Lacépède (1788:137, Pl. 7) referred to Garden's description in Pennant only as "The Molle" but on a folded paper chart entitled "Table Méthodique des Quadrupèdes ovipares," which is inserted after an introduction of 17 pages, listed _T. mollis_; this name is again listed on another folded chart, entitled "Synopsis methodica Quadrupedum oviparorum," which is inserted between pages 618 and 619 under the genus _Testudo_. The illustration (Pl. 7) was taken from Pennant (Duméril and Bibron, _loc. cit._). The type locality has been designated "(following Stejneger, 1944) as eastern Florida" by Schmidt (1953:108). Bartram failed to use a binomial name with his description of "the great soft shelled tortoise," which appeared in his _Travels_ (1791:177-179, Pl. 4 and unnumbered plate between pages 282 and 283) and two editions of a French translation (1799 and 1801, 1:307); see Harper (1940). Recently, Bartram's _Travels_ has been placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Works in Zoological Nomenclature, Opinion 447 (see Hemming, 1957). Bartram's description of a soft-shelled turtle has provided the basis for the proposal of at least three name-combinations. The first was _Testudo_ (_ferox?_) _verrucosa_ proposed in 1795 by Schoepff; it appeared simultaneously in _The Historia Testudinum_ and in a German translation, _Naturgeschichte der Schildkröten_ (see Mittleman, 1944:245). Stejneger (1944:26) listed the type locality as eastern Florida. Daudin (1801:74), also referring to Bartram's description in his _Voyage_ (French translation), proposed the name _Testudo bartrami_; Harper (_op. cit._:717) restricted the type locality of _T. bartrami_ from "Halfway pond," east Florida, to southwestern Putnam County between Palatka and Gainesville, Florida. Rafinesque (1832:64-65), relying on the authenticity of the illustrations in Bartram's _Travels_ that depict a soft-shelled turtle having five claws on each of the hind feet, tubercles on the sides of the head and neck, and ten scales in the middle of the carapace (presumably inaccuracies or a composite on the part of the artist), referred to Bartram's description as a new genus, _Mesodeca bartrami_, a name which Boulenger (1889:245, footnote) referred to as "mythical." Geoffroy (1809a:18-19) considered Bartram's description the basis for the recognition of a second species of _Chelys_ (binomial nomenclature not employed), and Duméril and Bibron (_loc. cit._) suggested that the description was based partly on a "Chelyde Matamata." The descriptive comments of Bartram are not clearly applicable to _Testudo ferox_ Schneider; _Trionyx ferox_, however, is the only species of soft-shelled turtle known to occur in the region of Bartram's observations (east Florida), and the type locality was restricted to Putnam County, Florida, by Harper. The name-combinations, _Testudo___ (_ferox?_) _verrucosa_ Schoepff, _Testudo bartrami_ Daudin, and _Mesodeca bartrami_ Rafinesque are junior synonyms of _Testudo