’ THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST gI 
MUSCARI. 
In the Illustrated Flora! Dr. Britton has permitted the name 
Muscaria Haw. for the genus of plants typified by Savxifraga 
muscoides Wulf. in spite of the fact that there is an older Muscart 
Miller? accepted in the same work. Surely if Elodes Adanson 
(1763)3 in the same work renders the Elodes Michx. untenable then 
the Muscaria Haw. seems a perfect analogy. Both differ by exactly 
the same variations and a more exact case can scarcely be imagined. 
Unless one prefers to be dogmatic and arbitrary in matters of 
nomenclature, one can scarcely be looked upon as logical in accept- 
ing a name in one case and discarding another in a perfectly 
similar instance, and for reasons no bit the better or worse. It is 
probably better to look on the instance of the retention of Mus- 
caria Haw. as an oversight that could not have come intentionally 
from a botanist as keen in matters of nomenclature as is the 
author of the Illlstrated Flora. 
That the names are identical is evident from the fact that the 
monocotyledonous plant name was corrected by Salisbury to 
Moschariat which sounds guite the same inspite of its varied 
spelling; for it is the pronounced name that constituted the 
homonym. Though as far as we can find there has been no other 
name suggested for the Saxifraga segregate as a genus caption we 
suggest that of Dactyloides under which it first appeared as a 
section or subgenus. 
DACTYLOIDES (Tausch) Nwd., Nom. Nov. 
Muscaria Haw., Saxifr. Enum., 36 (1821), not Muscari P. 
Miller (1768) 1. c. Triplinervium Sectio Gaudin, Fl. Helv., ITI, 
116 (1828), Dactyloides Section ‘Tausch, ex DC. Prod., IV. 23 (1830). 
Dactyloides muscoides (Wulf). 
Saxifraga muscoides Jacq., Coll. II, 123. Muscaria muscoides 
Raw, lic. 
Dactyloides caespitosa. (Linn.) 
Saxifraga caespitosa (Linn.) Sp. Pl., 404 (1753)., Muscaria 
caespitosa Haw. 1. c. 37. 
TEritcon) Ne ly, Lie Blora i) 222) (rors): 
2 1. c. I, 510 (P. Miller, Gard. Dict:, 8th Ed. (1768). 
Sah Cn Toa, Lily esier.: 
4 Salisbury, R., Gen. Pl. Frag., 25, (1866). 
