[Mr. le Baron Ferdinand Müller de Melbourne appelle l'attention de la Société sur ce que la priorité de la dénomination du genre Waldheimia de Karelin et Kirilow, comme donnée déjà en 1842, doit etre conservée à cette plante quoique plus tard dans leurs genera plantarum MM. Bentham et Hooker lui aient alloué le nom d'Allardia, proposé par Mr. Decaisne en 1844.]
[Baron Ferdinand Müller of Melbourne calls the attention of the Society to the fact that the priority of the denomination of the genus Waldheimia of Karelin and Kirilow, as given already in 1842, must be preserved to this plant although later, in their genera plantarum, Messrs. Bentham and Hooker have allotted the name of Allardia proposed by Mr. Decaisne in 1844.1]
Allardia
Waldheimia
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 2. part 1, p. 424 (1873), synonymize Waldheimia, described in Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou, 1842, p. 125 and named to honour Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, a founder of the Moscow society, with Allardia, described by Decaisne in the botanical part of vol. 4 of Jacquemont (1841-44), p. 87. Although vol. 4 is dated 1844, TL2 reports that the work came out in 80 parts and that it has been suggested that pp. 1-88 of the botanical part was published in 1841; see Brummitt (2007), p. 592, for a summary of the arguments.
Letter not found. For the text given here, see Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou, vol. 51 (1876), Séances, pp. 41-2, The letter is dated to September as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been reported to the meeting held on 26 October 1876.
Please cite as “FVM-76-09-00c,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on