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rum, and that his first treatment of the genus as an Ornithogalum 
was due to the defective diagnoses and illustrations given by his 
predecessors. The name Ornithogalum hirsutum, therefore, is a 
nomen nudum, and Linnzus should certainly not have been 
obliged to preserve the specific name /érsutwm because he 
changed the generic. His own observation of the dried speci- 
mens, when he finally received these, showed him his mistake 
as to the genus and as to the character “hirsute,” which is only 
too evident from his renewed characterization of the species as 
‘‘pilose.” It is evident, therefore, that . erecta L. should not 
be set aside for H. hersuta (L.) Coville. 
WASHINGTON, D.C. 
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