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60 REVISIO GENERUM PLANTARUM VASCULARIUM. 



It should be noted that u Obolaria borealis OK." is to supersede 

 the lAnnaa borealis of the Master : it seems hardly decent to bring 

 forward Siegesbeck's apparently contemptuous name in place of that 

 which was expressly desired by Linnaeus himself, as emblematic of 

 his own fate, a northern plant, lowly, flowering early, and long 

 neglected, which became his crest when he was ennobled, and is 

 now the badge of the Linnean Society of London. 



Reference has been made to the licence which Dr. Kuntze 

 allows himself in amending names ; this cuts two ways, for he con- 

 ceives himself also bound to abolish all names which come within 



ee of resemblance. One instance is that of Gray's 

 Tetraclea, which is made use of to oust Tetraclis Hiern in favour of 

 Bisaschersonia Kuntze ; but the most striking example is the 

 following : Chlora Adans. is hustled out of existence in favour of 

 Seguiera Manetti (1751) non Seguieria Loefl. (1758) : then Chloris 

 Sw. is allowed to stand, but dispossesses Chloraa Lindl. for Asarca, 

 enlarged, and Chlorea Nyl. becomes Nylanderaria Kuntze. Priority 

 of place is sometimes allowed, as in the case of Aruba for Simaba, on 

 account of its earlier position in the same volume, which was issued 

 complete ; but not allowed in the case of Buda, because of specific 

 names having been applied to Buda first. There is sound sense in 

 this, which, had it prevailed throughout the rest of the work, would 

 have enormously diminished the number of novelties. 



No one need be surprised to find the well-known names of 



Calceolaria, Lobelia, Alliaria, and Limonium applied in unfamiliar 



ways. There are, of course, some alterations which have been 

 made before, such as Hookera for Brodiaa, and Trichosporum for 

 JEschyanthus. Angracum "Thouars" is to sink ha favour of 

 Angorchis, for certain reasons which are convincing to the author ; 

 but he has missed the fact that the species of Angracum ebumeum, 

 which illustrated Thouars's memoir in 1824, was the very same 

 as that of Bory de St. Vincent in 1803 ; Dr. Kuntze's ob- 

 jections are consequently invalid, and the ground is cut from 

 under his feet. Again, he selects Edivardia for the name of Cola 

 acuminata, overlooking Dr. Stokes's Bichea, which was two years 

 earlier. 



The resulting amount of confusion may be best estimated from 

 the few examples as follows : 



, Acalypha L. becomes Ricinocaiyus Burm. ; Bicinocarpu^ Desf. 

 becomes Rcepeiia Spreng. ; Rcepeiia F. Muell. becomes Justago 

 Kuntze. 



Agathosma Willd. becomes Hartogia L. ; Hartogia L. f. becomes 

 Schrebera Thunb. ; Schrebera Roxb. becomes Nathusia Rich. 



lonidinm Vent, becomes Calceolaria Loefl. ; Calceolaria " Juss." 

 becomes Fagelia Schwenk. ; Fagelia Neck, becomes Bohisafra 

 Kuntze. 



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Having thus effected a wholesale clearance, the author is 

 enabled to adorn his pages with many graceful dedications to those 

 botanists for whom he entertains a special regard, or from whom 



