The American Midland Naturalist 
PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY THE UNIVERSITY 
OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, NDIANA. 
VOL. IV. MAY, 1916. NO. 9. 
CRITICAL NOTES ON NEW AND OLD GENERA OF 
PLANTS.— VIII. 
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The name Libertella and Libertiella are but alternate forms of | 
a diminutive of Libertia. In any logical and serious system of 
plant nomenclature neither diminutive would be tolerated because 
there is a Libertia already. Still our modern works of mycology 
tolerate even these two diminutives for very different plants of 
closely related orders. Libertiella appearing to be the later proposed 
may be supplanted by Shecutza in honor of John Shecut! a botanist 
who wrote a flora of the Carolinas. 
Shecutia Nom. Vov. 
Libertiella Speg. & Roum. not Libertella Desn. 
Shecutia malmedyensis (Speg. and Roum). 
Libertiella malmedyensis Speg. & Roum. 
LIBERTELLA AND LIBERTIELLA 
MAGNUSIA Sacc. 
The Magnusia Sace. was anticipated by Klotsch’s’ plant of 
the same name. The fungus name may be replaced by Kernia 
Kernia Nom. Nov. 
Magnusia Sacc., Syl. 1 
Kernia nitida (Sacc.) Nov. Comb. 
Magnusia nitida Sacc. 
MACROPODIA. 
Otto Kuntze had already pointed out that the Macropodia 
Fuckel (1869) is invalidated by Macropodium R. Br.4 In fact 
* Shecut J., Fl. Caroliniaensis (1806). 
* Klotsch, J. F., Monatsb. Berl. Acad. March 125 (1854). 
3 Kuntze O. Revisio Gen. Pl., I, 852 (1891). 
4 Brown, R. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. II, IV, 108 (1812). 
