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Pyrus diversifolia as a synonym of Hooker's /*. riviilaris, Flor. 

 Bor-Am. i, 303. 



Maxitnowicz, of St. Petersburg, who might be supposed to 

 know the date of a Russian work, says in Adn. de Spiraeaceis: 

 "Names [Eriogynia and Lutkea] by Hooker and bj- Bongard 

 published in the same year, the latter perhaps earlier, but 

 Hooker's preferred because the specific name is correctly given." 



Osmaronia Greene for Nuttallia T. & G. " Once a synonym 

 always a synonym." Nuttallia is, however, easily reducible to 

 Prunus. 



Ktmzia, Spreng for Piirshia DC. for the same reason. 



Micrampelis Raf. for Echinocystis T. & G. Rafinesque's 

 names should not be received until his diagnoses are republished. 

 Many of his papers are almost inaccessible, and before submitting 

 to the changes involved in the restoration of his names, the 

 botanical world should have the means of judging whether they 

 deserve to be resurrected or not. Mr. Greene is notoriously 

 partisan, and a strong partisan is never a just judge. 



Osmorrhiza Raf. is reduced to Myrrhis Moris. The former is 

 as good a genus as most of those at present accepted in the fam- 

 ily. Any reduction in their number is, nevertheless, to be 

 welcomed. 



Lil(t:opsts Greene for Crantzia Nutt. " Once a synonym," etc. 



CaprifoHum L,. for Lonicera L. Systema name. 



Obolaria Sieg. for Linncsa Gronov. Before the Linnean date. 



Trichocoronis Wrightii, Gray, a small Eupatoriaceous plant 

 now becoming naturalized in California having been discovered 

 by one of Mr. Greene's pupils, was described by him as a new 

 genus and species Biolettia riparia, Greene, which according to 

 him "has the aspect of a small Erigeron but with fruit charac- 

 ters of the Helenioidese ^ * * suggests at once Eclipta and 

 Spilanthes." Having had his error corrected by the writer* 

 he after the lapse of a year attempts to evade the matter in the 

 following way, which at the least can hardly be encouraging to any 

 one wishing to believe the author's blunders to be inadvertent. 



"Trichocoronis a small group of flaccid riparian herbs, 

 though perhaps best placed here, imitates Erigeron of the next 



* Zoe ii, 301. 



