200 PHYTOGRAPHIC EXPRESSIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS. 



Villous Beset with long soft hairlets. 



Vitellus (Yolk) Separately integumented plumule only, or also 



the whole embryo within a separate 

 loose integument. 



Webby Web-like. 



Wing Membranous Expansion. 



Woolly Lanuginous. 



Preliminary references to these organographic alterations occur 

 in a review of a portion of the " Key " by the learned editor of 

 the " Victorian Naturalist," vol. iv., p. 179-180. (February, 1888.) 



With the elder Reichenbach and some others I always held the 

 opinion, that in a " systema naturae " the identical name should 

 not be applied to a botanic as well as to a zoologic genus ; 

 therefore preference was here given among Australian Orchids to 

 the generic appellation Sturmia, instead of Liparis. Whoever 

 may support this proposition will be obliged to adopt, for instance, 

 also Reichenbach's Learosa for Endlicher's Doryphora, the last 

 name being pre-occupied by Illiger for a coleopterous genus as far 

 back as 1807. Where however changes in this respect are 

 required, and not already made, it would be easy enough to 

 substitute a slight alteration to the last syllable or otherwise to 

 modify the generic word, without interfering with the author's 

 right ; and on this principle Zoographers and Phytographers 

 might readily agree. As an instance might be cited the simian 

 genus Aotus of Humboldt, established six years later than the 

 leguminous genus of Smith, and subsequently changed into 

 Anotus. How far up to 1845 zoologic and botanic names already 

 clashed, can be seen on reference to Agassiz's ample " Nomenclator 

 Zoologicus." Some Zoologists and Phytologists (particularly 

 cryptogamic Phytologists) have unfortunately introduced, as very 

 bewildering, the quoting of authors for species in genera which 

 were not even established in the life-time of these naturalists ; 

 or, to be equally regretted, in dealing with generic alterations of 

 species supersede the oldest correct binominal designation, by 

 re-establishing the specific portion of a thus far justly discarded 

 appellation ; so Wolffia Michelii was purposely not called arrhiza, 

 because all Wolffias are rootless, though this one had as Lemna 

 received the name L. arrhiza. At the late evening of my life I 

 may be permitted to remark, that I have never deemed such a 

 treating of nomenclature as conducive to the real advancement 

 of morpho-biology. 



Here it might incidentally be asked, whether Lemna polyrrhiza 

 and L. oligorrhiza, the fruits of which have here remained hitherto 

 undiscovered and perhaps generally undeveloped, could through 

 mineral manuring or any other nourishing processes be forced 

 into ready flowering and perhaps even perfect fruiting states, so 



