EEYTHEA. 



DE. BBITTON AND ME. BEITTEN AND JACKSONIA. 



By Edwaed L. Gbekke. 



_ Dr. N. L. Britton and Mr. James Britten, editors resnect- 



1 01 k and ,n London-representatiTes respectiyely of what 



the one has styled the Neo-American and the other the 



Paleo-Anghcan docWnes of plant naming-these two fr end! 



atee'elT on"" . -'^ '"""'^ '" ^""""^ themselves a 



agreement on a point m nomenclature. The latest occasion 

 of such happiness has come up in connection with EaZ 



«_ genus Jaoksonm; both of them having concTuded 



that I m my attempt to maintain this name, to the suppres 



sion of Polamsm, have failed inglorionsly 



. Now If Uie case were as simple as Dr. Britton's paragranh 



makes it; and :f the coup de grace, as Mr. Britten calls tf 



had been as effectually administered to JiCKSOmA a he' 

 into plant nomenclature, as governed by priority as havin „ 



Mr S" 'r''^"^ "* ''^"''""S even'^an eas;;ubiect ' 



* * * 



hshed at the place above cited as f olbws •" ^ 



Jacksonia (trifoliata )=C/eome dociecanc^m L '" Now 



snppiflc T?ofi . , ' ^'^5 IS a well known Indian 



Michx. FI. Bor. Am ii 32 A sm^' • ° , ^^T," **"««*« 



pofa«,«a .™ J:,i',' iriourn":ti ■ 1 v;r8ioT'' ^^ 



not at all the plant of Linnaus In ™^h f ' .^' """* 

 - must be exact, and - Ts::ms'rmMrattZ:; taT 



™«ngs of Eafines,ue, and ptsuTe'Va" t l^l := 



his error." 



•Bua To„. Club. zx. 277. ^„„.„„, „, jj,,,^^^ ^^^. 



