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refers to it some simple-leaved species of Ruhus of Linnaeus, 

 but he does not refer to any special work of Linnaeus. Dr. 

 Greene claims that it was to Species Plantarum, but this is very 

 unlikely. Wherever Necker refers to any work of "Linnaeus," 

 the reference is to the 14th edition of the Systema, which was 

 published six years before Necker's Elementa. This was not a 

 work of Linnaeus, but of Murray. There is in Necker's Elementa 

 under Bossekia no "reference to a specific description, which is 

 associable by citation with a previously published binomial species." 

 Hence Bossekia is not properly published according to the Amer- 

 ican Code. 



Dr. Greene in defending Bossekia and attacking Ruhacer 

 published four pages of sarcastic criticism. Immediately I wrote 

 an article quite as sarcastic in answer, but decided that it was 

 not worth while to publish it, as Dr. Greene's article was an 

 example of either insincerity or hasty carelessness. As example 

 may only be given, Dr. Greene in two places claimed that Ruhacer 

 meant red maple. A linguist like Dr. Greene knows that the 

 final r in ruber, red, is a part of the stem of the word and if red 

 maple was meant the word should have been Rubracer and not 

 Ruhacer. Neither did I intend with the name Ruhacer maple- 

 leaved raspberry, but raspberry maple, which is just as good. 



Dr. Greene devotes almost a page to Ruhus moluccanus, with 

 eight mostly silly questions.* There is no need to answer them in 

 full. Anyone who has access to Rumphius can see from the figure 

 that his Ruhus moluccanus and his Ruhus moluccanus parvifolius 

 are not drawn from stages of the same species. Neither were the 

 names given by Rumphius intended to be specific and varietal 

 names as we now apply them. Ruhus parvifolius L., based on the 

 latter, is not a blackberry but a raspberry related to R. rosaeflorus. 

 See Focke.f Ruhus moluccanus, on the contrary, is a gpecies of 

 the maple-leaved blackberries of Asia of the subgenus Malacohatus. 

 Rumphius's figure of R. moluccanus shows the plant in fruit. 

 It does not, therefore, represent a seedling state of R. parvifolius. 

 Did Dr. Greene investigate these facts before he asked his 

 questions? 



Ruhus parviflorus Nutt., the earliest name for Ruhacer parvi- 



* See Leaflets 1 : 233. 1906. ^ 



Bibl. Bot. 17"-: 150. 1911. 



