228 Botanical Writings of Rafinesque. 



Denckea (crinita,) Gentiana crinita, Willd. 



Persea (macrocarpa,)Laurus persea, Linn. 



Heteryta (polemonioides,) Polemonium dubium, Linn. 



Scoria [doubtless misprint iox Hicoria,] (tomentosa, mucronata, 

 alba, pyriformis, globosa, &c.,) the Hickory. 



Vleckia (nepetoides,) the Hyssopus nepetoides, Linn. 



Chryza (borealis,) Helleborus trifolius, Linn. 



Platonia(nudifiora,) Verbena nudiflora, Litm., [misprint for no- 

 diJlo7~a.] 



Tm'pinia (pubescens and glabra,) Rhus aromaticum and sua- 

 veolens, Willd. and Michx. 



Umsema [misprint for Unisema,] (obtusifolia and mucronata,) 

 Pontederia cordata, Linn. 



Macrotrys (actagoides,) Actsearacemosa, Linn. 



Spathyema (foetida,) Dracontium foetidum, Linn. 



Caullinia (hippuroides,) Hippuris Europseus, r. Michx. 



Achroanthes (unifolia,) Malaxis unifolia, Michx. 



Kraunhia (frutescens,) Glycine frutescens, Linn. 



Savia(volubilis,) Glycine monoica, Linn. 



Apios (tuberosus,) Glycine apios, Linn. 



Triadenium (purpurascens,) Hypericum Virginicum, Linn. 



Hingstonia (exaltata,) Siegesbeckia occidentalis, Linn. 



Gonotheca (helianthoides,) Polymnia Tetragonotheca, Linn. 



Trachysperma (natans,) Menyanthes trachysperma, Michx.^^ 



Nearly all the genera of this list, with the exception of those 

 formed from Gentiana, are admitted by botanists, although most- 

 ly under different names.* In the next paragraph, Rafinesque 



* Adlumia, adopted by De CandoUe, is doubtless a good genus. CucularJa had 

 been long anticipated by Borkliausen, under the name of Dielytra or Dicentra. 

 Calistachya, Raf. is of later date than Callistachys of Ventenat; Leptandra, JVutt. 

 is the next in order of publication, but the genus is not considered a good one. Di- 

 arina is adopted with a change in the orthography. Kampmania is typical Zanthox- 

 ylum, that genus having been founded upon the Southern species, as a distinguished 

 botanist has recently informed us. Negundium, or Negundo, was proposed by 

 Moench. Jacksonia, Rafinesque changed in 1819 to Polanisla, probably on account 

 of the Jacksonia of Brown, 1312, by which General Jackson has lost a genus. The 

 genera founded upon Gentiana, are of no account. Persea was founded by Geert- 

 ner. Heteryta is a Phacelia. Hicoria, or Hicorius, was ten years later called Ca- 

 rya by Nuttall. Vleckia is the recent Lophanthus of Bentham. Chrysa is the 

 Coptis of Salisbury. Platonia, (which Rafinesque afterwards changed to Bcrtolo- 

 nia,) = Zapania of Jussieu, &c. = Lippia, Linn. Turpinia forms a good genus or 

 section ; but the name being pre-occupied, the author changed it to LohacUum, and 

 Desvaux to Schmalzia, Unisema may be well distinguished from the other species 



