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Gormannia, Ilarrimannella, Oro.slemma, Eucephalus and liuthamia 

 are rather weak genera. They have also ffolIovviiiK l<'il>insfHi) 

 included Oreobroma in Lewi.sia, which most botanists, including 

 Gray and Watson and Pax, regarded as distinct. 



The nomenclature used in the hook follows closely the sfj-called 

 American Code. The most striking diversions from the generic 

 names used by the followers of said code are the following: 

 Rapuntium Dortmanna (L.) Presl (1768) is used instead of 

 Lobelia Dortmanna L. (1753), when that species evidently is the 

 type of the Linnaean genus Lobelia. Ilierochloe (1810) instead of 

 Savastana (1789); Stellaria (1753) instead of Alsine (1753, page 

 priority): Oxytropis (1802) instead of Aragallus (1790); LIolo- 

 discus (1879) instead of Sericotheca (1838). Of these, it would 

 be desirable if Stellaria and Oxytropis could be conserved, as 

 both Alsine and Aragallus were made up of a mixture of species 

 belonging to dilTerent genera and based on characters now not 

 used in characterizing Stellaria and Oxytropis. To this list 

 should also be added the following: Carara (1792) should replace 

 Coronopus (Garetn. 1791; not Mill. 1754), and Cheirinia should 

 be used instead of Erysimum, as the type of the latter genus is 

 E. officinale L. (= Sisymbrium officinale Scop.). 



There is also found another diversion from the American Code, 

 where the authors have at least in some cases followed the so- 

 called Madison amendments to the Rochester Code and let a 

 specific name be supplanted by an older varietal name. The 

 American botanists, after applying these Madison amendments 

 for a couple of years, saw to what difftculties and incongruities 

 these amendments would lead and abolished them. How many 

 such cases are found in the book I do not know, but there appear 

 two in the list of new combinations, viz., Argentina grandis 

 (T. & G.) Piper instead of Argentina pacifica (Howell) Rydb. 

 and Juncoides majus (Hook.) Piper instead of /. Piperi Coville. 



In those species that really have a common or vernacular 

 name, this name follows the specific one. In other cases where 

 there is none no attempt is made to fabricate a brand new one, 

 which is ver^^ sensible. 



Page 397 contains a list of new species and subspecies described 

 in the book and of new combinations made in the same. 



