CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GRAY HERBARIUM OF HARVARD 
UNIVERSITY. — NEW SERIES, No. LVI 
I. FURTHER NEW OR OTHERWISE INTERESTING 
LILIACEAE 
By J. Francis MacsripE 
ScHoENnocavuton Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. iv. 127 (Nov., 1837). 
Sabadilla Brandt in Hayne, Arzn. Gew. xiii. t. 27 (1837), essentially 
in synonymy. Skoinolon Raf. Fl. Tellur. iv. 27 (1838). 
By Dalla Torre & Harms, Gen. Siph., the name “ Sabadilla 
Brandt & Ratzebg.” is maintained for this genus in place of 
Schoenocaulon Gray which, in the estimation of these authors, is a 
later published name. They give for the publication of Sabadilla 
the date “1836 vel 1837 init.” and indeed it seems evident that 
volume thirteen of Hayne’s work came out late in 1836 or early 
in 1837 which probably antedates volume four of the Ann. Lye. 
N. Y. by several months. In the Bot. Zeitung xix, vol. ii. Intelli- 
genzblatt, no. i. 4-5 (1836) we learn regarding Hayne’s publica- 
tion that “nach dem Tode des Verfassers die letzte Halfte des 
12ten und die erste des 13ten Bandes erschienen, die letzte wird 
noch im Laufe des Jahres nachfolgen ” and in Linnaea, Litteratur- 
Bericht for 1837, 224-226, there is a review of volume thirteen. 
This review occurs toward the end of the 1837 volume. But even 
though it is granted that Sabadilla is the earliest name for this 
group of plants it may be questioned seriously, it seems to me, 
whether it was originally given generic status in the sense defined 
by either the American Code or the International Rules. Refer- 
ence to Brandt & Ratzeburg’s paper discloses the fact that they 
do not jointly assume responsibility for the name, since under the 
heading, “‘ Veratrum officinale” occur the words, “‘ Untergattung 
Sabadilla Brandt,” accompanied by an asterisk which refers to this 
footnote, ‘Es schien uns daher besser, fir jetzt ein Subgenus 
unter dem Namen Sabadilla vorzuschlagen um jene auffallenden 
Eigenthumlichkeiten anzudeuten. Die Zukunft wird lehren, ob 
es zur Bedeutung eines Genus erhoben werden kann oder mit einem 
der oben genannten verschmelzen muss. Daher kénnen wir den 
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