Abstract: The taxonomy of Cortinarius subgen. Phlegmacium sect. Phlegmacium in Europe is emended to include 17 species, classified in three subsections: Subsect. Triumphantes: C. saginus ( = C. subvalidus), C. triumphans (=C. crocolitus). C. varius (here neotypified). C. variiformis ( = C luteocingulatus), C. tiliae sp. nov., C. pini sp. nov. and C. norrlandicus; Subsect. Arguti: C. argutus (here neotypified), C. fraudulosus var. fraudulosus. C. fraudulosus var. rosargutus comb, nov., C. paracephalixus ( = C. rioussctiae) and C. herculeus: Subsect. Vulpini: C. vulpinus ( = C. rufoalbus. C. fluryi). C. pseudontlpimts, C. maculosus, C. caligatus (=C. crustulinus) and C. aremoricus. Species descriptions are provided, with emphasis on formerly little studied micromorphological characters. Most species are well delimitated and normally easily distinguished from closely related taxa. Their diagnostic characters are presented. The circumscription of a number of the species deviates from the one most frequently used, and many taxa are synonymized. Altogether, 18 species names which have been in use after 1900 are reduced to synonyms. The delimitation of the section towards the neighbouring sect. Phlegmacioides (= Variecolores) is discussed, as well as the typification of the name Phlegmacium.

Abstract: Le materiel original de Gomphonema rhombicum M. SCHMIDT, 1904 a pu etre identifie et examine en microscopie optique. L'observation de quelque 210 individus a donne lieu a une diagnose et une illustration photographique de l'espece. Un lectotype est propose parmi les isotypes repartis dans diverses collections.

Abstract: Weissia radians Hedwig is one of twelve names for Australasian mosses published in Hedwig's Species Muscorum Frondosorum in 1801. While ten of the Hedwigian names (in their modern combinations) are used in twentieth-century Australasian floras, Weissia radians has fallen into obscurity. Although no type specimen exists in the Hedwigian herbarium (G), a Joseph Banks collection from New Zealand is present in the Dawson Turner herbarium (BM). I believe the Banks material to be a portion of the original collection and here propose it as the lectotype of W. radians. A combination based upon this basionym, Entosthodon radians (Hedw.) C. Mull., is the most appropriate name for this widespread Australasian species, which recent Australasian workers have misnamed as Funaria glabra Tayl. The type of F. glabra Tayl., collected by James Drummond at Swan River in Western Australia, is referable to Entosthodon muehlenbergii (Turn.) Fife, a species widely distributed worldwide but rare in Australia and New Zeala...

Abstract: Pinus benthamiana HARTW., a taxon coined during mid-nineteenth century exploration of California and currently one of the many synonyms of the polymorphic Pinus ponderosa DOUGLAS ex C.LAWSON, is lectotypified with authentic material (mainly ovuliferous cones) found in a historical carpological collection surviving at the Natural History Museum in Vienna [W]. By reviewing the literature, the synonymy, and other historical particulars pertaining to this taxon, it is suggested that a renewed botanical study in situ and now based on a type could well result in new conclusions concerning the taxonomic status of HARTWEG'S Pinus.

Abstract: For two New Zealand species, the plant names are inappropriate references to the scent of the plant. Both result from misinterpretation of earlier work and are resolved here. Firstly, Banks & Solander originally applied the epithet aromatica to the species now known as Scandia rosifolia not to Anisotome aromatica, but as their manuscript was not published current usage is retained. Secondly, following the Forsters, the type species of Coprosma is correctly designated as C. foetidissima not the inappropriately scented C. lucida; subgeneric and sectional names are corrected.

Abstract: The taxonomy and typification of Ehretia wallichiana Hookf & Thomson and allied species (Boraginaceae, subfamily Ehretioideae) are discussed E wallichiana is lectotypified; the species occurs from Nepal to Assam The identity of Cordia acuminata Wall, is discussed and the name is lectotypified Its type is here treated as Ehretia silvana RR Mill nom nov Three new species E exsoluta RR Mill sp nov, E psilosiphon RR Mill sp nov , and E dolichandra RR Mill sp nov , are described and their affinities discussed A key to all the species of the ‘ E wallichiana complex’, together with contusable species occurring from India to China, is given

Abstract: Complete taxonomic history, lectotypification, and putative generic relationship ofPinckneya are presented. The much debated authorship of Flora boreali-americana and the validity ofW. Bartram's binomials relative to this taxon are discussed. A single species,P. bracteata, is recognized. It occurs in the southeastern USA (South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida). Circumscription of the genus, complete synonymy, and a description of the species are presented. Distribution map, phenological diagram, notes on phenology, and medicinal and economical uses are included. A short discussion on the conservation biology of this diminishing species is included.

