192 PITTONIA. 



LILj;Oi'SIS. 



Crantzia, Nutt. Gen. i. 177 (1818), not of Sclireber (1789), 

 nor of Swartz (1788), nor of Scopoli (1777). 



Nuttall in proposing Cranizia as a name for this genus of 

 the Urnbelliferae makes no mention of any other earlier 

 employment of the name than that of Vahl and Swartz. 

 There had been as many as three or four other applications 

 of it before Nuttall's time ; and the earliest of all is that of 

 Scopoli, who so named a Gesneriaceous genus which is more 

 or less frequently accepted as a good one ; and Eafinesqiie, 

 as late as 1838, proposed for it a new name, Lophalix,^ which 

 was not called for, except upon the supposition that the very 

 latest Cranizia, that of Nuttall, might be stubbornly retained 

 in spite of the fact of its being a " dead " name. Our plant 

 bears a close likeness to the genus Likea. 



LiLJiOPsis LiNEATA. Hijdvocotyle lineata, Mich. Fl. i. 162 

 (1803). Crantzia linexda, Nutt. Gen. 1. c. 



NEMOSERIS. 



r 



. Am. Phil. Soc. vii. 429 (1841), 



not of Eafinesque (1838, and earlier). 



The genus which Eafinesque, in the Sylva Telluriana, 

 dedicated to himself, has for its type the Bignonia cccridea 

 of Linnaeus, a plant separated from Bignonia even by Jussieu, 

 and placed by him in Jucaranda. What disposal may have 

 been made of it by recent writers upon the Bignouiaceie I 

 know not. I am equally ignorant as to what may have been 

 the type of the still earlier Bufmesqnia, Eaf., nor do I know 

 when or where it was published. Our West American herbs 

 known hitherto under this duplicate and reduplicate name, 

 were placed in Eafinesque's Ftaoria (StepJumomeria, Xutt.) 



Hooker 



1. 



Sylva Telluriana. 70. 



