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A selection of the principal generic references of Spergularia 
under that name and Alsine is given below. The remaining 
generic synonyms may be found in Harms et Dalla Torre, Gen. 
Siphonog. p. 158, and Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. v. p. 826 
(Spergularia) and p. 852 (Delia). After Alsine, the oldest name 
for the genus is 7issa, Adans. 1763). Schinz and Keller, Fl. 
Schweiz, ed. 3, p. 204 (1909), restrict Alsine to Delia, Dum., 
7, i6 
(1844); A. Gray, Gen. Ill. ii. p. 27, t. 108 (1849); Benth. et 
Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 152 (1862); Rouy. et Fouc. Fl. France, 
lil. p. 299 (1896); Act. Congr. Bot. Vienna, 1905, p. 241 (1906) ; 
1919). 
. et J. ves 1 
: : . ed. 9, p. 67 (1904); Britten et 
Rendle, List Brit. Seed-plants, p- 6 (1907). 
The history of Alsine, Linn., before 1753, shows that A. media 
was the type of Alsine, Linn. (1753-4). Alsine was a Tourne- 
fortian genus adopted by Linnaeus in 1735.* His description 
in Gen. Pl. ed. 1, p. 183 (1737) included the characters petala 
bipartita,’’ ‘* filamenta decem,’’ ‘‘styli tres” and “ capsula 
sexvalvis,’’ and he added the following note: ‘‘ Quaedam species 
luxuriat stylis quinque, alia filamenta facillime dejicit, ut vix 
nerar1 queant.’’ In the Hortus Cliffortianus, p. 172 (1737), 
he included in Alsine by citation Stellaria graminea, S. Holostea, 
S. media, S. nemorum and S. aquatica. Alsine, Linn. (1737) 
was therefore equivalent to Stellaria, Linn. as circumscribed at 
the present day (including Malachium) Linnaeus pub- 
ural ge 
transferred Alsi , Ww 
gynia, and retained the generic name Alsine for it; and placed 
» Which was pentagynous, in Decandria 
is caryophyllaceous genera of 
a of such changes much less natural 
s va lece 
that this was the type of Alsine, Linn, (1753), rather than A. 
di Alsine, Linn. (1737).+ 
cover both, as is evident from the omission of the number of 
yak Nat. ed. 1, Decandria Trigynia (1735). 
“@ SPpears to have been generally regarded as the t f 
Alsine for more than 50 years after 1753—see vere Syn. i. p. 330 (1808), and 
Guillemin in Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. xi. p. 205 (1827). 
