NOTES ON ‘THE LONDON CATALOGUE, ED. 10 321 
434. As to this, see Journ. Bot. 1904, 308, where “ Hich.” 
should read ‘‘Cech 
“LACHII”’ is in accordance with the Vienna Rules, which 
recommend that t specific names begin with a small letter, except 
those whic d generic 
eadows, near Chester. Should, therefore, Dr. B [oswell] 
think the plant worth a provisional name, I should propose Calli- 
triche Lachii”’ (Bot. Each. Club Report, 1875, 18 
722. Carum PrtroseLinum Benth. & Hook. f. (Benth. & 
i ruce st). 
to Benth. & Hook. f., who publish the combination in Gen. 
890, but C. segetum, ‘which is — attributed in a Cat 
must stand as of Bentham (Handb. Brit. Fl. ed. 4, 193 (1878) ), 
unless an earlier peep to the comisiiatas be ‘forthcoming : 
Bentham and Hooker fil. did not make the combination. The 
unfortunate lactone initiated in the Kew floras and followed in 
the 
already protested against this practice in Proc. Amer. Ac 
277 (1905), = his protest may be cited. Under “ Kanimia nitida 
Bak. in . Fl. Bra. ‘ : “In th 
ex Kewensis, ii. 3 (1895), Hooker f. and Jackson * reduce this 
species to K. ‘erythr oe reditin the latter name to Bentham 
and Hooker f. Gen. ii. 247 (1873). If the combination had been 
correctly made in the Genera Plantarum it would obviously ante- 
date Baker’s binomial and stand according to the rule of egies 
under the genus, but this is not technically the case. 
the plant which they call ‘ Mikania erythralina DC.’ com- 
bination Kanimia erythralina is not made, and indeed thave't is no 
assurance that the authors of the Genera Plantarum regarded the 
Seacaeligy plant as a distinct species or that in naming it under 
a they would have adopted the combination K. erythralina 
All that their statement conveys is the fact that the generic 
do! 
h 
transfer in the Genera slave m should not in this instance be 
regarded as equivalent to the sedi 8 of the new binomial K. ery- 
thralina, for De Candolle’s specific name was erithalina, given 
* As has been —_—, out more than once, the compilation of the Index 
Kewensis was the work of Mr. Jackson, although the volumes were erroneous! 
lettered on the back by the Clarendon Pre ‘Hooker & Jackson 
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