TYPE OF THE,GENUS PANICUM 63 
some explanatory commentary, or at least a few more specific 
dogmatic or arbitrary decisions; for this would be the only way 
out of the difficulty of contradictory rules unless they be abrogated 
and this is not likely for a while at least. 
In any case, the only reasonable way out of the predicament is 
to restore the name Panicum to the group of plants to which it 
was applied as far back as nearly two thousand years ago. Even 
the intrepretation of the Vienna Code requires this. Sefaria was 
conceived in falsehood, it is itself a homonym and the attempts 
to correct the mistake have so far resulted in at least one other 
synonyme, so that there would seem to be little reason to perpetuate 
a blunder when we can easily correct the mistake, the Vienna Code 
favoring. As the matter now stands the name Panicum rightly 
belongs to the plant group that contains Panicum italicum Linn., 
which is now called /xophorus italicus (Linn.) Nash., Chaetochloa 
italica (Linn.) Scrib., or Setaria italica (Linn.) R. & S. This pro- 
procedure leaves the other genus hitherto called Panicum by the 
authors, without a name, as far as I am able to ascertain, and I 
propose that of Chasea. Following is the synonymy of the 
genera. I shall indicate only a few of the transferred plants 
under the new name. 
PANICUM (Pliny) Linn., 1753. 
Setarta Beauvais, 1812 not Achers., 1798. 
Ixophorus Schlecht., 1861-62, 
Chaetochloa Scribner, 1791. 
Chamaeraphis [R. Br. 1810 (?)] O. Kuntze, 1891. 
-PANICUM ITALICUM Linn. 1753. 
Setaria wtalica (Linn.) R. &. S$. 1897. 
-Ixophorus vtalicus (Lann.) Nash, 1895. 
Chaetochloa italica (Linn.) Serib., 1897. 
Chamaeraphis italica (Linn.) Kuntze, 1891. 
PANICUM VIRIDE Linn, 1762. 
Setarva viridis (Linn.) Beauv., 1812. 
Ixophorus viridis (Linn.) Nash, 1895. 
Chamaeraphts viridis (Linn.) Porter, 1893. 
Chaetochloa viridis (Linn.) Seribn., 1897. 
PANICUM GLAUCUM Linn., 1753. 
. Setarva glauca (Linn.) Beauv. 1812. 
