264 AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 
Greeks and Theophrastus, also of Cruciata of Tournefort, 1694. 
All these pre-Linnaean genera, which were also restored and 
recognized since 1753, agree in having dry fruits, some smooth 
others more or less hispid. Galum hispidulum Michx., 1803 
and Galium uniflorum Michx., 1803, among other differences, 
have a decidedly berry-like fruit. 
Wherever in other genera there had been aggregated plants 
with dry and others with fleshy fruit it was not long before such 
a variation was made the basis of generic distinction, and nearly 
if not all such generic segregates have been accepted and have 
stood the test of time and criticism, Examples need aot be quoted 
numerous though they be; in fact even sub-families and families 
have been made with little other distinction than this. 
Galium hispidulum Michx., has been referred to Relbunium 
a Mexican and southwestern genus, which differs in having a 
subfloral envelope of green leaves. Some hesitation as to placing 
the plant in Rubia has been felt; and under these circumstances 
it would seem best to constitute it as the type of a new genus 
. which I propose to call Bataprine. The name comes from the 
Greek fáros, a berry, and arapíve, the ancient name for cleavers. 
The last part of the name was purposely shortened to prevent 
it from falling under the ban of the excellent rule of Linnaean 
nomenclature forbidding the formation of one name from pre- 
viously existing ones,* a rule which is unfortunately little 
regarded by modern nomenclators. 
Bataprine, Nov. gen. 
Perennial hirsute or hispid plants, branching considerably: 
leaves rather thick whorled, one-nerved, mucronate: flowers 
white, few, at the ends of small. branches: pedicels stout 
reflexed in fruit which is a black berry, glabrous or minutely pu- 
bescent: ovules one in each half of the berry. Otherwise as in 
Galium. Plants of the Southeastern coast region of the United 
States. 
... BATAPRINE HISPIDULA (Michx.) Nwd. 
d Galium hispidulum Michx., 1803. ' 
~ BATAPRINE UNIFLORA (Michx.) Nwd. 
(n Galium hispidulum Michx., 1803. - 
Linnaeus, C. V. Philosophia Botanica, 1755, 
