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cent Arkansas. The male flowers of it are still wanting. Nut- 
tall’s Alphera is a section of the genus which is here given as 
“Argithamnia Swartz, Prodr.,” but which near og Argy- 
thamnia of Patrick Browne, a contemporary of Linneeus.* 
order oes is adopted in the older and exendan form, 
including jhe Ulmew, Celtidee, Cannabinee, Moree, Artocarper, 
etc., as tribes. A main ojection i this ice is surmounted by re- 
garding the pistil in all of them as monocarpellary, and the two 
stigmas of Ulmus and the like as “divisi sions ay one or half-stigmas, 
after the analogy of many Kuphorbiacee. Ficus is restored to its 
original sg Seiad ons. 
The ambiguous or anomalous genus Leitneria of Chapman, * 
which eee | is said to be a second species in Texas, s apy as a 
order Leitneriece, which we crave leave to write Leitneria 
he Oupuliferce are made to include a only th see but 
the Betulacew also—which seems to be going too 
Limpetracee and Ceratophyllew are pis! the supplementary 
orders which clos a series. The com mpound pollen-grains of the 
former, after the, Eric caceous type, have not been n 
and some points need to be pondered, before pronouncing an 
v of this name and of its changes is curious and raises a nice point 
in a spatication of the rules of nomencl Patrick Browne founded it in 
n ared 
Rafinesque’s Nemopanthes, razeed from Nemopodanthes, which no botanist has _ 
opan 
attempted to restore to its full proportions. Adanson adopted the genus under 
wne’s name in 1763. So did Swartz in his Prodromus in + 
Argithamnia, however, is the form adopted by Swartz in s Flora, in 1797, 
remarking that Browne derived the first part of the name vetikoe from apybs, 
white, or from apyupeoc, silvery. But if from sl latter, Swartz should have 
written Argyreothamnia, if from the former Argothamnia. 
Acting doubtless on the prin ciple that if the ribo aon phy of a ipa might be 
changed to make it correct, it might be pene ned es to render it quite corre’ 
Sprengel in his turn wrote it Argothamnia, and Mueller of Argan, 47; pyrotiorni 
changes from first to lat “violate the rul aekige rash withou 
ceptions) that botanical names should be retained in their orginal form. At 
improvement is no warrant for alteration. Mistakes may, In 
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not a mistake. Bentham and Hooker have acted upon the —— of preserving 
: gina with Sw rea 
i OW: i ca not u aa ree 
though that could not — the worth of his AL eric If they ina ado fro a 
or from Adan 
Swartz’s Pro: ho re or peli oa ussieu in in 1789, eight years ocese Sw in 
his Flora wrote Argi — we cannot doubt that they woul 
original form, pnd Seth 
