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type-species, and the good colored figure illustrating it is 
on plate 7 of that work. 
To such as disapprove Scolopendrium Scolopendrium as a 
binary name it may come as a welcome bit of information 
that Scolopendrium cannot be maintained as the generic 
name for this fern-type. Tournefort’s genus-name for it, 
Lingua Cervina, no one would accept. Linneeus suppressed 
the genus, consigning the plant to Asplenium ; and the first _ 
to assert its generic rank, at least after 1753, was Hill, who 
restored to it one out of several pre-Tournefortian names for 
it, 4. e, PayLLITIS. I should therefore designate it as 
PHYLLITIS SCOLOPENDRIUM. 
Asplenium Scolopendrium, Linn. (1753). 
Phyllitis vulgaris, Hill, Brit. Herbal, 525 (1756). . 
Scolopendrium vulgare, Smith (1793). 
The futile endeavor, on the part of Linnsus, to merge 
in one genus such different plants as the cranberries and 
whortleberries has resulted in the usual large amount of 
synonymy for a small group of species. By right of prior- 
ity, the name of Oxycoccus of Tournefort is the only one 
for the cranberries. But more than one eminent botanist 
has held to the opinion that, when once the “ great Linnzus” 
had suppressed a genus, whoever resurrected it might give 
it, if he chose, an entirely new name; thus Roth, in 1788, 
applied a new name, Schollera, to Oxycoccus; and an 
American author, more than a century later, named the 
two American species under Schollera. But it is a fact 
which seems to have escaped the notice of all bibliographers 
that John Hill, only three years after 1753, restored the 
cranberry to generic rank, and under its rightful name, 
Oxycoccus. Hence, under the Rochester rules, the names 
to be employed by umm for our two American species 
