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the name Schizonofus.'^ The initiative leading to this had 

 indeed been taken by Seringe five years before ; for he had 

 made of the shrub a subgenus^ Sorbaria, of Spircva.^ Between 

 the years 1832 and 1838, in the Athantic Journal, New Flora, 

 and Sylva Telluriana, Rafijiesque not only reiterated Lindley's 



idea which has since be 



!fol 



adopted In- others, in tbe way of dismemberiug the okl 

 Splrcea. He is apparently qnite unaware that Lindley has 

 preceded him in the S. sorhifoUa matter. This is evideut 

 from two circumstances. He makes of S. sorbi folia the genus 

 Basihma ; and then, upon the Spira'a discolor of America, 

 he founds a Schfzonoius.^ Tlie celebrated paper by Maximo- 

 wiez* whicli is so completely carrying the day in favor of 

 everything which Eafinesque proposed more than forty 

 years before him, I have not seen ; but from various reviews 

 and abstracts of it I infer he was unacquainted with what 

 Rafinesque had done. However this may be, it is clear that 

 the Schizonotus of Lindley must displace the Basilima of 

 Rafinesque and the Sorharia of Maximowicz ; also that it 

 nullifies the several years later Schizonotus of Eafinesque; 

 so that Maximowicz's Holodiscus is free, and entitled to that 

 currency which it is gaining. 



But since the Sorharia of this author is antedated by 

 Lindley 's Schizonotus, there must follow a chauge in the 

 name of a certain Californian genus. In the year 1876, upon 

 an Asclepiadeous type which had been sent him by the 

 present writer in 1874, the late Asa Gray offered a second 

 homonym of the Lindleyan Spirseaceous genus. In publish- 

 ing this, which became the third ScJiizonotus attempted, he 

 made no allusion to the two earlier applications of that name. 

 H3 had probably forgotten all about them : if indeed he had 



1 Intr. to Nat. Syst. ed. 1. p. 81 ; Bot. Eeg. xvi. under t. 1365. 

 ' DC. Prodr. ii. 645 (1825j. 



■ Fl. Tell. 151 & 152 (1838) ; perliaps earlier, in New Flora, or Atl. Jouru 

 Adiiotatioues de Spirseaceis fl879). 



