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four species, one of which is now a Nelumbium, two being white and 

 the other a yellow Lily, yet Linnaeus put the yellow Lily first in the 

 genus, and when Salisbury separated the two white Lilies from it, he 

 left that which came first on the list to represent the Linnean 

 Nymphaea, and in doing so in this small genus he could scarcely be 

 accused of taking away a great many more species than he left, 

 although the proportion was two to one. Jussieu in 1789 took away 

 Nelumbium. Salisbury removed two species of Castalia in 1805, 

 while the genus Nuphar was not established until 1808. Therefore 

 Salisbury has precedence over Smith. 



So too with the Linnean genus Statice, which Linnaeus wrongly 

 founded on such two distinct genera as the Thrifts and Sea Lavenders. 

 Miller first in 1754 (Gard. Diet. Abr.) and Hill more accurately and 

 completely in the British Herbal of 1756, separated the Sea Lavenders 

 under their Tournefortian name, notwithstanding there were more 

 species of them than of the Thrifts, calling them Limonium, by which 

 name they had been so long and widely known. Mr C. E. Salmon, 

 not many years ago, renamed our British species under Limonium, but 

 quite recently reverses his views (I think owing to a misinterpretation 

 of Art. 45) and now once again calls them Statice. The Thrifts which 

 were separated as Armeria by Willdenow in 1809, had long been 

 associated with the name Statice, while Limonium had been always 

 used to designate the Sea Lavenders. Therefore who shall blame Miller 

 for keeping up the continuity of a name 1 Is not this conservation, 

 although expressed, at least according to the spirit of Art. 45, 

 " when a genus is divided, the name must be kept and given to one of 

 the principal divisions ? " Therefore Statice being the species which 

 came first in the Species Plant arum, and the plant which had been 

 previously associated with the name, was wisely left by Miller to bear it, 

 notwithstanding its numerical inferiority. Moreover, another section 

 of Art. 45 seems to bear out this reading. " If the genus contains a 

 section or some other division, which judging by its name, or its 

 species, is the type or origin of the group, the name is reserved for 

 that part of it." Limonium had not (except in a few instances) been 

 called Statice, and although there was no division made by Linnaeus 

 in his genus, yet practically it fell into two groups, as is shown 

 in his treatment of it in the Genera Plantarum : Statice, the 

 Thrifts ; Limonium, the Sea Lavenders, one species being an 

 Acantholimon, Therefore I contend as I did [Linn. Soc, Journ.) that 



