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described by him in King's Geol. Explor. Keport, vol. v, 

 p. 128 (1871), and there named Peucedanum graveolens, on the 

 ground that "the prior publication of P. graveolens, Beuth. 

 & Hook. Gen. PI. i, 919 (1867) the Aneihum graveolens, 

 Linn., necessitates a change in the specific name of our 



plant." 



But Bentham & Hooker did not coin the binomial Peuce- 

 danum graveolens, and it is not to be found anywhere on 

 the page cited by Watson, for in transferring part of Touine- 

 fort's genus Anethum, including the A. graveolens of 

 Linn^us, to Carum, they did not diredly re-name any of the 

 species. Dr. Watson's reason for re-naming his plant must, 

 therefore, have been, either that in combining geuera, Ben- 

 tham & Hooker maintained the old specific names, hy impli- 

 caiionj or that they had made any name other than graveolens 

 untenable under Peucedanum, for this particular plant, 

 according to the rule which provides that "in the transfer of 

 a species to a genus other than the one under which it_ was 

 first published, the original specific name is to be retained, 

 unless it is identical with the generic name or with a specific 

 name previously used in the genus." 



The first of these two positions cannot be maintained. 



^c.^.x.c.^ _ did not attempt to name species; had 



theylone so they must of necessity have coined many new 

 names when the old ones were pre-occupied; and to say that 

 they re-named (by implication) only those which did not 

 need changing, is absurd. The second position must give 

 way also, for we have no proof that if they had undertaken 

 to re-name those species of Anethum which they transferred 

 to Peucedanum, they would have adopted the name grave- 

 olens for the plant in question. 



As to who was really the author of the combination, I have 

 not succeeded in finding out; though, lacking any other 

 sponsor, Baillon's Histoire, vol. vii, 97 (1880), or Archangeh s 

 Compend. Flor. Ital. (1882), will provide one.* 



-ij;[;ii:^ graveolens is maintained by Axel Blytt in "Norges Flora,'. 

 p. 885, 1876, and by Carael in Parlatore's Flora Italiana, vui, 294, 1889. 



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