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compromises with truth deserve to do. It is to be regretted that, 
even in the ‘Genera Plantarum,’ the learned authors have some- 
times deliberately ignored this principle, as when they place 
Schollera of Roth (1788) as a synonym of Oxycoccus of Persoon 
805);* or suppress Trichosporum D. Don (1822), in favour 
of Aischynanthus Jack. (1823 
should they casually encounter it in their reading, a misprint 
for Alisma. Other restorations are Carew echinata Murr. (1770) 
erica—— 
rostrata Stokes, as Mr. Pryor pointed out (Journ. Bot. 1881, 
. » Inust supersede C. ampullacea Good. (1794). Arenaria 
hirta Wormsk. (FI. Danica, t. 1646 (1819)) rightly replaces 
e than either is 4. 
A. rubella Hook. ; an earlier nam 
sulcata Schlecht. (Mag. Gesellschaft. Nat. Freun 
(1816) ). The Helianthemu equire a good deal of alteration 
H. vulgare Gaertn. (De Fruct. i. 371 (1788) ) and H. canum Duna 
rod. i. 277 (1874)) must yield to H necistus and 
H. marifolium, both published by Miller (Gard. Dict. ed. viii.) 
1768; a iller, too, must stand instead of Persoon, as the 
authority for H. polifolium, published by the latter in 1807. 
Tragopogyon minus Miller (1 ), must ace J’. minor Fries 
(1828). Linaria, again, Miller, not Aiton, should be credited 
* Schollera Oxycoceus Roth. Tent. Fl. Germ. i. 170 (1788): Oxycoccus 
palustris Pers, Syn. i. 419 (1805), The genus, though retained in the ‘ Genera, 
r Vaccinium in the ‘ Student’s Flora.’ 
t We can find no evidence that Salisbury ever ealled the plant ‘‘Calluna 
vulgaris Salisb.” That specific name seems to have been added by Hull (Brit. 
Flora i. 114) in 1808. 
