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he made bold to displace here and there some binary generic name, 

 substituting one of a single word. A few examples of such action 

 on his part were brought forward under the heading of his taxonomy . 

 A more considerable exemplification of this practice is given below, 

 ina selection made from the first volume of the VivcB I cones: 



Early binary generic names 



Fumus terrae 

 Fumaria herba 

 Ferraria major 

 Consolida minor 

 Testiculus canis 

 Testiculus vulpis 

 Lingua bubula 

 Sacra herba 

 Verbenaca supina 

 Cincinnalis herba 

 Lacryma Junonis 

 Herba sanguinalis 

 Sanguis Mercurii 

 Mustelae sanguis 

 Crista gallinacea 

 Trixago minor 

 Quercula minor 

 Scrophularia minor 

 Chelidonium minus 



Herba Apollinaris 

 Faba suilla 



Brunfelsian substitutes 



= Capnos 



= » Sanicula 



= Satirion 

 = Borrago 



= Verbena 



Chamaedrys 



Ficaria 



Hyoscyamus 



The credit of having reformed the nomenclature of genera by the 

 exclusion of names made up of two distinct words has been given to 

 Linnaeus, who, in the year 1751, is thought first to have laid down 

 such a principle.' But the actual reform had been quietly inaug- 

 urated by Brunfels two hundred and twenty years before Linnaeus 

 came forward with his Philosophia Botanica. 1 



Sprengel, the one nineteenth century author of a Genera Planta- 

 rum who has observed the law of priority in the crediting of generic 

 names, ascribes to Brunfels the authorship of the following: 



Ammi Fragaria Pyrola 



Calendula Linaria Sanicula 



- Nomina generica ex duobus vocabulis integris, ac distinctis facta, e 

 Republica Botanica releganda sunt." Linn., Philosophia Botanica, Art. 243. 



