840 AMERICAN NOMENCLATURE AGAIN. 
of Engler and Prantl: there are elaborate and careful statistics ; 
and the nomenclature is of — newest kind. It is to this last that 
I propose to devote a little ep 
< Mr. onway Macmillan i ia one oof the most active of the reformers 
of botanical nomenclature, who, like some ~~ reformers, find a 
culty in eons: with each other He was one of the first 
the enrichment of eng a by Taraxacum Taraa n, Ox: wycoccus 
Oxycoccus, and similar names. This plan he con oe « an excellent 
at it will scarcely fail of universal adoption, after a season o 
recalcitrant objection.”* Dis aliter viswn ; the ‘Botanical Club of 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science” has 
decided otherwise; to such an eee Su even Mr. Macmillan, ag 
reluctantly, must needs bow; and Taraxacum Taraxacum wit 
humerous analogues passes into iat limbo which is largely vaopled 
by the ign deg creations of ics mg reformers. With these go 
a lar of galvanised corpses, such as ‘Stellularia Linn. 
(1748) = Staavia este te 58),” « Stellaria Ludw. (1787) = Stellaria 
‘Linn. (1758)”: for the 
of sanity in he mode of tue wih these questions, ree! 1758 
the book is adorned by many startling binomials, ae have been 
sag aga almost before they have “ee the light o 
Mr. an lays down in his cntrodactin ahaa Ws ore or 
‘Tews contradictory propositions. Prof. Greene} has dealt with some 
of a sry one spirit of the candid friend. He shows that Mr. 
@ many laxities”’; 
that his abbreviations of titles are very unsatisfactory; and that his 
Latin phrases have ye “constructed in cold indifference to case- 
endings.”” * Nomina are ve 
rightful names of species ; and ‘‘on the whole the errors in 
nomenclature, of various kinds, are 
not dare to take any thing for granted, as here printed, in the line 
of the bibliographical. ” The question esr arises how far the 
new sumpsimus is preferable to the old m 
. Lam quite prepared to accept Exot. aes s siciateciaill as 
accurate and well deserved, and b o doing to resist the temptation 
to notice = aera s fatrodneHon at length: but I propose to 
ex € In some detail his treatment of one or two names, in order 
that folk’ may an for themselves his qualifications for the post of 
reformer. And as the first n name which attracted my eye by its 
Samy appearance was Cypripedilum, I will take that as my text. 
‘It seems clear for apparent reasons that priority should govern 
in generic names.” Wi th thi i 
* Bull. Torrey Club, 1892, 15, t Erythea, 1893, p- 118, 
