SOME GENERA OF EAEINESQUE. 121 



LEPARGYRJEA. 



Rafiuesque, Am. Monthly Mag. ii. 176 (Jan. 1818) ; Journ. 



de Pliys. 260 (1819). Shepherdia, Nutt. Gen. ii. 240 (late iu 

 1S18). 



In the coarse of a vigoroixs and well pointed dissertation on 

 Pursli's Flora— at the page of the American Monthly Maga- 

 zine above cited — Rafineso[ne has this paragraph: ^'Hippophae 

 argenfea does not belong to that genus, having the flowers as 

 m Elceagnus and the fruit as in Hippophaej it has been 

 made a new genus, and called Lepargfjrea by Eafinesque in 

 riorula Missurica." We know that, at the time of his writing 

 the paragraph, ''Florida Missurica" had not been printed ; 

 tor upon the same page of this magazine, under another sub- 

 ject, he refers to the work as ^'yet in manuscript/* I do not 

 know that the book — or paper — was ever published. This, 

 however, is of no importance. It does not affect the case of 

 Lepargyrcva as prior to Shepherdia; for, in this very review 

 he repeats his proposed new generic name, and its equivalent, 

 quite unmistakably ; so that, as making its appearance here, 

 m the columns of a journal advertised as devoted in part to 

 science, there can jiever arise any doubt of the adequacy of 

 scientific publication ; while the fact that as therein pub- 

 lished it has about a year of priority over Sltepherdia^ is 

 equally beyond question- Nuttall's ''Genera," at least as com- 

 plete — and Shepherdia comes in only near the end of the 

 work — seems not to have been issued until about the end of 

 1818, It was in the January issue of the Monthly Magazine 

 for the succeeding year, just a year after the publishing of 

 I^^ixirgynea^ that Eafinesque reviewed Nuttall's celebrated 

 ^ork. In this review, it may seem as if he had forgotten his 

 own publishing of LcpargyviVM ; for he mentions Shepherdia 

 ^s one of NuttalFs proposed new genera, only to write 

 pophae as its equivalent ; but before the end of that year he 

 must have recalled to mind the fact that he had published it 

 as a genus himself ; for in the Journal de Physique in that 



