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the date on the title page, 1836, is not the date of this volume of 
Rafinesque’s work. Macranthera fuchsioides (Nutt.) was yet 
again described by Rafinesque as Russelia flammea based upon 
Bartram’s incidental description of the plant in his Travels as 
Gerardia flammea, and the suggestion made that it is possibly to 
be considered as a new genus Flamaria. 
An earlier genus of Rafinesque’s, Pagesia (1817), reproduced 
in the New Flora, has been attributed by various authors to 
Dasystoma or Gerardia, but certainly does not belong here. Can 
Pagesia leucantha Raf. be identified with Mecardonia acuminata 
(Walt.) Small? 
Finally the genus Dasanthera Raf., under which in the New 
Flora he placed Gerardia cunetfolia Pursh and G. fruticosa Pursh, 
has no close affinity with this group, nor even harmony within 
itself. One species, G. cunetfolia, had been already identified by 
Bentham (1835) as Gratiola acuminata Walt. (cited as Ell.), so by 
synonomy would be Mecardonia acuminata (Walt.) Small; the 
other, G. fruticosa, by the same author in 1835 was considered a 
Pentstemon, in 1846 as his P. Lewisii, a name which Greene (1892) 
has changed to P. fruticosus (Pursh). 
Since 1836 there have been but two new generic names proposed 
for Nearctic species of this group, Otophylla Benth. (1846), and 
Brachygyne (Benth.) Small (1903), both of which are antedated 
by names of Rafinesque’s. The present writer has none to add 
to the sufficient number already published. ; 
A summary of the Nearctic genera of this group, with the type 
species for each, would be: 
AFzELIA J. F. Gmel.; Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13.927. 1791. 
—Anonymos casstoides Walt. 
—Seymeria Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 736. 1814. 
—Anonymos cassioides Walt. 
DasisToMa Raf. Journ. de Phys. 89:99. 1819. 
——Dasistoma aurea Raf. (= Seymerta mac- 
rophylla Nutt.). 
—Brachygyne (Benth.) Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. 1073. 1903. 
—Seymeria macrophylla Nutt. 
MacranTHERA “Torr.’’; Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. I: 
174. 1835. 
