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Steud., A. glauciis Steud., A. panijiora, rosea, & taraxacifolia 

 D. Dietr. 



Halesia Iv, a genus of three species inhabiting the south- 

 eastern United States, is now undergoing the miseries of nomen- 

 clatural reform. There was a Halesia Browne, published four 

 years earlier than the one of Linnaeus, and although the earlier 

 one is only a synonym of Guettarda, it is raked out of its grave 

 in order to destroy by the " once a synonj^m always a synonym " 

 process the commonly and long-accepted Halesia of Linnaeus. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, noting the opportunity, in " Garden and 

 Forest " for October 18 inflicts the name " Mohi ia " on a suflFer- 

 ing science, as a substitute for Hiilesia L,. and duly transfers the 

 species. 



Professor Greene, in his Journal "Erythea" of November 3, 

 with his customary liappj' knacK of making every possible 

 blunder, accuses Professor C. S. Sargent of creating the name 

 " Mohria " and proposes " Carlomohria " as a substitute, 

 "vouchsafing" the information that "Mohria" as a spoken 

 name is identical with " Morea," a name already twice 

 employed. 



In the meantime Dr. Britton having discovered that there is 

 a recognized "Mohria" among the genera of ferns, invents a 

 new generic name " Mohrodendron " and in Garden and Forest, 

 November 8, again transfers the species. 



Halesia in this way has been " honored " in three weeks' 

 time with three new generic names and two sets of binomials, 

 which the botanical world will promptly add to the " ever in- 

 creasing store of silent synonyms." 



"Mr. Jackson's great Index continues to progress steadily 

 and with as much rapidity as the nature of the work will allow. 

 It is now printed ofi^ as far as the beginning of E; up to the end 

 of D it occupies 807 quarto pages of three columns each." — Lond. 

 Journal of Botany, March, 1893. 



" Part I of the Index Kewensis, dealing with the nomencla- 

 ture of all known flowering plants, has just been issued in Lon- 

 don. It had been confided that such a work was in progress at 

 the Kew Herbarium, and the promise of its publication excited 



