REPORT FOR 1913. 



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SUPPLEMENT TO BOTANICAL EXCHANGE 

 CLUB REPORT FOR 1913, 



BY 



G. CLARIDGE DRUCE, M.A., F.L.S. 



PART I. 

 NOTES ON NOMENCLATURE. 



NOTES ON SOME OF THE TRIVIALS USED IN THE EARLY WORKS 

 OF LINNAEUS. 



The Vienna Actes (Art. 19) say that "Botanical Nomenclature 

 begins with the Species Plantarum of Linnaeus, ed. 1, 1753. It is 

 agreed to associate genera, the names of which appear in this work, 

 with the descriptions given of them in the Genera Plantarum ed. 5, 

 1754 ". 



Art. 48 states "when ... a species is moved into another genus 

 the first specific epithet . . . must be retained. 



The enforcement of this rule necessitates several new combin- 

 tions, as has been recently brought home to me while I was making 

 somewhat extensive researches into the early names of plants for the 

 identifications of specimens in the Morisonian herbaria at Oxford, the 

 account of which is being shortly published by Professor Vines. A 

 complete examination of all the specific names in the two earliest 

 editions of the Species Plantarum has been made, which has shown 

 that the following combinations made necessary by the Actes do not 

 appear to be given in the Index Kewensis or its four Supplements. 

 Doubtless a few of these may have been already made that have 

 escaped the attention of the careful compilers of that monumental 

 work, and still others may have been subsequently formulated. 



In a few cases it is possible that monographers may reject the 

 earliest trivial as being of too doubtful application. It has been, 

 however, felt desirable to bring the results of the investigation 

 together in a single paper, so that attention being directed to them, 

 those which bear the fire of criticism may be adopted, 



