188 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MARCH 
cent? of those very species appear under different names — still the 
names authorized by the Rochester Code. For the benefit of 
those not familiar with these works, but who have an interest in 
seeing the working of the same rule in the hands of one of its 
strong advocates, the fifteen northeastern species which have 
recently appeared under new names are here enumerated : 
Names in Britton and Brown’s 
Illustrated Flora (1896), based upon the 
Rochester Code. 
Onoclea Struthiopteris (L.) Hoffm. 
Dicksonia punctilobula (Michx.) A. 
Gray. 
Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh. 
Jragilis (L.) Bernh. 
- montana (Lam.) Bernh. 
Dryopteris Lonchitis (L.) Kuntze. 
: acrostichoides (Michx.) 
Kuntze. 
Braunii (Spenner) Under- 
wood, 
Phegopteris Dryopteris Robertiana 
Hoffm.) Davenp. 
Scolopendrium Scolopendrium (L.) 
Karst. 
Asplenium acrostichoides Sw. 
Pteris aquilina L. 
Pellaea Stelleri (S. G. Gmel.) Watt. 
Cheilanthes gracilis (Fée) Mett. 
Notholaena nivea dealbata (Pursh) 
Davenp. 
Names in Underwood’s 
Our Native Ferns and their Allies (1900), 
based upon the Rochester Code. 
Matteuccia struthiopteris(L.) Todaro. 
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) 
Bernh. 
Filix bulbifera (L.) Underwood. 
Sragilis (L.) Underwood. 
‘“« montana (Lam.) Underwood. 
abi iocgeaati lonchitis (L.) Roth. 
acrostichoides (Michx.) 
chott. 
Braunii (Spenner) Law- 
son. 
Phegopteris Robertiana (Hoffm.) Un- 
erwood. 
Phyllitis scolopendrium (L.) Newm. 
Asplenium thelypteroides pee 
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) K hn. 
Cryptogramma Stellert ea Prantl. 
Chetlanthes Feet Moore. 
Notholaena dealbata (Pursh) Kunze. 
That the names recently used by Professor Underwood are 
more truly consistent with the strict priority principles than 
many names in other groups listed by Mr. Heller has been 
already emphasized. But why, we would ask, are there so many 
unexplained inconsistencies in this new Catalogue, especially 
when the attention of followers of the Rochester Code has 
° The true ferns alone are here considered, and the genus Botrychium is purposely 
omitted, since that genus has been subdivided by Professor Underwood to such an 
extent that comparative figures would have little definite significance. 

