IIO AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST. 
or append dates as well as names of authors to whom the family 
names are to be attributed. I have noted, however, that some of 
these authors have been antedated, and I herewith give a partial 
list of such names, mentioning particularly names which conform to 
the general usage; that is those that end in aceae. Should we as- 
sume that names of families be accepted such as Labiatae, Legum- 
inosae, Umbelliferae, Cruciferae which do not end in aceae, possibly 
a larger list might be obtainable. "The best botanists, sanctioned by 
the rules of the Vienna Congress, approve of the aforesaid names. 
Many names of families as now accepted are pre-Linnaean in their 
origin, and forms like Glandiferae Caesalpinus, 1583, for the Oak 
Family, (Fagaceae, Drude 1879); Orchideae Linnaeus, 1751, for 
Orchidaceae, Lindley, 1836, Caryophylleae, Gerard, 176:, Pomiferae, 
Ray, 1682, and C. Bauhin 1623, Bacciferae, Morrison, etc., are as 
old and as acceptable as the names Leguminosae; Umbelliferae, 
Labiatae. It seems, however, to be the self assumed privilege of 
modern botanists to be above all things inconsistent in this 
matter. 
Other systematists have of late discarded the time honored 
names, Leguminosae, Cruciferae, Umbelliferae, Labiatae and substi- 
tuted such of their own names as Fabaceae, Brassicaceae and Lamia- 
eeae. Arundinaceae was used by John Ray, for Gramineae, and it 
conforms to the modern views.  Rofaceae the older name for 
Primulaceae even since 1753, Oleraceae, Nucamentaeeae, and Camp- 
anaceae can not then be reasonably objected,to except that in our 
ignorance of them we have so long overlooked them. Nothing 
short of empirical assumption of lawlessness and inconsistency can 
excuse from the acceptance of such names on the basis of historical 
priorty even since 1753, the so-called ''starting PUB. in our present 
ideas of nomenclature. 
I give herewith a list of family names giving in parentheses as 
synonyms the commonly accepted later ones. 
(1) Campanaceae, Zinn, 1757.* 
Also Campanaceae, Gerard, 1761.7 
(Campanulaceae, Jussieu, 1789.) 
(2) Tiliaceae, Gerard, 1761.3 
( Tiliaceae, Jussieu, 1789.) 
* Zinn, Catalogus Plantarum Horti. Acad. Agri. Góttengensis, 1757. 
+ Gerard, L., Flora Galloprovincialis, 1761. 
