vot. Iv.] Motes from the Gray Herbarium. 379 
facture species which other men have sent them at great expense 
of health, time and money. The hardships of field collectors 
are very great and so far as I know not a single man has made 
anything more out of it than a poor living to say nothing of 
profit, and when such a man names a species after having studied it 
in the field and then sends it on to some authority in the East with 
its name, and in order not to have a rupture with that authority 
lets him publish it for him, it is an outrage to rob the field 
botanist because he did not actually pay for the printing or write 
the words attached to it. If we are to go behind the printing 
as some would have us do and attach not the name of the real 
author of the species but the one who ostensibly published it, 
then another question would arise as to whether the words 
credited to the man who published the species were actually 
written by him or some clerk in his office, in that case the clerk 
should have the honor of the name. But what will be the result 
of such an innovation? Douglas’ species will all be taken from 
him, Nuttall’s are in the same condition, though they are put in 
quotation marks he never published them, but Torrey and Gray 
did. It seems to me that these notions of nomenclature are 
becoming more and more technical and equally unjust and will 
not be accepted by the majority of botanists who want to see 
due credit given to those who have earned it by their labor. We 
are losing the meat of nomenclature in the rubbishof formalism. 
No ex parte rules adopted by a few botanists will ever secure 
uniformity in American botany, nor will any rules stand long 
which ignore the rights of collectors. 
NOTES FROM THE GRAY HERBARIUM. 
BY M. L. FERNALD. 
HABENARIA LUCAICAPENSIS, n. sp. A foot and a half high, 
leafy; principal root tuber-like, an inch long, with numerous 
accessory fibres from the summit: leaves thin, broadly elliptical, 
obtusish, four inches long, half as broad, rather abruptly nar- 
rowed toa sheathing base; the lowest smaller, orbicular; the upper 
reduced to lanceolate acuminate bracts, an inch in length: raceme 
: February 26, 1894. 
