MIDLAND NATURALIST. I9 
Cotinus coriaria. This name was first applied to the plant as 
early as 1583 by Dodonaeus. 
Cotinus, Duhamel, 1755. 
Cotinus coriaria, Duhamel, 1755, instead of 
(Cotinus Cotinus,) or 
(Rhus Cotinus, Linn. 1753.) 
27. Diervilla, Duhamel, instead of Moench, 1 
28. The evergreen Padus, called by the older botanists 
Laurocerasus, was segregated by Duhamel, 1755, before it was done 
by Reichenbach. 
29. Duhamel separated the aggregate of the Cherries and 
the Choke-Cherries from the Linnaean Prunus, under the name 
Cerasus. Small separated the Choke-Cherries from the Linnaean 
aggregate Prunus under the name Padus, leaving the Cherries in 
Prunus, and attributed the genus to Borckhausen.* Probably as 
fair a way out of the difficulty, if such there be, would be to accept 
the three separate genera as P. Miller, had done. Cerasus is as 
much entitled to generic standing as Laurocerasus, if not more 
so, the latter being little more than an evergreen Padus. 
Though none have ever confused Prunus and Cerasus by 
calling them all Plums, or all Cherries, Padus and Cerasus have 
together been called and are called Cherries. : 
30. For those mycologists that accept no names prior to 
1753, the name Lycogala, first applied to the plant by Micheli, 
1729,should be attributed to Adanson,1763.j who preceded Persoon, 
and Roemer, in the restoration of the name. 
Lycogala, Adanson, 1763, instead of Persoon, Roemer. 
It may be interesting in this connection to know that the 
herbaceous Cornels, Cornus Canadensis, and Cornus Suecica, 
lately recogaized in the rank of a genus by Rydberg,t under the 
new name Cornella, were first restored to the rank of a genus by 
Hill, 1756, this author protesting at the same time vigorously 
against the method of aggregating genera practised by Linnaeus. 
Hill chooses the oldest of names for the plants, one a agate of 
acceptance under the Linnaean laws of nomenclature.$ Hill 
mame is Chamaepericlymenum. Though Chamaepericlymenum 
Canadense and Chamaepericlymenum Suecicum are not as harsh 
Small, J. K. Flora of the S. E. United States, 1903. 
Adanson, M. Familles des Plantes, (1763) vol. 2. 
Rydberg, P. A. Flora of Colorada, 1906 
Linnaeus, C. Philosophia Botanica, rst Ed. (1751) pp. 197-198. 
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