Macbride — Reclassified or new Spermatophytes 35 
CorpyLantuus Nutt. A discriminating revision by Roxana 
Stinchfield Ferris of this small but difficult group has recently 
been published in the Bull. Torr. Club, xlv. 399-423 (1918), under 
the name Adenostegia, however, since the work was evidently 
done under the direction of Prof. Abrams and consequently the 
nomenclature accords with the ‘“‘ American ” Code. Nevertheless 
it is a little surprising that apparently Mrs. Ferris has ignored the 
existence of the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature ‘ 
at least such would seem to be the case if one may judge from the 
following statement (1. c. 399). “The proper generic name, ac- 
cording to present-day rules of nomenclature” is Adenostegia 
Benth. This name is carefully shown to have been published ten 
years. before Bentham substituted Nuttall’s manuscript name, 
Cordylanthus. But the name Cordylanthus is included among the 
nomina conservanda of the International Rules and it therefore, 
rather than Adenostegia, is the proper generic term according to 
present-day international rules of nomenclature. The proper 
generic name may indeed be Adenostegia according to a provincial 
code which, however, is not synonymous with “ present-day rules 
of nomenclature.” 
In ordering up the material of this genus in the Gray Herbarium 
it has been necessary, therefore, to make the following changes in 
_ the nomenclature of the group but comparatively few changes 
have been made in the classification itself since on the whole ex- 
cellent judgment has been shown by Mrs. Ferris in the drawing 
of specific lines. But one regrets that the care which she has used 
in determining the taxonomical status of these plants has not been 
applied to what may be referred to as the mechanics of her work. 
The presence of numerous errors of the sort that are generally de- 
tected in proof-reading cause one to question whether indeed 
Proof was seen by the author. An outstanding error of this kind 
18 found in the third and fourth lines of the description of C. Or- 
Cuttianus, 1. c. 418. These lines consist of statements that are 
partly repetition and partly contradiction. Also the spelling of 
One collector’s name in no fewer than three ways on two pages is 
scarcely indicative of the degree of care and exactness one has a 
night to expect in a scientific paper. 
_ _ CorpyLanTuus TENUIS Gray, var. viscidus (Howell), comb. 
Rov. Adenostegia viscida Howell, Fl. N. W. Am. 537 (1901). 
