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could quite easily have been done, as Mr. Eidley is responsible 

 both for this and for the descriptions in the Icones, to which his 

 name is indeed appended, and the two publications were passing 

 through the press simultaneously. 



The difficulties presented by this dual publication are more 

 serious than might at first sight be perceived. Two of the new 

 genera and five of the new species are attributed in the cor- 

 rections to *' Wernham in Hook. Ic. PL " ; but a reference to the 

 Icones fails to justify such an attribution. We are in a position 

 to state that Mr. Wernham was in no sense responsible for the 

 descriptions in the Icones ; not only does his name appear 

 nowhere in connection with them, but they were not even sub- 

 mitted to him in proof, and, as has been said, Mr. Ridley's name 

 alone is appended to them. Had Mr. Eidley printed, as we think 

 he should have done, the author's own descriptions of the plants, 

 which he manifestly had before him when preparing the text for 

 the Icones, there would be less ground for criticism ; but he modi- 

 fies these descriptions by trivial alterations of phrasing, by omission 

 of details, and in at least one case — there may be others, but the 

 instance to be cited is the only one we have checked — by direct 

 contradiction ; the new genus Neoivollastonia is described by 

 Mr. Wernham (Beport, p. 110) as having " calyx glandulosus," 

 whereas Mr. Ridley (Ic. PI. 3060) writes " calyx eglandulosus." 

 This may have been a slip of the pen, as w^e find in the same 

 description " stamina infra tuhimi medium inserta," but, occurring 

 as it does in the first published account of the genus, is not with- 

 out importance. It is perhaps somewhat of an assumption that 

 Mr. Ridley is the writer of the generic description, as his name is 

 appended only to that of the species ; but we do not think there 

 are any grounds for attributing it to Sir David Prain, the editor 

 of the Ico7ies, and it certainly did not proceed from Mr. Wernham's 

 pen. 



These things being so, the " corrections " on p. 269 of the 

 Beport must be further corrected by the addition of the words " ex 

 Ridley " after the names of Messrs. Wernham and Moore, whose 

 own publication of the species was anticipated by Mr. Ridley. It 

 may be well to subjoin a list of the plants which appear both in 

 the Icones and in the Beport, with completed references and an 

 indication of the way in which they will have to be cited by future 

 waiters : 



Drimys elongata Ridley in Hook. Ic. PI. 3051 ; in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2, ix, p. 13. 



Aglaia rubra Ridley in Hook. Ic. PI. 3052 ; in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. vol. cit, p. 26. 



Tmiojiius vaccimoides Wernham ex Ridley in Ic. PL 3054 ; in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. cit. p. 74. 



Vittadinia disticha S. Moore ex Ridley in Ic. PL 3055 ; in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. cit. p. 84. 



Mischople2cra Wernham ex Ridley in Ic, PL 3059 ; in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. vol. cit. p. 99. M. ovalifolia et M. Bidleyana 

 Wernham 11. cc. 



