APPENDIX III. 



SYNONYMS. 



There have been nearly three hundred names proposed for phalloids and 

 only about one hundred have been retained in this pamphlet. The other two- 

 thirds are, in our opinion, superfluous. It is an easy matter to propose a 

 new name, but when once proposed it is impossible to ever get rid of it. 

 Writers can refer it to "synonymy" all they please, but the next man that 

 comes along has to dig it up and go all over it again, for no two men ever 

 agree as to all the details, and each man is entitled to his own opinion. 



Many of the following names are the discoveries made by those who 

 discover "new species," which seem to me to have been "new" chiefly to the 

 discoverer. A large part of the synonyms are from changing plants from 

 one genus to another or making new genera out of sections of old genera. 

 Personally we do not maintain many of these innovations, for the old estab- 

 lished genera seem better to us. Of the new genera proposed in tin- la>t 

 twenty years we only maintain Itajahya, Jansia, Phallogaster, Clautriavia, Flocco- 

 mutinus, and Pseudocolus. (The latter we had the assurance to propose our- 

 selves.) Professor Fischer has worked over this same ground and reduced many 

 of these same names to synonymy, and while we agree with him in many in- 

 stances we have copied him in none, for in every case we have looked up the 

 evidence and formed our own opinion. We have not been as free as he in 

 reducing species, for perhaps twenty names recognized as good in this pamphlet 

 Professor Fischer puts in synonymy. While we suspect many of these have 

 little value, we give them, in all instances, the benefit of the doubt. 



There is one class of "new species" exploiters that I have not bothered 

 much with those who propose new species without illustrating them. In 

 a subject such as the phalloids, where a good illustration tells niost of the 

 story, there is no excuse for any one to try to describe a phalloid in words. 

 It ought to be a recognized crime, with a heavy penalty. Such species are 

 listed here as "Nomina nuda." The phalloid fakers who fake up pictures 

 are perhaps worse. The following names are those which in our opinion 

 should be placed in synonymy and the reasons. 



Anthurus australiensis See Lysurus. 



Anthurus borealis See Lysurus. 



Anthurus Clarazianus See Lysurus. 



Anthurus cruciatus See Lysurus. 



Anthurus Sanctae Catherinae See Lysurus. 



Anthurus trifidus Nomen nudum. 



Anthurus Woodii See Lysurus. 



Aporophallus subtilis See Phallus. 



Alboffiella argentina Supposed to be a break. 



Aseroe actinobolus =Aseroe pentad ina. 



' Aseroe Ceylanica See Aseroe Zeylandica. 



Aseroe Calathiscus See Anthurus. 



Aseroe corrugata Xomen nudum. 



Aseroe Junghuhnii =Aseroe Zeylandica. 



Aseroe multiradiata =Aseroe Zeylandica probably. 



Aseroe viridis =Aseroe Hooken. 



Aserophallus cruciatus See Lysurus. 



Rlumenavia rhacodes See Laternea. 



Hlumcnavia usambarensis =Laternea angolensis( ?). 



Calathiscus Sepia See Anthurus Calathiscus. 



Calathiscus Puiggarii Xomen nudum. 



Caromyxa elegans See Mutinus 



Clathrella camerunensis See Clathrus. 



Clathrella crispa See Clathrus. 



Clathrella chrysomycelina See Clathrus. 



Clathrella delicata See Clathrus. 



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