BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE 7 
oval, then oblong ; anthode after flowering ovate. Phyllaries with 
many black and few white hairs, light green with darker centre, 
floccose at tip. Heads of flower flat on opening; ligules very full 
yellow ; styles slightly darkened. 
Near var. glaucovirens Dahl., but differing from it in the tall 
erect habit, closer heads with shorter peduncles, oblong very obtuse 
root-leaves, soft light and bright green foliage, and darkened style. 
rom H. sciaphilum Uechtr. it is distinguished by its obtuse 
bldg root-leaves, larger and less numerous stem-leaves, whic 
bear larger triangular teeth, and white-haired peduncles, and b 
the less numerous and less black sete of peduncles and phyllaries. 
Hilly anks, on limestone and sandstone; also on mountain 
rocks. 
Localities.—Herefordshire: Great Doward Hill; bank at Wal- 
ford; Red Daren, Hatterel Hills. West Gloucestershire: Symonds 
Yat. Monmouthshire : Wyndcliff, Mr. W. A. Shoolbred! Brecon- 
shire: Bwlceh-y-fingel, Black Mountain. 
THE ADVANTAGES OF 1787 AS A STARTING-POINT 
OF BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE.* 
By Dr. Orro Kuntze. 
Ar request of the editor of this journal —— tner oe Zentral- 
blatt], I give the following newly proved list of generic names, 
15 Aesculus ae 1735). 
30 Ageratum (Carelia 1786). 
45 Ajuga (Bulga 1785). 
Arctotis ( Anemonospermos 1736). 
1400 Astr ao (T ragacantha 1785) inel. : 
150 Spiesia = Oxytropis gir te to Briquet and Burnat. 
23 Bulbine bupase oe 1786 
21 Carica (Papaya 1 
Carpesium | Congiibidas 1736). 
Cassandra (Hydragonum 1736). 
132 Clitoria (Ternatea 1785). 
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(section, subgenus or discretionary genus); § L. 1737 means 
a oe of Linnzeus.] 
* Translated by the author from the Gaertnerisches Zentralblatt, Berlin, 
1899, No. 2. The article contains a new motive for 1737, and at the last a new 
international proposition not yet known to botanists. 
+ [The date of the first edition of the Systema Nature.—Ep.] 
