_ Nomenclatorial Nates on Certain American Plants—II. 
HOMER D. HOUSE. 
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The second edition of Britton & Brown’s Illustrated Flora 
(1913), attributes a number of generic names to Philip 
Miller’s 4th Abridged edition of the Gardner’s Dictionary 
(1754). An examination of the copy of this work in my 
library shows that there are several generic names which 
should likewise be credited to Miller. Among such names, the 
most important, as refering to the flora of the northern and 
eastern United States are the following: 
Abies (Tourn.) Mill. Melo (Tourn.) Mill. 
Alnus (Tourn.) Mill. Tithymalus (Tourn.) Mill. | 
Larix (Tourn.) Mill. Filapendula (Tourn.) Mill. 
Castanea (Tourn.) Mill. Ulmaria (Clus.) Mill. 
Sabina (Bauh.) Mill. Cotinus (L.) Mill. 
Bistorta (Bauh.) Mill. Opuntia (Baugh.) Mill. 
Fagopyrum (Tourn.) Mill. Petasites (Tourn.) Mill. 
Paronychia (Tourn.) Mill. Polygonatum (Bauh.) Mill. 
Quamoclit (Tourn.) Mill. Onagra (Tour.) Mill. 
Of these it might be noted that the first species cited by 
Miller for Onagra, is a non-binomial, pre-Linnaean name 
referable to Oenothera biennis L. Likewise under Eruca 
which Dr. Britton takes up and credits to Miller, the first 
species cited is referable to Brassica Erucastrum L., and not 
to Brassica Eruca L. 
CUNILA (L.) MILLER 
This is based upon “Cunila calycum lacinia superiore latiore 
ovato trinervos,” Linn. Hort. Cliff., which is Sideritis romana 
L., in the Species Plantarum (1753), and is quite a different 
species than the one which is taken by Linnaeus himself for 
the type of Cunila (Syst. Ed. 10, 1359. 1759). This latter is 
Satureia origanoides L.° (1753) ; Cunila mariana L (1759), 
Cunila origanoides Britton. 
Kuntze (Rev. Gen. Pl. 520. 1891) has taken up for this 
genus, the Cunila of Linnaeus (1759), the name Hedyosmus 
Mitchell (Act. Phys. Med. Acad. Nat. Cur. 8: App. 211. 1748), 
hence the name should be cited Hedyosmus (Mitchell) Kuntze 
(1891). The Index Kewensis refers this name to Zizophora 
