292 AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 



Lake Maxinkuckee (H. W. Clarke) (Miss Beardsley) (Deam), 

 Lake Co. (Hill) (Deam) Probably? Nos. 3491 Notre Dame 

 (Powers), 2136, 10338, Notre Dame, 9699 Dune Park, Ind. 



LYCHNIS Dioscorides III:ii4, 115. 



Coronaria Linn., Syst. (1735) and Lychnis of the same, also 

 Coronaria and Lychnis Linn., Hort CliflF., p. 174 (1737), Royen 

 Lugd., p. 449 (1740), Lychnis Gesner, Lobelius, Tabernaemontanus, 

 Gararde, Castor Durante, Camerarius, Clusius, Matthioli, Dodo- 

 naeus, Breynius, Lacuna, etc. Lychnis Tour., Els. p. 280 (1694) 

 I. R. H., p. 337 (1700), Lucernula Theodorus. 



Lychnis coronaria Marcellus Vergilius, Com. Diosc, p. 416 

 (1529) also Herm. Barbarus, Cor., p. 50 (1530), Ruellius, Diosc, 

 p. 275 (1546), Ruellius Nat. Stirp., p. 550 (1543) and of nearly 

 all the pre-Linnaean authors. It is one of the earliest and commonly 

 used binary names. Though the type of the ancient genus 'Lychnis 

 it was excluded by Linnaeus from his Lychnis. 



Agrostemma coronaria Linn., Sp. PI., p. 436 (1753), Lychnis 

 Coronaria Desr. in Lam., Encycl. Ill, p. 643 (1789), Coronaria 

 tomentosa A. Br. Fl. XXVI, p. 368 (1843). As the name is a literal 

 translation of the Lychnis stephanomatike Dioscorides Avxvlg 

 CTEfpavidfiaTixri the second part of the name is incorrectly written 

 with a capital letter, as if it were an old reduced pre-Linnaean 

 genus. 



No. 9331 Notre Dame, Ind. 



SAPONARIA Tragus, ex Brunfels, Herb. Viv. Ic, II, p. 

 193 (1530). 



Saponaria Lacuna, Gesner, Dodonaeus, Lobelius, Caesalpinus, 

 Tabernaemontanus, Camerarius, Gerarde, etc. Struthion Fuchs, 

 Lonicer, Thalius, Cusa, Lychnis Sp. Tour., Spergula Sp. Dillenius. 



Saponaria vulgaris Camerarius, Hort. Med., p. 153 (1588). 



Saponaria major Cusa, Dalechamps, J. Bauhin. Saponaria 

 Gypsophyton Linn., and Hesselgr. Pap Suecus, Am. Acad., !II. 

 p. 247 (175 1 ), Saponaria officinalis Linn., Sp. PI., p. 408 (1753). 



Lake Maxinkuckee (H. W. Clarke), Laporte Co. (Deam), 

 No. 10467 Bertrand, Mich., I have found it in every county in 

 the region. 



VACCARIA Dodonaeus, Pempt, 1:4:20, (1583). 



Vaccaria Gesner, Hort. Ger., Cusa, Tabernaemontanus, 



