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named as Diclytras long ago, some by Borckhausen himself, 
others by the elder De Candolle. 
It is delightful to see the oriental name Belamcanda 
(Adanson, 1763), instead of the usual Pardanthus (Gawler, 
1805); and one can not but wish our friends had restored to 
its place one other Adansonian name, 2. €, Tissa (1763), 
instead of Lepigonum ( Fries, 1817). Here also we may be 
allowed to suggest that “ Spergularia, Pers.” can hardly be 
appended in parenthesis as if a more recent equivalent of 
Lepigonum; for Persoon wrote it only as subgeneric or sec- 
tional under Arenaria. If he had proposed it as generic it 
would have antedated Lepigonum, for Persoon's date is 1805. 
Another bit of good service I fancy our industrious Torrey 
Club people, with their library facilities, might have rendered 
us, in determining the prior appellation of that genus which 
they still call Smilacina. Mr. Baker of Kew, in his recent 
elaboration of the Liliacese, adopted for it the name Tovaria, 
to which course Dr. Gray objected, and showed that that, or 
at least its full equivalent, Tovara (Adanson, 1763), was 
employed to designate generically a very peculiar polygona- 
ceous plant, Polygonum Virginianum, Linn., a genus which 
Dr. Gray thought might be found worthy to be restored. I 
have not access to the writings of Desfontaines, but I am 
confident that Polygonastrum (Mcench, 1794), is older than 
Smilacina, and think it may be that name which the genus is 
entitled to bear. 
On page 49 of the Preliminary Catalogue is well shown the 
need there was of investigating the specific nomenclature of 
+ Not so with the more recent western species, which need the follow- 
ing re-adjustment : 
Dictyrra curysantHa—Dielytra chrysantha, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 
320: Dicentra chrysantha, Boland. Catal. 4; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Cal. i. 24. 
Dictyrra ocnRoLEvCA—Dicentra ochroleuca, Engelm. Bot. Gaz. vi (1881) 
223. 
DICLYTRA uwrFLORA— Dicentra uniflora, Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. iv. 
141: Watson, Bot. Cal. ii. 429. 
DIOLYTRA PAUOIFLORA—2icentra pauciflora, Watson, |. c. 
