Cataloguing the new world: Colenso’s Glossarium Botanicum: Novae Zelandiae

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Figure 1. Samples of Colenso’s handwriting from the Glossarium. A, The word ‘the’ using the letter ‘thorn’; B, the word ‘mass’ showing the long ‘s’; C, a section mark ‘§’; D, the single flowing glyph which Colenso almost invariably used for his initials; E, part of the two entries for Asplenium hookerianum and A. colensoi, showing the anomalous writing, and the correction of ‘colensii’ to ‘colensoi’.

Table 1. Comparison of the species listed in Cunningham’s Precursor with those in Colenso’s Glossarium.

Precursor			Glossarium
Group	Number ranges	Species	Number ranges	Numbered species	Unnumbered species
Seaweeds	1–29, 31–48	47		0
Lichens	49–76	28		0
Mosses	77–97, 100–121	43	319–363	45	0
Liverworts	122–150	29	364–392	29	0
Lycopods	151–159	9	393–401	9	0
Ferns	160–245	86	402–490	89	35
Monocotyledons	246–322	77	491–572	82	3
(Orchids)	309–317	9	554–567	14	3
Gymnosperms	325–332	8	1–9	9	0
Dicotyledons	323–324, 333–639	309	10–318	309	3

The second supplementary file available with this article gives a detailed correspondence between the numbers in both works.

Table A3.1. Concordance between the historic specific names mentioned in the text of this article and the currently accepted equivalents. The second supplementary file available with this paper gives a detailed concordance for all specific names in Colenso’s checklist in the Glossarium and, additionally, for those in the Precursor that were not included in the Glossarium.

