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latest. The first species of the genus, as to its name, stands 
thus: 
Quercus vulgaris (Bibl. Sacr.), Lobel, Ger[arde]. 
Now while the untaught and superficial among botanical 
readers of our time might say: Here are the Sacred Scriptures 
cited for the name Quercus vulgaris, the expression would be wide 
of the truth; for in respect to species as well as genera Bubani 
likes to give an outline of its whole history in literature, and 
in the fuller bibliography next the name he refers to Genesis, 
Ch. 35,, Vv. 8;. then to Isaiah, Ch. 6, v. 13, not neglecting to give 
Allon as the Hebrew name of the tree. The binary Latin name 
he attributes to Lobel (1570), of course writing the Linnaean 
name, Q. Robur, as one of the synonyms, along with QO. pedun- 
culata, Ehrh. etc. 
In the case of the oak next after Q. vulgaris, namely that 
commonly known as Q. sessiliflora, he has the following appel- 
lation: 
Quercus latifolia Plinii! Nat. h. 1. 16. C. 6. vol. 8. 
In the further bibliography some six or seven names for the 
species, all of them of the eighteenth century or the nineteenth; 
all are synonyms with Bubani because he respects the law of 
priority; and also as knowing that with Pliny in the first century 
binary names for trees and plants were in as familiar use as they 
were with Linnaeus in the eighteenth. 
Out of the 9 species of oak inhabiting the Pyrenees, 3 retain 
their Linnaean names as by right of priority, and I subjoin Bubani’s 
own peculiar citations of three: 
Quercus Suber (Theopter., Plin., Plutarch) L. Sp. 
Quercus Ilex (Bibl. Sacr., Homer, Theocr. Theophr., etc) 
LT. Sp. 
Quercus coccifera (Bibl. Sacr., Theophr., Diose., Plin.) 
L. Sp. 
To have presented the names of genera all according to the 
law of priority for so comprehensive a flora as that of the Pyrenees 
was a very large enterprise; and the manner in which Bubani 
acquitted himself of that part of his task renders it easy to under- 
