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4. Damasonium stellatum Pers. Syn. ii. 400, has no mention 
to this w ork, yet he would not permit his name to appear on the 
title-page, because of its Linnean order. He cannot therefore be 
cited as the author of any species or genus which is not specially 
associated with his name. 
1488. Potamogeton rufescens 2 gr ck Cham. Adn. ad Kunth, 
Fl. Berol. 5 (1815). — ‘* Nyman Syme por an earlier name, 
P, alpinus Balb. [Misc. Bot. 1. 3, 1804.” — 
P. coriaceus Nolte will of course be inserted in his next edition ; ; 
see Journ. Bot. xxiv. (1886), 223. 
Eleocharis a Br. Prod. 224 ee Heleocharis Lestib. Ess. Cyp. 
41 (1819). own, in founding the genus, forgot to render the 
rough Sushi of the ater but that was ee by Lestiboudois . 
nine years later. Unti mparatively recent times it was con- 
sidered a proper course % correct or alsat, under the guise of 
few drawbacks in application, is to use the name as originally 
spelled, and to that form, add the plants described oper trifling 
variations of generic names. The comfort of this method will be 
chiefly felt when generic names of uncertain, coniignaaanentik) or 
barbarous origin are in question. HRoupala Aublet and Argythamnia 
wne are instances of these cases. 
1524. Eleocharis uniglumis Re ichb. — First published as Scirpus 
uniglumis Link in Jahrb. Gew. i. (8) 77 (1820). Heleocharis uni- 
glumis a Fl. Exe. 77 (1832 
1528. Scirpus pure Roem. et Sch. ro ii. 124 (1817).— An 
earlier ela is S. + Pug. i. 4 (1818). A previous S. 
nanus Poit. ae aalegs vi. "759 ( (1804) is now sunk m Fimbristylis 
ger ¥: 
580. S. Savii Seb. & Maur. Fl. Rom. Prod. 22 (1818) is ante- 
dated by S. numidianus Vahl, Enum. ii. 254 (1806). The latter 
name is an unlucky one for a plant which is widely distributed over 
e globe. I have to thank Mr. C. B. Clarke for calling my 
attention to this and the previous case. 
1535. Scirpus carinatus Sm. Comp. 10. — Erroneously ascribed 
to Linnezus. 
8. maritimus var. compactus Koch, Syn. ed. 2, 858 (1843), 
with a reference to Krocker, Fi. Siles. i. t. 15 (1787), which, how- 
ever, such name, the p ate vedere rea legend only :— 
m. ottrrto varietas maine It was treated as a species by 
Ho: =. Deutschl. Fl. ed. 2, i. 25 (1800). 
rufus Schrad. Fl. Germ. i. 183 (1806), is earlier than 
Wahlen, FL. Lapp. 15 (1812). 
Eriophorum angus tifolium Roth. — “Var. b. elatius Koch 
[Syn a 1, 745 (1887)], longifolium Hoppe [Dee. Gram. 1, n. 9 
(1815)] ice to be an earlier name for this variety, as does var. 
alpinum Gaud. [Fl. Helv. i. 181 (1828)] for the var. minus Koch 
[op. cit. 746] .”—Mr. 
