CORRECTIONS IN NOMENCLATURE. —ll. 
It is manifest that the name ANTHANOTIs of Rafinesque 
enjoys the right of priority over Elliott’s Podostigma, and 
must supersede it. Both were published in 1817, the former 
in the Flora Ludoviciana, p. 52, the latter in the Sketch, p. 
326. Rafinesque's first allusion to Elliott's work is made 
under the “Additions,” or supplementary pages done after 
the body of the work had been completed, and, presumably, 
issued. The reference to Elliott, in Fl. Ludov., p. 149, indi- 
cates a kind of superficiality in reading, and a carelessness of 
writing which are often characteristic of Rafinesque. He 
says, “ Mr. Elliott has given to the genus Anthanotis the name 
Acerates ;” but this is not true. It may well be that Rafin- 
esque had it in mind to include all the Acerates species in 
his Anthanotis, but he never named them so, and his Antha- 
notis has for its type the same species which Elliott took for 
the type of Podostigma, namely, the Asclepias pedicellata of 
Walter: and both authors added to the genus the very dif- 
ferent A. viridis, Walt., which is the type of Asclepiodora, 
Gray. Since, therefore, Elliott’s asclepiads were not out until 
the Flora Ludoviciana was finished, as to its main part, it 
seems to me that, instead Podostigma pubescens, Ell., one must 
Write ANTHANOTIS PEDICELLATA (Walt.), Raf. 
EuPHonBIA Rarinesquu. E. hirsuta, Wiegand in Bot. 
Gaz. xxiv. 50 (1897). The specific name hirsuta is here pre- 
cluded by either one of the following: E. hirsuta, Schur 
(1853), and E. hirsuta, Kitaibel (1866). It is also unsafe, in 
dealing with eastern species of Euphorbia, to ignore the fact 
that Rafinesque published two or three, one at least from 
the very region which the present plant inhabits; the one 
I have in mind as possibly identical with this of Mr. Wie- 
gand being also under an untenable specific name. 
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