NEGLECTED GENERIC TYPES. 49 
I here enumerate only such species as have been attrib- 
uted to North America. 
S. PENTAPETALA. Dryas pentapetala, Linn. Amon. ii. 353 
(1750), and Sp. Pl. i. 501 (1753). Dryas anemonoides, Pallas, 
Reise, iii. App. n. 92. t. xxviii. fig. 2(1776). Anemone pusilla, 
Gertn. Com. Petrop. xiv. 543, t. xix. fig. 2, 3, vide Pallas. 1. c. 
Caryophyllata Camtschatica, Lam. Encyl. i. 395 (1783). Geum 
anemonoides, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 1117 (1799).  Sieversia anemo- 
noides, Willd. Berl. Mag. v. 397 (1811) Originally’ from 
Kamischatka, the species was credited by Pursh to our 
“ Northwest Coast and the Kurile Islands,” apparently on the 
authority of specimens in Lambert's herbarium obtained 
from Pallas. But Gray,in the Flora of North America, after 
having seen the specimens cited by Pursh, quotes Pallas' 
labels thus: “Islands towards the coast of America," and 
“ Unalaska "; but the actual occurrence of this plant either 
on or near the American Continent seems to need verifica- 
tion, 
I quite sympathize with those authors who have dropped 
the earliest specific name pentapetala in favor of the second 
one, anemonoides ; for the earlier, given under Dryas, when 
it was very fitting, is absurd in a genus where all the species 
are pentapetalous. But these are days in which it seems 
uselesss to attempt to resist the tide of feeling for strict 
priority. 
S. GLACIALIS, R. Br. l c. (1824). Geum glaciale, Fisch. in 
Mem. Soc. Mose. ii. 187, t. xi, fig. 20(1809). Also an Asiatic 
species, but one whose occurrence in arctic or subarctic 
America is well authenticated. 
S. Rossi, R. Br. 1. c. (1824). Geum Rossii, Seringe, in DC. 
Prodr. ii. 553 (1825). Species exclusively North American 
and subarctic; but the two following have been confused 
with it. 
