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FLORA OF NORTHEEN UNITED STATES, CANADA, ETC 



or stout ; leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, verticillate in 



4's-lO's or some of them 

 alternate, acuminate, 2'-6' 

 long, 3"-15" wide, finely 

 roughened on the margins 

 and on the veins beneath ; 

 flowers 1-16, nodding on 

 longpeduucules ; peduncules 

 sometimes bearing a small 

 leaf-like bract ; perianth- 

 segments 2'-3' long, yellow 

 or red, usually thickly spotted 

 below, recurved or spreading, 

 not clawed ; capsule oblong, 

 erect, Ih'-^' long. 



In swamps, meadows, 

 and fields, Nova Scotia to 

 Ontario and Minnesota, 

 south to Georgia, Alabama, 

 and Missouri. Ascends to 

 6000 ft. in North Carolina. 

 Red-flowered forms with 

 slightly spreading perianth- 

 segments resemble the fol- 

 lowing species, and forms with strongly recurved segments. 

 L. superbum. June-July." 



We are not going to raise for discussion points of nomenclature, 

 but we think our readers may like to know the rules which (for the 

 present) are adopted by a large number of American botanists. 

 With some of them we are in entire accord ; others are open to 

 discussion ; some we think undesirable, and we doubt whether they 

 are likely to be generally adopted. We cannot think botanists will 

 endorse the action by which the well-known Kuiuigia of Linnaeus is 

 set aside in favour of the brand-new Macoiinastrum — merely because 

 Adanson had a name Konuj, which has never been taken up — although 

 such action may be a legitimate outcome of the application of Rules 

 5 and 8. Nor can we regard Rule 10 as of equal importance with 

 the rest, although it covers Dr. Brittou's action in preferring Tissa 

 to Buda, under circumstances which will be familiar to our readers. 



The Rules are as follow : — 



" Rule 1. — Priority of pubHcation is to be regarded as the fundamental 

 principle of botauical nomenclature. 



"Bale 2. — The botanical nomenclature of both genera and species is 

 to begin with the pubUcation of the first edition of Linnieus' Species 

 Plantar am in 1758. 



"Rule 3. — In the transfer of a species to a genus other than the one 

 under which it was first published, the original specific name is to be 

 retained. 



'^ Rule -i. — The original name is to be maintained whether published 

 as species, subspecies, or variety. 



" Rule 5. — The publication of a generic name or a binomial invalidates 



