164 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
described in the present volume, and only one new species in the 
whole book. In Liliacee he maintains his genus Morgagnia (p. — 
for Simethis ; ~ quotes the i to the name as his Sche 
a ott Cent. (10 May, 1842), p. 6, n. 33, pies at i in 
; the reference to Simethis is Kunth, Enum. Plant. i v. p. 618 
845), ee he mae 1844. Ben ieaisii in Benth. & Hook. 
. Gen. . 784 (1883), sank Bubani’s name for want of 
jue tues chaninday, the agate given being ‘‘ Bubani in 
Nuov. Ann. Se. Nat. Bologna, ix. (1843), 92.” 
Bubani in the place last cited was ak, precise in iden- 
tifying the plant which he intended; he oe ‘** Moreaenia, Nobis 
—M., bicolor, Nob. Bulbine Pei cr r. Syst. Bertol. Fl. cum 
synonymis,”’ etc.; the syno n Bertol. Fl. Ital. iv, p. 187 
is a long description. In the opinion of many ne botanists 
it is not n ecessary, in order to establish a generic name, to su upply 
with it a generic character, provided that a description, — 
directly or by reference, is given of the typical species. On thi 
principle the name Morgagnia can take rank from the date of 
ubani’s paper last cited, which certainly seems earlier than that 
of Kunth’s Enum. Plant. iv. The date of the latter is sometimes 
in error quoted as of the year 1841, perhaps on account of a foot-note 
to page 1, to the effect that the printing of the first Order in it was 
begun in J une, 1841; but on page 664 a citation is given from “* Hook. 
London Journal of Botany, no. 4, Apr. 1842,” and there is plenty 
of internal evidence of a like kind ; also the title- -page bears the 
date of 1848, and moreover there remains Bubani’s statement that 
the volume was een in 1844, Some botanists have rejected 
the name Morgagnia, on the ground that in sound _ J 
resembles that of the ens plaiiasinectiae genus Morgania R. 
(1810); there are, however, instances where s suas < or = bat little 
differing, generic names are —— to stand at the same time, a8 
Boschia, Boscia, Bosia, 
8 in the previous "voluinias;: there are many new names both for 
genera and species given in lieu of others thoroughly well estab- 
lished and properly sanctioned in accordance with generally accepte 
principles ; rh of such tee have been instanced in the 
notices of volumes i. -iii.; one more case may ao enough to mention. 
Daetylis, but he is not satisfied with this identification, and thin 
that another name is wanted. He notes that the English name is 
