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purpose, and especially since I find no ground of suspicion 
that any one of those nine falsifications was made inten- 
tionally. The misfortune of their author seems to have been 
the assuming that, since the day in last April when I placed 
in his hands a volume of Necker opened at a certain page,’ he 
has believed himself grown competent to discuss that author 
with safety; whereas I after many years of occasional wrestling 
with his terms and his taxonomy, know that I may stumble. 
No; my opponent has not meant those misstatements nine. He 
has but written his name large on the list of those who 
a rush in where angels fear to tread.” 
Under no consideration can Necker have thought of placing a 
blackberry congeneric with R. odoratus. That was a most vain 
imagination, born of ignorance more dense than mine when I sug- 
gested for Ohamaemorus a place, in Necker, under Dalibarda- 
I had never seen that type growing, nor knew that it is dry- 
fruited; otherwise I should have understood rightly that term 
“nuda” in Necker, which he took up from Linnaeus, as I now 
perceive. But this error of mine, which I rejoice in Mr. Ryd- 
berg’s having been able to correct, would not have been com- 
mitted, even in my ignorance of Dalibarda, had I found Cham- 
aemorus admissible to Necker’s Bossekia, the most essential 
character of which excludes it to a certainty. Bossekia has 
“very many” drupelets, Rubus has from “several to 
rather many,” plures being able to bear all that breadth of 
meaning, but no more; the “plurimi” in the Bossekia diagnosis, 
being absolutely superlative, means it has the greatest number 
occurring in any of these plants; and it is true. 
Chamaemorus often has a fruit of no more than five or six 
drupelets, very large; Rubus of Necker, any small or moderate 
number of them, but perhaps never more than half as many as 
the R. odoratus average. Nor is this all. Even the calyx of 
Rubus and Bossekia has, according to Necker, its own character 
1I had not written, as yet, a word about Bossekia: but the very name 
was that day new to the other party. 
