NOMENCLATURE OF ‘LONDON CATALOGUE.’ 1538 
many foreign botanists whose native oe fails to mark the 
strong distinction of the accents in Greek, and these may very 
naturally omit the pean breathing. I ee the safe rule of copying 
the original, and le lame rest upon the originator. Roupala 
“of Aublet has —- aan into Rupala, Rhopala, and Ropala by 
Willdenow, Schreber, and Gmelin respectively. If emendation be 
permitted, I cannot see where the line is to be drawn, and would 
therefore remain on safe ground. Printers’ errors of course are to 
be corrected, and note taken if corrected in the Index or Errata in 
each volume; if the original spelling is repeated, it is confirmatory 
of the author’s views, whilst no one would insist upon a turned 
or dropped letter being copied with Chinese fidelity; expansion 
sometimes must take place, as will be shown hereafter in some o 
Linneus’s names. 
sardous Crantz, should not be printed Sardous, although 
founded o1 on the Ranunculus secundus vel och of Cordu 
35. R. ns var. europeus (ewropea Nyma aes See Dr. Asa 
Gray’s recent remarks on the necessity ‘ed varietal names following 
the gender of the pin 
52. Nymphea alba var. minor Syme (1863).—Antedated by DC. 
Syst. ii. 56 (1821). A case showing - a later writer may fail to 
“hates Pee the work of his predecess 
62. Chelidonium majus var. faiation "(Mill.), — Published as a 
species by Miller, Gard. Dict. ed. 8. 
63. Corydalis bulbosa DC. Fl. Frang. iv. 637 (1805), antedates. 
C. solida Sw. in Sy. Bot. viii. (1819). Nyman’s date of 1821 refers 
to DC. System C. digitata Pers. Syn. 11. (1807) must yield to the 
first n 
65. C. claviculata DC. Fl. Frang. iv. 658 (1805) precedes Pers. 
Syn. e ak = 807). 
a R. Br. — Mr. Roper sar ei poe spelling this 
Mattit, begin that Peas in framing a genus to commemorate 
to WV used that for do not see ore a te s which was 
liedied drawing b Pia ler, Sand now admittedly sunk in 
Guettarda, in | Rubiacea, can ~ brought into the debate on a cruci- 
e 
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vernacular, which has no A in it at all; this he does not do: the 
argument therefore falls. But let us see how it would affect other 
names: the founder of the Linnean Society established a genus to 
‘bear the name of his friend, afterwards Bishop of Carlisle, styling 
it Goodenia, which he afterwards owned might have > been preferably 
know how his coantryman’s name should be spelled, yet he 
deliberately chose to discard the spelling Goodenough. A multitude 
imilar instances might be adduced—Brunonia from oe Own ; 
Gundelia from Gundelsheimer ; Bea, Boea, and Baea from Le Beau; 
Desfontainea, Fontainesi 1a, cas Louichea from Réné Louiche ~— 
fontaines, 
