810 FLORA FRANCISCANA. 
AmeErRIcAN NOMENCLATURE AGAIN. 
Flora F ec An attempt to classify ee parte the vascular 
of Middle California. By Epwarp L. Greenx. Part I. 
a S¥0, <— San Francisco : Dies ‘ ‘Ob: Markl 80, 1891. 
with some of = transatlantic friends. His method of citing the 
place and date of publication for each species is admirable, and we 
have often caged os adoption of this practice in our British manuals. 
That there are novelties in nomenclature goes without saying. 
eo, 1814), and Drupac ae — and lear Mand « 
independent orders era, we 
‘ Lupinus, Catullus”’ (!), ‘ « Euphoria Pliny,” ** Amygdalus, Theo- 
stus,”’ ‘* Linum, Vergil. ertain genera are split up, such nes 
Spiraea, which is divided into « < Spine @a, Tournefort,” ‘* drun 
Linneus,” “ Basilima, Rafinesque,”’ and “ Schizonotus, Rafine meee 
Would it not have been well to cite place and date of publication 
for genera as well as for species ? 
pecific names have been similarly treated. We find many like 
6 — pratense, Tragus, Stirp. Hist. 586 (1552).” 
= s, Rivinus, Tetrap. 17 (1690).” 
With eon 2 “ the latter work, it may be that Prof. Greene hoa 
access to an edition not recorded by Pritzel, who gives 1691 as the 
date of publication, and this is the date of the British Museum ways 
In this there is only a casual reference to Trifolium at p. 17, 
ere is, ee sererer, an excellent plate eee 
Oo sO 
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ete transferred, followed by the name of him wh 
transferred it: thus, ‘* Disporum Menziesii (Don) Britton” would 
* Journ. Bot. 1888, 295, 
