200 AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST. 
three cases being so rare, I have considered them as terato- 
logical. 
The foliage of the plants is quite large in fruit, the single 
leaf in anthesis being about the length of the scape whose 
the whole leaf often six inches in diameter. The relations of 
the various species of Bloodroot proposed by the above-men- 
tioned author can best be understood from the original pub- 
lication.* 
lute priority, the name would, after all, be a homonym for 
Bloodroot. For this reason in 1763, and before 1753-as a 
“starting point” for botanical nomenclature was dreamed of, 
Adanson, gave the genus the name Belharnosia. The name, 
strictly speaking valid for the plant, was not taken up, and 
many do not know that it was given, or why. Bubanit in his 
Flora Pyrenaea restores the Plinian name Sanguinaria to our 
so-called Digitaria, and accepts Adanson’s name for the Blood- 
name Sanguinaria canadensis, content to designate the others 
as varieties. This opinion was held up to a few years ago, and 
the genus was considered as monotypic. 
illenius** seems to quote Morin as responsible for the 
loc. cit. 
t Dillenius, J. Hortus Elthamensis, Vol. 2, p. 21. 
= Bubani, P., Flora Pyrenaea, (1901). Vol. 4. p: 256. 
** The Bloodroots illustrated by Dillenius were of course eastern 
ican specimens and all show the leaves shorter than the flowers in 