Historic name	Current name or status	Authority for current name or status
ANIMALS
Fulica novaezelandiae Colenso (1844)	Poliocephalus rufopectus (G.R.Gray)	Tennyson in Gill et al. (2010)
Patella solandri Colenso (1845b)	Atalacmea fragilis (G.B.Sowerby)	Oliver (1926, p. 582)
Pholas similis Gray	Barnea (Anchomasa) similis (Gray)	Beu & Marshall (1990, p. 346)
Terebratula tayloriana Colenso (1845b) non Lea	probably Neothyris obtusa Thompson
Unio waikarense Colenso (1845b)	Echyridella menziesii (Gray)	Marshall et al. (2014)
PLANTS
Acianthus fornicatus R.Br.	Acianthus sinclairii Hook.f.	FNZO
Adiantum assimile Sw. ('W.C.')	Adiantum aethiopicum L.	FNZO
Adiantum falcatum Colenso inedit. non Sw.	Adiantum sp. indet.; cf. Colenso in St George (2009, p. 147)
Alseuosmia hookeria Colenso (1845b)	Alseuosmia banksii var. linariifolia (A.Cunn.) R.O. Gardner	FNZO
Aspidium cunninghamianum Colenso (1845a) nom. illeg.	Rumohra adiantiformis (G.Forst.) Ching	FNZO
Aspidium cunninghamii Colenso (1843)	Rumohra adiantiformis (G.Forst.) Ching	FNZO
Aspidium pulcherrimum Colenso (1845a)	Polystichum vestitum (G.Forst.) C.Presl	FNZO
Aspidium waikarense Colenso (1845a)	Polystichum vestitum (G.Forst.) C.Presl	FNZO
Asplenium colensoi Colenso (1845a as 'colensii')	Asplenium hookerianum Colenso	FNZO
Asplenium forsterianum Colenso (1845a)	Asplenium polyodon G. Forst.	FNZO
Asplenium hookerianum Colenso (1845a)	still valid	FNZO
Asplenium oblongifolium Colenso (1845a)	still valid	FNZO
Carpodetus serratus J.R. Forst. & G. Forst.	still valid	FNZO
Cheilanthes pellucida Colenso (1845a)	Hypolepis dicksonioides (Endl.) Hook.	FNZO
Coprosma arcuata Colenso (1845b)	Coprosma sp. indet.; possibly a hybrid	Allan (1961, p. 586)
Coprosma crassifolia Colenso (1845b)	still valid	FNZO
Coriaria kingiana Colenso (1844)	still valid	FNZO
Cyrtostylis reniformis R.Br.	Cyrtostylis rotundifolia Hook.f.	FNZO
Dacrydium mai A.Cunn. (1838a)	Prumnopitys taxifolia (D.Don) de Laub	Allan (1961, p. 106) then FNZO
Davallia novae-zelandiae Colenso (1845a)	Leptolepia novae-zelandiae (Colenso) Mett. ex Diels	FNZO
Dracophyllum rosmarinifolium (G. Forst.) R.Br.	still valid	FNZO
Drosera collina Colenso inedit. non Lowrie	a replacement for D. peltata (q.v.)
Drosera peltata Banks & Sol. inedit.	Drosera auriculata Backh. ex Planch.	Hooker (1852, p. 21)
Epilobium nummulariifolium R.Cunn. ex A.Cunn. (1839b, 'nummularifolium')	still valid	FNZO
Epilobium rotundifolium G.Forst.	still valid	FNZO
Fuchsia excorticata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) L.f.	still valid	FNZO
Gleichenia arachnoidea A.Cunn. inedit.	Sticherus cunninghamii (Hew. Ex Hook.) Ching	FNZO
Hymenophyllum atrovirens Colenso (1845a)	Hymenophyllum australe Willd.	FNZO
Hymenophyllum frankliniae Colenso (1843)	still valid	FNZO
Hymenophyllum franklinianum Colenso (1845a) nom. illeg.	Hymenophyllum frankliniae Colenso	FNZO
Hymenophyllum imbricatum Colenso (1845a) non Blume	Hymenophyllum rarum R.Br.	FNZO
Hymenophyllum pulcherrimum Colenso (1845a)	still valid	FNZO
Hymenophyllum revolutum Colenso (1845a)	still valid	FNZO
Hymenophyllum spathulatum Colenso (1845a)	Hymenophyllum bivalve (G.Forst.) Sw.	FNZO
Hymenophyllum villosum Colenso (1845a)	still valid	FNZO
Laurus tarairi A.Cunn. (1838a)	Beilschmiedia tarairi (A.Cunn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kirk	FNZO
Laurus victoriana Colenso (1842) nom. illeg.	Beilschmiedia tawa (A.Cunn.) Benth. et Hook.f. ex Kirk	Wright (1984)
Lindsaea viridis Colenso (1845a)	still valid	FNZO
Lomaria banksii Colenso inedit.	Blechnum blechnoides (Bory) Keyserl.	FNZO
Lomaria crenulata A.Cunn. (attrib. by Colenso) inedit.	an earlier name for L. undulata (q.v.)
Lomaria deflexa Colenso (1845a)	Blechnum vulcanicum (Blume) Kuhn	FNZO
Lomaria deltoides Colenso (1843)	Blechnum vulcanicum (Blume) Kuhn	FNZO
Lomaria gigantea A.Cunn. inedit. non Kaulfuss	probably Blechnum novae-zelandiae T.C.Chambers & P.A.Farrant
Lomaria heterophylla Colenso (1845a)	Blechnum colensoi (Hook.f.) N.A. Wakef.	FNZO
Lomaria latifolia Colenso (1845a)	Blechnum procerum (G.Forst.) Sw.	FNZO
Lomaria linearis Colenso (1843)	Blechnum penna-marina subsp. alpina T.C.Chambers & P.A.Farrant	FNZO
Lomaria nigra Colenso (1843)	Blechnum nigrum (Colenso) Mett.	FNZO
Lomaria polymorpha A.Cunn. inedit.	Blechnum filiforme (A.Cunn.) Ettingsh.	Hooker (1844b) then FNZO
Lomaria rotundifolia Colenso (1843)	Blechnum fluviatile (R.Br.) Lowe ex Salomon	FNZO
Lomaria undulata A.Cunn. inedit.	probably Blechnum minus (R.Br.) Ettingsh.
Melicytus collina Colenso (1845b) nom. illeg.	Melicytus macrophyllus A.Cunn.	Hamlin in St. George (2009, p. 190)
Mida undulata Colenso (1845b, 'Mira')	possibly M. salicifolia var. myrtifolia (A.Cunn.) Allan
Nephrodium pentangularum Colenso (1845a)	Lastreopsis microsora subsp. pentangularis (Colenso) Tindale	FNZO
Notholaena distans R.Br.	Cheilanthes distans (R.Br.) Mett.	FNZO
Pennantia corymbosa J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.	still valid	FNZO
Phormium forsterianum Colenso (1851)	Phormium sp. ex gr. P. cookianum Le Jol.
Polypodium sylvaticum Colenso (1845a)	Polystichum sylvaticum (Colenso) Diels	FNZO
Polypodium viscidum Colenso (1845a) non Roxb.	Hypolepis rufobarbata (Colenso) N.A.Wakef.	Brownsey & Chinnock (1984)
Pteris montana Colenso (1845a)	Histiopteris incisa (Thunb.) J.Sm.	FNZO
Pterostylis collina Colenso inedit.	Pterostylis trullifolia Hook.f.	St. George (2014a)
Ranunculus hirtus Banks & Sol. ex DC non Spreng.	Ranunculus reflexus Garn.-Jones	FNZO
Rhodymenia lusoria Grev. in A.Cunn. (1837, 'Rhodomenia')	Pachymenia lusoria (Grev.) J. Agardh	Guiry & Guiry (2016)
Rhodymenia praelonga Grev. inedit. ('Rhodomenia')	a preliminary manuscript name for R. lusoria
Solanum nigrum L.	still valid	FNZO
Thelymitra grandiflora Colenso inedit. non Fitzgerald	Thelymitra sp. indet
Thelymitra lineata Colenso inedit.	Thelymitra sp. indet
Thelymitra straminea Colenso inedit.	Thelymitra sp. indet
Todea superba Colenso (1845a)	Leptopteris superba (Colenso) C.Presl.	FNZO
Urtica ferox G. Forst.	still valid	FNZO
Xylosma orbiculata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) G.Forst. ('orbiculatum')	still valid	Fosberg (1993, p. 65–66)

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