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possible that such appears in the first edition of the Species Plan- 
tarum of Linnzeus. One would hardly look for it except in the 
works of his predecessors, or of his contemporaries unfavorable to 
his methods. ‘That writers of to-day who pretend to make the 
Species Plantarum of 1753 the beginning of priority, should have 
taken up for it the name Afocynum androsaemifolium and attribute 
it in this latter form to Linnzeus, is certainly a case of testing the 
credulity of the botanical public. When, moreover, we actually see 
it in botanical works quoted as Apocynum androsaemifolium I,., Sp. 
Pl., p. 213, 1753, then we must conclude that the manual maker had 
either not seen the original, or was trying to misrepresent facts. 
Such inaccuracy of quotation ought not to come from those who in 
matters nomenclatorial ©‘ strain at a gnat’’ on questions of priority 
to such an extent as to admit duplicate binaries, because the law 
of priority would strictly speaking be otherwise broken. 
The name Afocynum foliis androsaemi shows as well as any that 
Linneeus considered that any two-worded generic name or short 
phrase or term might serve as a trivial name no matter what its 
form. ‘There are quite as many three-worded names in the second 
edition of the Species Plantarum of 1762-1763, as there are in the 
first. If the name Afpocynum androsaemifolium is to be accepted, it 
ought at least not to be referred to the first edition of the Species 
Plantarum, but to the second, where it is found corrected. ‘The 
first publication of the plant, however, being made in 1753, and in. 
the very work from which, according to the codes, it is all important 
to begin all nomenclature, it is an interesting problem for the 
followers of these same codes, which alternative is to be taken up, 
an impossible name with priority to support it, or the only feasible 
name of the second edition not enjoying this prerogative ! 
Somewhat different from the foregoing is the case of the plant 
now called Hemerocallis fava. The Linnean Hemerocallis Lilio 
A sphodelus had in the first edition of the Species Plantarum the two 
varieties, flava and fulva, the former designated as the type. In 
the second edition the ternary name does not appear, and the two 
plants are recognized as separate species under the names Hlemero- 
callis fava and Hemerocallis fulva. Vinneeus, therefore, changed 
the name of the former, a liberty which the codes do not permit 
even him to take, as it constitutes a breach of priority. Though 
Flemerocallis Lilio Asphodelus is the oldest name for one of the 
plants, we look in vain for it in any modern work of botany. 
