deyum Rochling, 1812 : Deutschl. Fl. ed. 2, ii. 37 (over- 

 looked by S. & T., who state that Roehling's genus was without 

 description), is antedated by P/^j/50crn7;o;i Necker, 1790, Elem. ii. 164. 

 S. & T. suggest Melandryum as nomen conservandum., since JPliyso- 

 carpon has never contained an}^ specific name. It is to be noted that 

 Dalla Torre and Harms (Gen. Siphonog.) put Fhysocarpon under 

 2491 Lychnis while keeping up 2494 Ilelandrynm. M. dioicuni 

 dates from Simonkai, 1886: Enum. Fl. Transsilv. 129. 



Saxifeaga eosacea Moench. S. & T. would replace this by 

 S. decipiens Ehrh., 1790, Beitr. v. [175 : nomen nudum, the usual 

 citation] 47. On. p. 47 Ehrhart says that >S'. petrcea Both. tent. i. 

 184 is not ^. petrcBa L. but is his ^S*. decipiens, hence S. & T. sa}^ it is 

 not a nomen nudum because of Koth's locality cited — " in Hercyniae 



