68 THE NEW ‘INDEX OF PLANT-NAMES.’ 
that I have quite discontinued alluding to our work as ‘ Steudel,’ and 
instead I term it the ‘ Index,’ the precise title not yet having been 
settled. 
modern sense were appended to these genera by Linneus, and we 
bring ourselves into harmony with later usage, by citing Athusa, 
: at 
Centaurea, Prunella, as in the ‘ Species Plantarum. 
e first edition of the ‘Species Plantarum’ was issued in 
interval between the first and second editions, containing m 
species, which were afterwards incorporated in the second editi 
of i it 
ee 
this century had of using only the second, have come to be 
regarded as Linnean. The younger Burman’s ‘ Dissertatio de 
Geraniis’ has nearly forty new species of Geranium, Jacquin’s 
small octavo on West Indian plants nearly three times as many ; 
rouan’s ‘Flora Monsp.’, and Hudson’s ‘Fl. Anglica,’ all came 
out before Linnus’s second edition. Concerning the last, I have 
i i 44, 
from doubt. Cerastium viscosum and C. neglectum have been so 
bandied about in opposite senses, that it is far safer to say 
the plant to which it belongs are firmly united, so that the name 
recals the plant without doubt, then it matters little how the name 
