172 Alexander Goodman More. [i864 



The discovery of Neotinea intacta in Ireland brought 

 into temporary prominence a rather curious question on 

 the laws of scientific nomenclature. The earlier name of 

 the genus, Tinea, being also the name of a well-known 

 genus of moths, had been changed by Dr. Reichenbach 

 into Neotinea. This seemed right to those who had 

 always thought it improper to give identical names to both 

 zoological and botanical genera ; but as that doctrine 

 had been dropped by most naturalists, Dr. Reichenbach 

 gave the following explanation, perhaps more diplomatic 

 than scientific, of the change he proposed : " I am a 

 decided opponent of the view that the same generic name 

 could not be used in both the animal and vegetable king- 

 dom. Notwithstanding, I made the change, because such 

 generally known names of animals as Tinea, Bombyx, 

 Papilio, Scarabaeus, Bos, Equus, Rhinoceros, Ovis, Homo, 

 &c., cannot be received in botany, where they offend the 

 ear every time they are pronounced." 



To ascertain Neotinea intacta's headquarters in Ireland 

 was a pet botanical problem of Mr. More's, which re- 

 mained unsolved down to 1891, when it was found grow- 

 ing abundantly over quite an extensive part of the Burren 

 limestone. 



For the present summer (1864), however, there was no 

 chance of any further information as to the orchid, which 

 was quite past flowering when he proceeded to Mayo, first 

 to visit his friends at Hollymount, and afterwards (as has 

 been mentioned) to Foxford, for the summer. 



Here the joys of salmon-fishing, a sport to which he 

 was new, allowed botany to claim only a divided alle- 

 giance ; but the shores of Loughs Conn and Cullin enriched 

 his herbarium with several good rarities. Perhaps the 

 best result (botanically) of this exploration was the dis- 

 covery in the latter lake of Potamogeton filiformis, a 

 plant of Watson's " Scottish Type," unknown as yet to 

 the flora of Ireland, as also to that of England. Another 

 rare northern Pondweed, P. prselongus, was found in the 

 same lake, and in a few others near Foxford. A third 

 rather unexpected prize turned up in the Great Burnet 

 (Sanguisorba officinalis), found growing abundantly on 



