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ites to ‘réestablish the genus Seeatin “and to compose it of 
all the Hypericums, which have few stamens and an unilocular 
capsule, ... . and to divide the genus Monotropa into two, re- 
establishing the old.genus Hypopythis ; and both shall form a 
separate natural order or tribe, under the name of Monotropeous.” 
Here we have the order or sub-order Monotropee, indicated ten 
years before its publication by Nuttall. In a short list of some 
species to be distinguished from allied ones of Europe, he proposes 
Erythronium angustatum, for the EZ. Dens-canis of early Amer- 
ican authors; T'rientalis borealis, for T. Europa@us, of the same ; 
Lysimachia capitellata, for L. thyrsiflora, Michx. ; and Vibur- 
num edulum for V. opulus, Michx.; in which cases, except per- 
haps the first, he has ticipated other botanists. In other in- 
stances he has made mistakes ; he proposed V. lentagoides for the 
American V. Lentago, forgetting that Linneus established the 
species on an exclusively American plant; and his Asclepias fra- 
grans for the American A. Syriaca is in the same predicament. 
The second part of the essay is occupied with Fungi, and sev- 
eral new genera are proposed ; upon which we have no observa- 
tions to offer. 
Ten new genera are proposed and characterized in the second 
essay, which follows the former. 1. Phyllepidium (squarrosum, ) 
said to be an Amaranthaceous plant, found near Baltimore; we 
do not recognize it.—2. Schultzia (obolarioides, ) said to be “ very 
hear akin to Obolaria,” is undoubtedly the plant itself—3. Bur- 
shia (humilis,) which is Myriophyllum ambiguum. 'The ge- 
hus is dedicated to Pursh, but the orthography is incorrect.—4. 
Diphryllum (bifolium,) is the same as Listera, of Brown, and 
much older; but in a later memoir the author insists that it is 
of ne ei but it is the original species of that genus. Macrotys (here written 
which afterwards Rafinesque changed, without reason, to Botrophis, al- 
though stil adopted by some good botanists, is too near Cimicifuga. Spa thyema= 
Symplo ocarpus, of Salisbury. Achroanthes is long anterior to Nuttall’s Microstylis. 
Kraunhia is also anterior to Wistaria, or Thyrsanthus ; but Rafinesque seems ever 
after to have overlooked the name ; and in the Journal de Physique, he states that 
he had called it Savia, forgetting, probably, that a Savia (posterior to Willde- 
now’s) is the same with Elliott’s Amphicarpea. os forms the third instance, in 
this list, in which Rafinesque has proposed new scart upon the same pl an 
under the same names as Mench had done fourteen years before! Triadenium= 
Elodea of Adanson. Hingstonia=Verbesina, Linn. Gonotheca= Tetragonotheca, 
Linn, Trachysperma=Limnanthemum, Gmel. 1769. 
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