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anisatmn Raf. since the number of stamina is constant and generic 

 in this tribe, else the genera Salvia, Rosmarinus, Lycopus, etc., ought 

 not to exist! Hypogon means beard beneath." (p. 148).' 



Another fact brought out by the above description is that 

 Rafinesque's name C. verticillaris antedates Baldwin's C. verti- 

 cillatus.^ Following is the resume of synonyms. 



Hypogon Raf. Fl. Lud. pp. 41 and 148, (181 7). 

 Micheliella Briq. 1. c. (1897). 

 Collinsonia Linn. seg. 



Hypogon vertlcillare (Raf.) Nwd. 



Collinsonia verticillaris Raf. Fl. Lud. p. 41, (181 7) Nomen 

 prius. 



Collinsonia verticillata (Raf.) Baldwin.^ 1. c. (18 18). 



Hypogon verticillatmn Raf. Fl. Lud. p. 148, (18 17). 



Micheliella verticillata (Baldw.) Brifi. 1. c. i. e. Micheliella 

 verticillaris (Raf.) 



Hypogon anisatum (Sims) Raf. F. L. p. 148, (1817). 

 Micheliella anisata (Sims) Briq. 1. c. 

 Collinsonia anisata Sims Bot. Mag. t. 12 13. 



PoLYGAivA Linn. 



The aggregated group of plants called by Linnaeus Polygala 

 contains a mixture of types so dissimilar from one another that 

 such would not be allowed together in other genera of the plant 

 kingdom. Floral distinctions in one family are often over lookeed 

 which elsewhere were sufficient to constitute at least distinctions 

 of generic importance elsewhere. Were the same standard of 

 differentiation used in the Polygalaceae as prevails without objec- 

 tion or though of objection in the Orchidaceae what a difference 

 there would be in the status of this so called genus. It would 

 soon become a very much segregated one. In not a few of our 

 floras and manuals the flowers are scarcely at all described. 



If floral characters are constant characters and of sufficient 

 importance to warrant generic distinctions in one group of plants 

 it would seem illogical to neglect totally such characters in another 

 group. It is on the basis of such notable distinctive floral marks 



1 See also Rafinesqnc, C. S., Neogenyton. p. 2, (1825). Rnfinesque, 

 I-'lorn Ludovic. p. 1.1.8, (1817). 



2 Baldwin c.\ Klliott, Sketch, I., p. 36., (1818), 



