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Melilotus hamosum, etc. Brotero and Schousboe also made similar 
new ones under the genus Trifolium. 
We have looked in vain for the following names which, by the 
rule of priority of the codes, ought to be the correct ones as trans- 
ferred to the genera now recognized, ‘There is here no question of 
hyphens, or of running together of the two last words of the Linnean 
ternary. A whole word has been changed in form, or altogether 
left out, and this has been done by authors of recent date, despite 
the fact that the laws of priority of their code require the names in 
the following form : 
Asplenium Adiantum nigrum. 
Asplenium Trichomanes dentatum. 
Asplenium Trichomanes ramosum. 
Hemerocallis Lilio Asphodelus. 
Mussaenda fructu frondoso. 
Cystopteris Filix fragilis, or Filix Filix fragilis. 
Salvia africana coerulea. 
Salvia africana lutea. 
Trigonella Melilotus caerulea. 
Trigonella Melilotus corniculata. 
Trigonella Melilotus cretica. 
Melilotus Melilotus indica. 
Melilotus Melilotus italica. 
Melilotus Melilotus officinalis. 
Trigonella Melilotus ornithopodioides. 
Melilotus Melilotus polonica. 
Several such names from which part of the Linnzean trivial was 
omitted by older writers, have since been adopted, though with the 
inserted hyphens. 
Alisma Plantago aquatica. 
Legousia Speculum Veneris. 
Cotyledon Umbilicus Veneris. 
Scandix Pecten Veneris. 
Radicula Nasturtium aquaticum. 
Veronica Anagallis aquatica. 
An unusually interesting case of the falsification of a Linnean 
trivial name is that of Afocynum folits androsaemit Linn., 1753. 
Any one on first seeing the name in this form would hardly think it 
