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Knargea of Banks was 17S8 already with fair correctness defined 

 from Solanders notes by Gaertner (de fructib. I., 283), the 

 etymology being also faultless, though Gaertner, who usually was 

 so accurate, described and figured the embryo as minutely 

 dicotyledoneous, — the whole analytic drawing having passed soon 

 subsequently into Lamarck's Encyclopedic methodique, planche 

 248. But errors in characteristics may be subject to various 

 opinions as regards their extent, while the right of priority will 

 always be absolute. The identical genus, taken in the limitation 

 by Bentham and J. Hooker, was promulgated 1789 as Callixene 

 ■of Commercon by Jussieu (gen. pi. 41), but only 1801 as 

 Luzuriaga by Ruiz and Pavon (flor Peruv. and Chil. III., 65, 

 t. 298); and this explanation of chronology of the genus agrees 

 also with the annotations of De Candolle, Pfeiffer and Jackson. 

 Indeed Schreber already in 1789 (gener. plant. 1., 232), J. F. 

 Gmelin in 1791 (system, natur., edit. XIII., 547), and Willdenow 

 in 1799 (spec, plantar. II., 230) acknowledged fully the claim of 

 the genus Enargea. Only three species are admitted by Bentham 

 .and J. Hooker, which would stand thus as regards their names : 



Enargea marginata, Banks and Solander. 



(Callixene marginata, Commercon ; Callixene magellanica, 

 Raeuschel; Luzuriaga marginata, Bentham ; Callixene parviflora, 

 J. Hooker; Luzuriaga parviflora. Kunth) 



Enargea radicans. 



(Luzuriaga radicans, Ruiz and Pavon). 



Enargea polyphylla, 



(Callixene polyphylla, Hooker ; Luzuriaga erecta, Kunth). 



The other genus, above mentioned as having claims perhaps 

 for restoration is Calcoa of Salisbury (gen. plant, fragm. 67) 

 quoted as a synonym of Geitonoplesium by Bentham and J. 

 Hooker (gen. pi. III., 768) ; Salisbury's treatise under that 

 particular title is not mentioned in any bibliography, to which I 

 have access, and seems to have sunk hitherto into oblivion. 

 (To be continued.) 



An Oological Curiosity. — On the 30th October, in the 

 -neighbourhood of Oakleigh, Mr. J. T. Gillespie took from a 

 prickly acacia a tiny round nest with side entrance, containing 

 three different species of eggs. The nest was that of the little 

 brown acanthiza {A. pusilla) with one of its own eggs together 

 with the brown &gg of the bronze cuckoo {Chalcites plagosus) 

 and the red speckled eg^ of the narrow-billed bronze cuckoo 

 (C basalts). 



