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l thus. Angraecum cThouars" is to sink in favour of Angorchis , for certain reg. 
"Aeschynan i convineing to the author; but he has missed the faet that the Species 
^ à -- eburneum "whieh illustrated "Thouars's memoir in 1824 was the very same 
of Angraecum e Vincent in 180326) Dr. Kuntze's objections are consequently in. 
- sued - sas Pan de eut from under his feet. Again, he seleets JFdwardia for the 
valid, ris imet dm overlooking Dr. Stokes's DBichea, whieh was two years earlier. 
M a. suia amount of confusion may be best estimated from the few. examples as 
sons whiel 
follows: — 9; : Des?. bec OB "e 
E n AA OA ^arpus Desf, becomes Roeperia S : 
Acalypha L. becomes Ricinocarpus Burm. ; Ricinocar] pera Spreng.; 
4a F. Muell. becomes Justago Kuntze. 
m dama Willd. becomes Hartogia L.; Harlogia L. f. becomes Sehrebera "Thunb, 
z jj Rich. 2*). 
Sehrebera Roxb. becomes Nathusi | iate NP d a ERIS 
Ionidium Vent. becomes Caleeolaria Loefl.; Calceolaria **Juss," becomes F'agelia Schwenk, ; 
? 
ia Neck. becomes Bolusafra Kuntze. | 
ar Tratt. becomes Saussurea Salisb.; Saussurea DC. becomes T'heodorea (8 Cass.) 
. mes Rodriqueziella Kuntze. . 
icr epus que a si M clearance, the author is EVEN to adorn rd pages with 
many graceful dedications to those botanists for whom - ne E specia regard, or 
from whom he has received benefit. "The recipients of such favours may not be very 
ompliment. 
ES rud pne ja many of the old forms of names, Dr. Kuntze has contrived 
some very ingenious prefixes and suffixes: thus, botanists engaged n the study of the 
African flora are distinguished by the addition of -afra to their generie term; for instance, 
Bolusafra, Ernstafra, Schinzafra ; American workers have the addition of amra, such as 
Watsonamra, Brittonamra; Asia is applied as lfoasia, Mazimowasia ; India as Kinginda, 
Ridleyinda. Titles of honour are also pressed into the service, and. we find Aregelia from 
von Regel, Sirhookera and Sirmuellera irom Sir Joseph Hooker and Sir Ferdinand von 
Mueller; a species of Helianthus, which is dedicated to Dr. Urban, has the punning title 
of Urbanisol; and the class of eompilers, those "harmless drudges," have the suffix -ago, 
from the Latin ago, agere, as Justago; Christian names are also combined with surnames, in 
the fashion of Lindley's 4sagraea, thus, Jamesbrittenia, Paulomagnusia; names combined 
with places, as Hallomuellera, Lippomuellera, that is, Mueller of Halle, and Mueller of Lipp- 
stadt; and special work is also alluded to, as Phaenohoffmannia. Nebrownia and Pasaccardoa 
are formed by means of the initials of Mr. N. E. Brown and Prof. P. A. Saeecardo; whilst 
there are others which are simply commemorative, such as Dyerophytum, Hemsleyna, Hoo- 
kerina, and. Nicholsoniella. 
lt is saddening to think that so many years of diligent labour should have been spent 
on work which, if accepted, would plunge,the science into a deeper confusion than that from 
which it was rescued by Linnaeus. Indireetly the volume must do good, as showing the 
reckless extremes to which the *priority-at-any-priee" men will go in pursuit of their whims. 
Changes in nomenclature, if absolutely necessary, ean only be made by monographers, who 
from their study of the entire material, are in a position to speak with authority; thus I may 
instance the rehabilitation of Auble/s genus l'ibouchina, by Prof. Cogniaux, in the Flora 
DBrasiliensis, and in his monograph of the Melastomaceae, instead of the much later one, Ple- 
roma of D. Don, which had come into vogue. "The main lines of nomenclature have long 
since been laid down, and no attempt to transform them in this wholesale manner ean avail: 
reform can only come in staid, sober fashion, as a dose of some drug, which, if given at 
once, would be fatal, may be benefieial if administered gradually. Inattention to this obvious 
truth has obseured the real amount of good work in these volumes, lost in the mass of 
proposed revolutionary changes, whieh Dr. Kuntze will find it diffieult to persuade botanists 
of any nationality to adopt. 
In close relation to the subject in hand, I have within the last few days heard, from 
Prof. C. $. Sargent, the strange doctrine that no name which has ever been used as à Syho- 
nym can again be used as the name of a genus or species, If this extraordinary notion Were 
followed it would place the entire nomenclature of plants at the mercy of any reekless or 
incompeient writer, who might easily reduce, and thus nullily, perhaps the life-work of the 
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: ) Bory, 1803, has neither established nor revised the genus 4ngraecum , 
e added one species more to Angraecii Rumpf, that contains 1 dozen or more 
genera of Orchids. 
: Is Mr. Jackson able to avoid such a ,confusion*? If he would have 
revised these names, he could not hav 
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