CORRECTIONS IN NOMENCLATURE. 187 
For a genus of beautiful amaryllids of the Western World 
Zephyranthes is a most admirable name; but it is one which, 
under the law of priority, cannot be maintained. And Ata- 
masco or ATAMOSCO, which certainly antedates it in publica- 
tion, is also not a displeasing appellation by any means. 
From a cursory examination of the history of the Ata- 
masco Lily, it appears that Rafinesque in 1825 supposed him- 
self to be assigning a tenable name to the genus as distinct 
from Amaryllis, when he proposed to call it Atamasco. He 
was doubtless unaware of Herbert’s having named it Zephy- 
ranthes in 1821. But I do not see how it has so long been 
overlooked that Adanson, as early as 1763, designated the 
Original species as type of a genus ATamosco. Only a few 
of the species are known to me. 
A. ATAMAsCO. Amaryllis Atamasco, Linn. sp. 292 (1753). 
Zephyranthes Atamasco, Herb. App. Bot. Reg. 36 (1821). The 
above combination—Atamosco Atamasco—is not to be inter- 
preted as approving duplicate binary names. There isa 
difference, though I admit it is small, in the pronunciation, 
as in the spelling of the two terms of the name. 
A. Treatim. Zephyranthes Treatix, Wats. Proc. Am. 
Acad. xiv. 300 (1879). Indigenous to eastern Florida. 
. A.BSrwPsowr. Zephyranthes Simpsoni, Chapm. F1. S. States, 
3 ed. 493 (1897). Low pine barrens of southern Florida. 
^ A. PULCHELLA. Zephyranthes pulchella, J. G. Smith, Sixth 
Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 114 (1895). Native of southern 
Texas. / 
A. TEXANA. Zephyranthes Texana. Herb. Bot. Mag. 
under t. 3482. Also a Texan species exclusively, as far as 
known. 
A. ARENICOLA. Zephyranthes arenicola, Brandg. Proc. 
Calif. Acad. 2 ser. ii. 205 (1889). Islands of the Mexican 
coast (of Lower California). . 
