240 .AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST. 
if not more so, from our American plants generically, than 
the latter are from Gale Tour., 1703, or what is the same, the 
Myrica, Linn., 1737 and 1753. 
Mr. I. Tidestrom, in his Elysiwm Marianum,* also dis- 
tinguished the two genera by different names. He rejects the 
Gale altogether as not being a Latin name, for the same rea- 
son that Hondbessen and Gansblum of Adanson have been uni- 
versally rejected in spite of their priority. The name, he 
says, comes from the Belgian or low Dutch Gagel as J. Bauhin 
intimates. Mr. Tidestrom gives the European plant the name 
ngeia. Dr. Greene! maintains, however, that Gale is ad- 
missable, as a Latin two-syllabled word, whose origin, more- 
over, is said to be rather from the English Gaule or Gale, say- 
ing too, that as a latinized word it was not objected to for 
etymological reasons during 250 years, and even after Lin- 
naeus’ attempted suppression, the word was restored by sev- 
eral authors, one as late as 1902. 
r. Tidestrom gives to the American bayberries the 
new name Cerothamnus. Dr. Greene* remarks 
cost. - Greene concludes: “As for the real Cerophora and 
its applicability, the first lines: of Rafinesque’s paragraph in- 
dicate his purpose to have been mainly that of being rid of 
Gale, which he says is Dutch, whereas, in truth it is English. 
passing from the consideration of the name Cerophora, 
as a substitute for the Linnaean Myrica, to what particular 
= * Tidestrom, I. Elysium Marianum. Washington, 1910. p. 41. 
_ Greene, E.L. Leaflets of Botanical Observation, Vol. II, 1910, p. 102. 
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- + Rafinesque, C. S. Alsographia Americana, pp. 9-12, (1838). 
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