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Anychiastrum Raldwinii (T. & G.) vSmall 1. c. 



Paronychia Baldwinii (T. & G.) 

 Plagidia riparia (Chapm.) Nwd. 



Anychiastrum riparium (Chapm.) Small, 1. c. (vSmall's type 

 of Anychiastrum). 



Paronychia riparia Chapm. 

 Plagidia montana (Small) Nwd. 



Anychiastrum montanum Small Torreya loi, p. 230, (1910). 



VlTlCELIyA 



Dr. Smair in adopting the name Viticella for the segregated 

 genus with Clematis Viticella Linn, as a type, did not take the 

 valid name whether 1753 be accepted as the "starting point" 

 for nomenclature, or absolute historical priority admitted. The 

 name seems to have been used for that plant as type of a new 

 genus by Dillenius in his treatise. Nova Plantarum Genera p. 165, 

 (17 19). Neither the first' nor the second-' edition of his Hortus 

 Elthamensis have any record of Viticella, most likely because 

 the plant was not found in the Eltham Gardens, and the first 

 publication since 1753 of this Clematis segregate is that of Moench'^ 

 to whom the genus should be attributed by the followers of the 

 American and Vienna Codes. Before Linnaeus Viticella was 

 used by Caesalpinus for Clematis Flammtila Linn., by Matthaeus 

 Sylvaticus for Bryonia alba, and before the time of Dodonaeus 

 for a cucurbitaceous plant by some. The name is not a most 

 desirable one at that in a good system of nomenclature, being a 

 misnomer, and objectionable in the Linnaean as a diminutive 

 form of the existing name Vitex. This Viticella as used since 1753 

 is, moreover, antedated by another V iticella Mitchell^ , (1769) the 

 identity of which has been variously interpreted by a number of 



1 Small, J. K. Fl. S. E. U. S. (1903) p. 437- 



2 Dillen, J. Hort. Eltham. (1732). 



3 Dillen, J. Hort. Eltham. (1774)- 



4 Moench, C. Meth. Plant, p. 296, (1794). 



5 Mitchell, Dr. J. Dissertatio Brevis de Prin. Botan. & ZooL, cum 

 Append, aliquot. Gen. PI. recens cond. and in Virginia Obs. Norimbergae, 

 impensis Wolfgangi Schwarz-Kopfii (1769), 4, 46. p. (See Pritzel ist and 

 2nd editions also Kuntze, O. Rev. Gen. PI. I, p. 519, (1893). The first edition 

 of Mitchell's work came out in Act. Ac. Carol. 8, or Ephem. Norimb. (1748). 

 This was, however, by the author given as follows, "Dabam ex aedibus 

 meis Virginiae 11, 3, (1741). 



