MIDLAND NATURALIST. 49 
May 19 Dickcissel May 27 Crested Flycatcher 
= 21 Myrtle Warbler d 27 Blue Grosbeak 
departed o : 
'" 22 Least Flycatcher 27 Cedarbird 
24 Canadian Warbler '" 28 Wilson Warbler 
24. Lennie Warbler “ 28 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 
25 Alder Flycatcher 
25 White-crowned Spar- 29 Hermit Thrush de- 
row departed departed 
Notes on the Priority of Plant Names. 
Z A. NIEUWLAND. 
In the April number of this periodical * several names of plants 
were found to antedate in publication the year commonly recog- 
nized at the present time. It has since been found that still 
another author published or restored several of these genera at à 
date earlier even than that stated in the preceding number of the 
Midland Naturalist. This botanist is J. G. Zinn, and the work in 
which the plants were published is his ‘“‘ Catalogus Plantarum 
Horti Academici et Agri Gottingensis," printed at Göttingen in the 
year 1757. 
The following are affected : 
1. Taraxacum, Zinn, 1757 (In part), instead of Ludwig- 
Böhmer, 1760.1 
2. Unifolium, Zinn, 1757, instead of Ludwig-Bóhmer, 1760. 
3. Coronopus, Zinn, 1757, instead of Ludwig-Bohmer, 1760.1 
4. Odontites, Zinn, 1757, instead of Ludwig-Bohmer, 1760.1 
5. The name Epipactis was stated by A. A. Faton $ to have 
been first used by Böhmer in Ludwig's 3rd Ed. of the Definitiones 
Plantarum, 1760. 'The name was, however, previously published 
by Zinn, 1757, to designate the aggregate of the Linnaean genus 
Serapias as limited by A. A. Eaton, and Epipactis proper formerly 
sailed Helleborine. Those that follow the rules underlying the 
"theory of residues’’ will probably therefore attribute the name to 
Zinn instead of Bohm men 
* Midland Naturalist, VoL I., No. 1, p. 18. 
t Ludwig, J. efinitiones Plantarum, 1760. 3rd Ed, by Bohmer. 
i -Gray’s Manual, 7th Ed. 1908. 
; $ A. A. Eaton, Proc. Biol. Soc. Pao XXL eam, pp. 65-68, 
also Repertorium Spec. Novar. F. Fedde, Vol. VI, 
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