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is retainea in accordance with the International Rules, and 
Jepson, Flora of Western Middle California, adopts the same 
attitude. Forty new combinations under Alsine have been pro- 
osed for North American species of Stellaria; and eight new 
species of Stellaria have been published under Alsine. Robinson 
mentions an example of the haste in which the change of nomen- 
clature has proceeded: ‘‘the Alsine Jamesw of Holzinger, 
supposed to represent Stellaria Jamesw, Torr., in reality rests 
upon a mixture of the very different S. ovyphylla and a luxuriant 
form of the cosmopolitan S. media.’’* 
Some of the more important generic references of Stellaria are 
given below :— 
Stellaria, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 421 (1753); Gen. Pl. ed. 
5, p. 193 (1754); Cyrill. Char. Comm. p. 36 (1784); Vill. Hist. 
. Dauph. iii. p. 615 (1789), emend.; Gaertn. De Fructibus, 
ii. p. 229, t. 180, £. 8 (1791); Endl. Gen. p. 969 (1840); A. Gray, 
Gen. Ill. ii. p. 87, t. 113 (1849); Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 
p. 149 (1862); Boiss. Fl. Or. i. p. 705 (1867); Nyman Consp. 
p: 111 (1878); Pax in Engl. et Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ill. 
1 B, p. 79 (1889); Robinson in A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. be 
part 1, p. 232 (1897); Robinson et Fernald, Gray’s New Man. 
Bot. p. 381 (1908). 
Alsine, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 272 (1753), pro parte (4. media, 
Linn.); Linn. Gen. ed. 5, p. 182 (1754), pro parte; Scop. Fl. 
Carniol. ed, 2, i. p. 224 (1772); Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. ii. p. 
536 (1812), excl. A. rotundifolia; Britton in Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Club, 1893, xx. p: 277; et in Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, v. p. 149 
(1894); Kuntze, Rev. Gen. iii. p. 12 (1898); Britton, Man. FI. 
Northern States & Canada, p. 394 (1907); Britton et Brown, Ill. 
. ed. 2, ii. p. 41 (1913); Small, Fl. South-eastern United 
) 
to Spergularia, in his Flora Germanica Excursoria, p. 566 (1832). 
He included the following species: A: segetalis, L., A. rubra, 
Wahlenb:, A. marina; Mert. et Koch, and A. marginata (DE.). 
but A. segetalis is sometimes regarded as the type of an indepen- 
dent genus, Delia, Dum. 
Reichenbach’s action was not followed by his contemporaries : 
the generic name Spergularia was adopted in Endlicher’s Genera 
Plantarum (1840), and in most standard floras published since 
that date. In 1899, however, Hiern revived the use of Alsine 
for Spergularia,t and the name was accepted in the same sense 
by H. and J. Groves in 1904,¢ and Britten and Rendle in 1907. 
In 1906, however, Spergularia was placed on the list of Nomina 
Conservanda provided for in Article 20 of the International 
ules. || 
Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 9, p. 67 (1904). 
Brit. Mus., List. Brit. Seed-plants, p. ‘ (1907). 
