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to put Linn., after the names for reasons which are adequate, and 

 which need not be repeated at this place. Mueller is inconsistent 

 when he gives a reference such as this : — " Luffa, Tournefort in 

 act. Acad. Paris, 84. t. 2 (1706) from Yesling (1638)." If he 

 declines to abolish the authors' names of pre-Linnean botanists, 

 why draw a line at Tournefort, as in this case 1 Why not, as he 

 has done in analogous cases, write " Luffa, Vesling (1638)'?" 

 This is not the only inconsistency of this kind. He states the case 

 according to the generally accepted views of the vast majority of 

 botanists in the entr}^, "Curcuma, Linne gen. plant. 332 (1737) 

 from Hermann 1687." But this is the only instance I can find, 

 and is probably a slip. 



Then we have the following entries, which I have put in tabu- 

 lar form : — 



Species and Date. Genus and Date. 



acquatilis, Ranunculus, 



Dodoens, 1583. Tournefort, 1700. 



(Enoplia, 



Miller, 1731. 



Zizyphus, 



Tournefort, 1700. 



These are cases which absolutely come within De Candolle's 

 dictum, " Never make an author say what he has never said." 



