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note affixed (perhaps n. v., non vidi) in the Kew index of plant names, everyone 
using that future standard book, could examine such species as being very rare 
or doubtful; and botanists, who possess them, will be enabled, either to send 
them to the Kew herbarium or to clear them up. 
Now to the n0menclature of the Kew index of plant names. Mr. Jackson 
gives l c. outlines of the modes of that undertaking. I am very glad to 
read there, that the starting point for genera will be the first edition of Linnaeus' 
Systema, the year 1735 and for species the first edition of Linnaeus! Species 
plantarum 1753. Bentham & Hooker gen. plant. used wrongly an edition of 
Linnaeus! genera plantarum from the year 1767, so that now a great number 
of the names of their adopted genera must be changed by priority. Also that 
was still to be worked in the lists after my last look in the lists, when all synony- 
mous genera had an empty () for adding the year, and the assistants began 
to fill the () with the years of edition out of Pfeiffers Nomenclator. If ever 
the correction of genera-names is intended to be made and if the directors of 
the work does not like to insist upon the names adopted and often preferred 
against priority and justice in Bentham and Hooker's Genera plantarum, about 
3500 synonyms of genera not existing in that book, many of them claiming 
priority, are to be proved critically, as I had to work up for giving correct 
names to my own plants. By my revision I found hundreds of names in Bent- 
ham& Hooker gen. pl. to be changed. As Mr. Jackson advocates strict priority 
he will have to correct that enormous mass of incorrectly used genera-names, 
otherwise the Kew index of plant names would have no scientifieal value. — 
Mr. Jackson wrote l. e. pag. 68: , Where Linnaeus ascribes the genus 
to an earlier author, we say "Tourn. ex Linn.* But that would be a wrong 
kind of author's quotation; for quotations of 2 or more authors ought to be 
arranged in a manner that by usual abbreviation of the too long citations only 
rests the most necessary author's quotation, which indicates for learned botanists as 
short as possible the book to be referred to, the date of the publication and includes 
the responsibility of the publishing author. It would be only correct to quote: 
Linn. ,Tourn.4 In the other way we would get plenty of ante-Linnean author's 
quotations with the tail cut off and no correct citations as often in Durand's 
bad index to Bentham & Hooker gen. pl. 
l. c. pag. 10. Mr. Jackson wrote: ,,Sets of distributed plants are not indexed, 
unless taken up by someone with a diagnosis and are then cited through the 
publishing agent, e. g. *Hochst. ex Rich. fl. abyss." "There are mixed 2 different 
cases of author's quotation: 
1. If Hochstetter published the name in numbered specimens of herbarium 
plants accompanied by printed or autograph tickets bearing the date of the sale 
or distribution (whieh may be substituted by a summary print like Wallich's 
Numerical list of dried specimens of plants) then Hochstetter is to be taken up 
with the date of publieation by the distributed plants, and Riehard's Flora 
abyss. would not be the first publication of such names; cfr. $ 42 of the inter- 
national laws of botanical nomenclature by Paris Congress 1867. It is quite 
the same case as with Wallich's list names, so very much in favour at Kew, from 
whieh 1000 or more would drop down as Nomina nuda, if not legitimated by 
the distribution of the plants. 
2. If Hochstetter has distributed named plants in another manner than sub 
1 and if Richard l.c. had published at first such. names, then it is to be cited: 
*Rich. fl. abyss. ,, Hochst.*' or "Rich. fl. abyss. ex Hochst. msc. according to 
$ 50 of the laws. In that case would *Hochst. ex Rich. flora abyss" be as 
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