specific names. The reraaining names , except for the Ganarium species, 

 which genus has an uncontestable description in a footnote on p. 10, 

 are invalid as more ^a^^girs-species is assigned to one genus , thus refer- 

 ring in case of each generic name to more than one previously effectively 

 pubiished description or illus tration. 



Thus, generic names and binomials are first validly 



published in 1754 in Stickman's dissertation. 



attempt to check the earliest valid publication of Casuarina and 



its type species, usually ealled Casuarina equisetifolia^ Casuarina has 



variously been aoaigwo d to Linnaeus (1759), Adanson (1763), and the 



Forsters (1775). I had accepted Linnaeus , Amoenitates Academiciae 4:123, 



145, 1759, as the place of publication, basing this on the reference to 



a previously and effectively published plate and description by Rumphius , 

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Herb, Amb. f>\ t,57, 17.gr. Safford, hov/ever, (Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb . 9 : 

 1935) refers to Stickman r s Herb, Amb. 1754, with no further comment. The 

 nomenclature in Safford's work was done by W. F. Wight, whose opinions 

 are to be respected, though he worked under a different Code than that in 



