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The following is the synonymy of the species : — 

 Simethis Kunth, 1843. Enum. Pt. IV., p. 618. 



Syn. : 



Pubilaria Rafinesque. Fl. Tellur. II., 27 (1836). 

 Morgagnia Bubani in Nouv. Ann. Soc. Nat. Bologn. 



IX., 1842-3. 

 Sieboldia Heynh. Norn II., 664 (1846). 

 Anthericum Linn, in parte. 

 Phalangium Toumefort in parte. 

 Bulbine Linn, in parte. 

 Simethis bicolor Kunth, 1843. 



Syn. 



Anthericum planifolium Linn. Mantissce Plantarum. 



Ed. II. (1771). 

 Phalangium planifolium. Pers. syn., Vol. I., p. 367. 

 Bulbine planifolia. Kbm. and Sch. cf. Bertolini. Fl. 



It at. 

 Phalangium bicolor D.C. Fl. Fr. (1805 - 1813). 



Vol. III., p. 209. 

 Anthericum bicolor Desf. Fl. Atlantica (1798-99). 

 Morgagnia bicolor Bubani cf. Parlatore. — Fl. Ital., 



Vol. II., p. 606. 

 Simethis planifolia. Wood's Eng. Bot. Suppl., No. 

 2,952. 

 From the foregoing synonymy it would appear, if the 

 law of strict priority be followed, that Rafinesque's name 

 of Pubilaria has precedence, and the Linnaean specific 

 name of planifolia, 1771, must surely come in vogue 

 instead of Desfontaine's name, given 17 years later. 



Granted, however, that Pubilaria planifolia be correct, 

 we prefer to use the old familiar titles at present, and one 

 cannot help cherishing a hope, however dim, that the 

 present rage of name-revolution so especially rife in 

 America and Germany, but not altogether without its 

 followers in this country, as the last edition of the London 