Abstract: The typification of Rivca ornata (Roxb.) Choisy (Convolvulaceae), based on Lettsomia ornata Roxb., is discussed. R. ornata is shown to have been frequently (though not consistently) misapplied to a taxon from S India and Sri Lanka which has also been called Convolvulus candicans Roth ex Roem. & Schult., nom. illegit. ; it is here newly described as R. wightiana R.R. Mill. Lettsomia ornata was based on a specimen of a plant introduced to Calcutta Botanic Garden from Uttar Pradesh. This is synonymous with Rivea ornata var. griffithii C.B. Clarke, not Clarke's ‘typical variety’ which Prain formally named var. typica . Lectotypifications are proposed for two species names in Argyreia Lour. Calystegia hederacea Wall., Convolvulus arvensis L. and Dichondra repens J.R. & G. Forst. are recorded from Bhutan for the first time.

Abstract: unaware of Bonpland's paper, republished the species in 1823, based on the same collections, but under Monnina. The epithets were partly those used by Bonpland, partly his own. This paper reviews the resulting nomenclatural chaos. Typification of the names involved is discussed, and lectotypes are designated when appropriate. Six traditionally accepted specific names will change unless conservation, proposed elsewhere, is granted.

Abstract: 83 Wilson, Karen L. (National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia) 1996. Nomenclatural notes on Polygonaceae in Australia. Telopea 7(1): 83-94. Lectotypes are designated for Polygonum dietrichiae, P. elatius, P. hydropiper forma ciliare, P. lanigerum, P. strigosum, Rumex brownii, R. clementii, R. drummondii, R. dU11l0SIlS, R. halophilus, and R. muelleri. Typification is discussed for Rumex acetosella, Polygonu11l strigosul11 var. glabratum, Rumex bidens and R. oxysepalus. Rumex alcockii is here regarded as a synonym of R. brownii. The known history of introduction to Australia of Acetosa vesicaria and its subsequent spread is discussed.

Abstract: A neotype is designated for Volvariella gloiocephala (DC.: Fr.) Boekhout & Enderle, to serve as an representative collection for the current concept of this species, that generally is considered conspecific with V. speciosa (Fr.: Fr.) Kummer.

Abstract: Two of the species discussed below have been mentioned in previous works on Iberian brambles by the present author: Rubus genevieri Boreau, whose presence on the Iberian península could not be confirmed by MONASTERIO-HUELIN (1991), and R. lusitanicus R.P. Murray which MONASTERIOHUELIN & CASTROVIEJO (1993) ventured to compare with R. henriquesii Samp. In both cases, the doubts which aróse were due to the need to make an identification based only on the description of the protologue, as it was impossible to lócate material from the type specimen. After contaets with various herbaria, the author has been able to examine material from the type specimens, allowing reaffirmation or correction of previous suppositions originally thought. A brief commentary and a formal lectotypification of these two Portuguese species is given here and a third, R. muricola Sennen, found in the Catalán Pyrenees, is added.

Abstract: A new combination, Gymnocalycium spegazzinii Britton & Rose subsp. cardenasianum (F. Ritter) Kiesling & Metzing is established. A key to distinguish the subspecies, area and types of both taxa are given. Typification of the subsp. spegazzinii is discused, and its lectotype is designated.

Abstract: One new genus ( Setulocarya R.R. Mill & D.G. Long, belonging to tribe Eritrichieae and allied to Microcaryum I.M. Johnst.: Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, Sikkim) and four new species ( Hackelia bhutanica R.R. Mill and H. obtusifolia R.R. Mill, both from Bhutan and Sikkim, Lasiocaryum ludiowii R.R. Mill from Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet, and Trigonotis clarkei R.R. Mill from Darjeeling) are described. The new combinations Setulocarya diffusa (Brand) R.R. Mill & D.G. Long and Onosma emodi Wall. var. stelligera (I.M. Johnst.) R.R. Mill are made. Tournefortia hookeri C.B. Clarke is lectotypified and the typification of Microula pustulosa (C.B. Clarke) Duthie is clarified.

Abstract: Critical discussions are presented concerning two species complexes within Galium L. (Rubiaceae). the G. acutum Edgew. and G. asperifolium Wall, groups, with special reference to the E Himalayas. In the G. acutum group, two new species, G. megacyttarion R.R. Mill sp. nov. and G. rebae R.R. Mill sp. nov. , are described and G. himalavense Klotzsch & Garcke is reduced to a variety of G. acutum , necessitating a new combination. Within the G. asperifolium group, G. craticulatum R.R. Mill sp. nov. is described, and G. asperifolium and G. sikkimense Gand. regarded as distinct species. The typification of several epithets ( G. blinii Lev., G. bodinieri Lev., G. cavaleriei Lev., G. comari Lev. & Vaniot, and G. esquirolii Lev.), which all antedate G. sikkimense , is discussed. Only G. cavaleriei poses a potential threat but it is here maintained separate from G. sikkimense . Brief notes on G. asperifolium sensu stricto and supposedly allied plants of south India ( G. asperifolium var. pilosissimum Cufod.) are given.