Swartz, in his Nova Genera et Species Plantarum, sett Pi'o-
dromus, &c. in 1788. Palissot de Beauvois is mistaken therefore
in asserting (Agrost. p. 3) the priority of Schreber’s significant
name Asprella, given in his edition of the Linnaean
Genera Plantarum in 1789.
We adopt an English name from the Americans.—W. B.
