152 PITTONIA. 
appending of oides to a name already in use. This most 
excellent rule of Linneus has, indeed, been openly violated 
in several of our more recent American catalogues, and, I 
regret to say, in so influential a book as Dr. Britton’s Jilus- 
trated Flora is sure to become, by the adoption of Adanson’s 
Juncoides in place of the legitimate and correct name 
Luzula. We are glad of that inconsistency by which our 
Rochesterians have ignored Helleboroides, and, in defiance 
of their own rules, retained the forty years more recent 
name Eranthis. The retirement of so beautifully signifi- 
cant a name as Hranthis is,in any case, almost to be de- 
plored; nevertheless under the law of priority it is inevi- 
table; for that unappreciated, yet not incompetent botanist, 
John Hill, appears to have been the first of botanical | 
authors to publish the Winter Hellebore as forming a dis- 
tinct genus. And, since this was done subsequently to the 
year 1753, and the name has no defect by which it could be 
ruled out, it will be adopted by all, except such as deny the 
right of priority—if such there be. E o 
Hill's description of the plant is full, and is accompanied 
by a very good figure; and his name for the genus i$ 
CAMMARUM; one which, as I intimated at the outset, has 
not been mentioned by any of our bibliographers, and is 
omitted doubtless through mere oversight, even from the 
Index Kewensis, except as applied somewhat recently to quite 
another genus. I have no practical acquaintance with any 
other than the type-species; and that must be called 
CAMMARUM HYEMALE. 
Aconitum. hyemale, Camer. 1. c. (1586). 
Helleborus hyemalis, Linn. (1753). 
Eranthis hyemalis, Salisb. (1807). 
Kellea hyemalis, Bir. (1811). 
Robertia hyemalis, Mer. (1813). 
The genus is published in the British Herbal (1756); page — 
47 of that folio being devoted to a very full account of the 
