BUBANI’S FLORA PYRENAEA 51 
stand how this study of generic nomenclature alone may have 
cost him at least the half of his forty winters of bibliographic 
work. 
' Some notion will now be given of what it means to take up 
generic names always by the rule of priority; and for this purpose 
we shall not need to turn many more of the Bubanian pages. 
Thus far our comments have been confined to selections from the 
first 70 only of our author’s 2200 pages; and our instances of 
unfamiliar generic names may as well begin with one occurring 
on page 85 of the same Volume I. The name is Stellina displac- 
ing the Callitriche of Linnaeus, which was a name used by Pliny, 
with what plant in view is uncertain; Bubani thinks it was 
Trichomanes, and is certain it was not Callitriche of recent botany. 
The type was first described by Lobelius, who named it Stellaria 
aquatica. There were other types, several of them, named Stedlaria, 
both before Lobelius and after his time; and so Bubani, con- 
strained to propose a tenable name for the genus, tries to comes as 
near as he can to the original Stellaria, Lobel. 
Pages 90 to 116 of the volume are occupied with an elaborate 
treatment of 37 species of Pyrenaean euphorbias, all under the 
name of Tithymalus, of course, as having been the designation 
of these plants during two or three thousand years before Linnaeus, 
and which also is finding its place in other books that are more 
recent than even Bubani. 
The 15 species of the docks and sorrels are of the classic name 
Lapathum rather Rumex, although both names, at least as to 
Latin nomenclature, are of equal antiquity, yet as a Greek generic 
name Lapathon is older. To the sorrels, however, received as the 
really natural genus which they seem to be, the name Ruwmex 
belongs. It was these which the Latins called Rumex. For the 
docks Lapathwm was the accepted name by all botanists before 
Linnaeus, as it has been by many authors since his day; among 
the many Haller, Adanson, Scopoli, Lamarck, Moench, and S&S. F. 
Gray. 
The Amarantaceae are represented in the Pyrenaean flora 
by two genera, by name in the Linnaean onomatology Polyne- 
mum and Amarantus, both of which are suppressed, and an entirely 
new name for each. is proposed; for Polyenemum, Rovillea is 
substituted, for Amarantus, Galliaria. He knows little about 
the vicissitudes of generic nomenclature in times past who is 
