164 AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST. 
gress rightly condemned, Abutilon avicennae Grotjan, 1759, 
and the most commonly used name until the publication of 
Gray’s Manual, seventh edition, is the correct and older name 
for the plant. 
GROSSULARIA. 
In the new Flora of North America, vol. 22, Part 3, the 
Gooseberries are segregated from the Currants (Ribes, Linn.) 
and the name Grossularia (Tour.) P. Miller,* 1759, is given 
to the segregated genus. Tournefort, however, used the name 
for both the currants and the gooseberries in the same sense 
that Linnaeus used the name Ribes. In 1755, Duhamel: re- 
stored the name Grossularia in the same sense that it was 
used by Tournefort and about four years earlier than Phillip 
Miller used it, so that the name should be attributed to Du- 
hamel by those who follow the rules of the Vienna Code. 
Grossularia, Duhamel, 1755. 
Grossularia, P. Miller, 1759. 
(Ribes, Linn. seg.) 
Priority of Merulius. 
J. A. NIEUWLAND. 
the new North American Flora, vol. 9, p 167, the name 
dig: Adanson, 1763, is proposed as the correct one for the 
genus segregated from the Linnaean aggregate Agaricus, and hav- 
ing as its type Agaricus Chantarellus, Linn. 1753. Boehmer { in 
Ludwig's Definitiones Plantarum restored Hallers name Merulius, 
and it enjoys priority over Adanson's name by three years. 
ERRATUM. 
Page 120, etc., for Jasperite read /aspilite. 
* P. Miller. erii Dictionary 7th. edition, 1759. 
ca: Duhamel du M Traite des Arbres et Arbustes, 1755. 
t Sushil ae De a Generum Plantarum, Lipsiae, 1760, page 492. 
