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the Sorbaria of Séringe mentioned above, the second the Schizonotus of 
Lindley, published in 1830 in his Zu¢rod. Wat. Syst. Bot., p. 81, and 
(under no. 703) in Wallich’s Catalogue, which appeared about the 
same time. In both places, however, the name is mentioned only as a 
Synonym, and it seems doubtful whether this ought to be considered 
as a real publication of a generic name. The passages in both pub- 
lications read as follows: Wallich, Cat., p. 21, “no. 703. Spiraea 
Lindleyana Wall. Schizonotus Lindl. (gen. nov. Spir. sorbifoliam 
amplectens);” Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. ed. 1, p. 51, “ Rosaceae. 
. The fruit of Spiraea sorbifolia (Schizonotus m.) is capsular.” 
is ths second edition of his work, however, which appeared in 1836, 
Lindley enumerates (p. 145) Schizonotus as a genus, and characterizes 
it (p. 441) by mentioning Spiraea sorbifolia as the type. In the same 
year, Rafinesque published in Mew Flor. V. Am. (3:75-76) the genus 
Basiliina, with descriptions of two species, B. sorbifolia and B. 
Pygmaea. As it seems impossible to ascertain which of the two works 
was really published first, the genus Basilima ought to be preferred, 
since it had specific names attached to it, while Schizonotus had none 
and received none until 1840, when Lindley (Bot. Reg. 26: misc. 71) 
proposed the name Schizonotus tomentosus for Spiraea Lindleyana Wall. 
Those botanists who object to Sorbaria because it was published 
Only as a sectional name must therefore choose between Schizo- 
notus and Basilima. It would be very unfortunate, however, to revive 
the name Schizonotus, since it was applied afterwards and has been in 
use for two other genera, first to a genus with Spiraea discolor Pursh 
as the type by Rafinesque, who entirely misunderstood a note of 
Lindley in Bot. Reg. 16. 1830 in the text to A/. 7365, and says in Mew 
flor. N. Am. 3:75 under Schizonotus “I have adopted this genus and 
name on the suggestion of Lindley, who proposed to unite to it the 
next [Basilima], but the habit is too different.” But Lindley did not 
Say this. He only mentions there on the same page these two species 
of Spiraea, together with some others, and the name Schizonotus. The 
second application of the name Schizonotus was by A. Gray (Proc. 
Amer. Acad. 12:66. 1876) to a genus of Asclepiadaceae, which was 
subsequently changed by E. L. Greene to So/anoa; while on Spiraea 
@iscolor the name Holodiscus was bestowed first by C. Koch, who pro- 
posed it in his Dendrologie (1: 309. 1869) as a subgenus of Spiraea, 
which was afterwards given generic rank by Maximowicz in his excel- 
lent monograph of the Spiraeaceae (Acta Hort. Petr. 6: 253- 1879), 
