no APPENDIX. 



was accompanied by the above proposed binomials, part of 

 one of which Washingtonianum becomes valid under the 

 rules, taking the place of "gigantea," earlier used for the 

 other species. 



The article of the Kochester Code governing the case 

 reads : " Publication of a species consists, 1st, in the dis- 

 tribution of the description of a species named; or, 2d, in the 

 publication of a binomial with reference to a previously- 

 published species as a type." The second clause of this 

 rule covers the reference made by Dr. Winslow, viz.: 

 ' * The name that has been applied to this tree by Professor 

 Lindley is Welling tonia gig antea." 



Also the dedication of a plant to Washington was not in 

 violation of the rule against honoring "merely grand 

 persons, totally unacquainted with natural history," for 

 Washington was both a lover of and a distinguished pro- 

 moter of the natural sciences. 



Professor Sargent, in his Sylva, publishes the Big Tree 

 under the name Sequoia Wellingtonia, given it in 1855, by 

 Professor Seaman, and attempts to justify his overlooking 

 of Winslow by the statement that "Dr. Winslow's name 

 was not accompanied by a technical description and was 

 published in a weekly newspaper." Prof. Joseph LeConte 

 assures me that Dr. Winslow was one of the best-known 

 naturalists of his day, abundantly able as often exhibited 

 to describe objects in the language of science, but upon 

 this occasion, he did what is equivalent, and better, he 

 referred to Professor Lindley 's earlier description and his 

 name, both parts of which name afterward were found to be 

 untenable ; in addition he proposed another name, " Wash- 

 ingtonianum," which was legitimately derived, correctly 

 Latinized to agree with Taxodium, and was published a 



