216 PITTONIA. 
the ordinal name Umbellifere by A. L. de Jussieu in his 
Genera Plantarum, published in 1789." ! 
Full twenty-three years before the issue of Jussieu's 
genera, Henry J. N. Crantz, a learned botanist and a man of 
striking originality, whose long neglected works are now 
regaining a deserved place in the esteem of all botanieal 
systematists, published in his Institutiones Rei Herbaria, 
exactly this order of plants under the now familiar and uni- 
versal name Umbellifere. Adanson three years before 
Crantz headed his dissertation upon the order, with the 
French, * Les Ombelliferes," preceding the Latin, “ Umbella- 
te.” But still ten years earlier than Adanson, the celebrated 
Albert Haller, in the Enumeratio Plantarum Horti et Agri 
Gottingensis precisely limited this order and called it Umbel- 
lifere. I think he was the first; so that the order, strictly 
limited to true Umbellifere and so named, dates from the 
publieation of Haller's Hortus Gottingensis, in 1753 ; Crantz 
having followed him in 1766, and Jussieu in 1789. 
BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE IN NORTH AMERICA. 
{From the Yournal X pidas for November, 1888; reprinted here by 
t of subscribers to Prrronra. | 
Light and help on the subject of nomenclature we long 
since learned to expect from every paragraph thereon which 
might emanate from the editorship of this Journal Certain 
recent animadversions' are not in this regard a disappoint- 
ment. The article upon which it seems needful to offer one 
more word of comment is, sold the whole, a very instructive 
! Revis. Umb. p. 4. 
? Journ. Bot. 1888, p. 257. 
