EHRHART AND THE £ SUPPLEMEXTUM PLANTARUM ’ 
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Notwithstanding Ehrhart’s intimate connexion with the Supple-' 
mentum, it is of course obvious that the names must be cited as of 
Linn, fib, the author of the hook. The names, however, have been 
differently attributed ; thus Smith (FI. Brit. iv. 79 sqq.) cites “Ehrh. 
in Linn. Suppl.” for the Carices, and the Index Kewensis allots two to 
“ Ehrh. ex Linn, fil.” and five to “ Linn, fil.” Smith in citing 
Ehrhart was of course acting on private knowledge ; he had previously 
(in Rees, s.v. Carex; 1808) assigned the names correctly to “ Linn, 
jun. Suppl.” Ehrhart himself in the Phytophylacium appends L. to 
each; this at first sight suggests a difficulty, as the Phytophylacium 
appeared in 1780, while the Supplement inn was not published until 
a year later; but Ehrhart’s intimate association with the book 
enabled him to quote it by anticipation ; it is interesting to note 
that he had no intention of connecting his name with the binominal, 
contenting himself with the citation of his “ nomen.” Moreover, 
when he had occasion to quote the names, he cited them, as we have 
seen, as of “ Linn. Suppl.” ; see JBeiirdye , ii. 87, 82, etc. 
SHOUT NOTES. 
Astragalus erigidus. The authorship of this name has been 
attributed to Bunge (Astrag. i. 25 ; 1888: ii. 28, n. 128; 1889) by Rouy 
and Foucaud, Ascherson and Gfraebner, Hayek, Lindman, and others, 
but should be ascribed to Asa Gray (Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 219; 
1886). It was a new combination for Phaea frigida L. (Europe and 
N. Asia). The fact that Asa Gray circumscribed A. frig-id us so as 
to include an American species now generally regarded as distinct 
( A . americanus M. E. Jones) does not warrant the attribution of the 
name to a later author (Art. 41). Phaea frigida was duly referred 
in Index Kewensis to Astragalus frigid us A. Gray, but the habitat 
of the latter was inadvertently given as North America ; possibly 
this may have misled Rouy and other authors of European floras. 
Reichenbach and Beck (Ic: FI. Germ. xxii. 99, tt. 2201-2; 1903) 
attributed A. frig Hits to A. Gray on the plates, but to DC. Astrag. 
46, n. 2 (large ed.) in the text. The large edition of the Astraga- 
logia appears to be rare. M. Gagnepain, who has kindly consulted 
a copy in the library of the Institut de France, informs me that 
A. frigid us does not appear on the page cited, the name used by 
De Candolle being Phaea frigida, as in the small edition. Appa¬ 
rently the two editions differ in little but the size and numbering, of 
the pages, there being 218 pp. in the large one and 270 in the 
small.—T. A. Sprague. 
A World-code or Nomenclature. Referring to Mr. Sprague’s 
suggestions summarised in our last issue (p. 109), Mr. A. S. Hitch¬ 
cock ( Science , Feb. 16) approves of the proposed compromise, which 
lie suggests “might be accomplished at the next International 
Botanical Congress if the subject has been • sufficiently considered 
previously by the taxonomic botanists of the world.” The Type- 
