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after E. Pradalt author of a work on Cryptogams of France. The 
Belonium Sacc. has no more reason for existence than the other, 
but there certainly can not be two such names in one branch of 
plants unless the subject of mycological nomenclature is to be 
made or remain a ridiculous matter, deliberately tolerated by men 
of science. . 
CATHARINEA. 
Saceardo’s Catharinea*? is untenable because of the moss 
plant name so called by Ehrhart.s The name Hyalospora is 
apparently suitable and significant particularly in the case of the 
American species. 
Hyalospora Nom. Nov. 
Catharinea Sace., and of the mycologists not Catharinea 
Ehrh. (1787) 1. c. (which is a moss). 
Hyalospora americana Comb. Nov. 
Catharinea hyalospora Ell. & Ev. 
DARLUCA Cast. 
There was a Darluca Raf. (1820)4 that rendered the fungus 
name preoccupied. It seems therefore necessary to replace the 
latter by another in Kabathia. Herman Kabath’ after whom we 
name it, was the author of a work on the flora of Gleiwitz. 
Kabathia Nom. Nov. 
Darluca Cast. (1842) not Darluca Raf. (1820) =Faramea 
of the: Rubiaceae. 
Kabathia interseminata (Wint.) Nov. Com. 
Darluca interseminata Wint. | 
Kabathia Filum (Biv.) Nov. Comb. 
Darluca Filum (Biv.) Cast. 
GAUTIERA Vittadini (1831) 
The name of Gautiera Vittadini,® also written Gautieria is 
but another form of the Linnaean Gaultheria. It is, however, 
t Pradal E., Cat. Plantes Crypt. Loire Infer. 
? Spelled by some Catharinia the name is no better because the spoken 
word is the one that obviously must concern us in question of homonyms 
as it is this that is the source of confusion rather than a written one. 
3 Ehrhart F., Beitrage, 1, p. 190 (1787). 
4 Rafinesque, C. S. Am. Jr. Sc. Phys. VI, 87 (1820). 
5 Kabath H., Flora der Umgegend von Gleiwitz (1846). 
® Vittadini C. Monographia Tuberacearum Med. (1831). 
