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well-known native Banksias ; Nageia for Podocarpus, and Podo- 

 carpus for Phyllocladus ; Banksia for Pimelea ] Genosiris for 

 Patersonia ; Draca for Dracaena ; Juncoides for Luzula ; Iria 

 for Fimbristylis ; Chamaerhaphis for Setaria ; Dortmanna for 

 Lobelia ; Statice for Armeria, and Limoniuni for Statice ; 

 Fagelia for Calceolaria ; Tissa for Spergularia ; Aphora for 

 Podalyria ; Meibomia for Desmodium, and a host of other at- 

 tempted changes of well-known and established names for fanciful 

 priority reasons. Such changes, even if any valid reason existed 

 for them, could never be enforced, and the attempt to do so 

 would merely create a botanical Tower of Babel and accentuate 

 difficulties already sufficiently great. 



From the following list it can be seen that only twelve names 

 have been changed in the " Recording Census " as compared 

 with Mueller's "Key," although in the next "Flora of Victoria," 

 a number of sweeping changes will be necessary in the case of 

 such genera as the '' Styphelia,'' ''Aster,'' &c., of Mueller's 

 " Census " and " Key." In the " Recording Census," however, 

 such changes would be out of place. 



"Recording Census, 1908." Mueller's "Key to Vict. Plants," 



1888. 



Gompholobium pedunculare, Lodd. ... Gompholobium Huegelii, Benth. 



Acacia runciformis, Cunn. ... Acacia lineata, Cunn. 



Euphrasia collina, R. Br. ... Euphrasia Brownii, F. v. M. 



Prunella vulgaris, A. D. C. ... Brunella vulgaris, L. 



Pappophorum nigricans, R. Br. ... Pappophorum commune, F. v. M. 



Glyceria Fordeana, F. v. M. ... Poa Fordeana, F. v, M, 



,, fluitans, Scopoli ... ,, fluitans, Scopoli 



,, syrtica, F. v. M. ... ,, syrtica, F. v. M. 



,, dives, F. v. M. ... ,, dives, F. v. M, 



,, ramigera, F. v. M, ... ,, ramigera, F. v. M. 



Hyrrienophyllum australis, Willd. ... Hymenophyllum javanicum, Sprang. 



Hydrocotyle laxiflora, D. C. ... Hydrocotyle Candollei, F. v. M. 



A little confusion is added by the fact that, in certain cases, 

 Mueller gave a plant one name in the first volume of the " Key 

 to the System of Victorian Plants," but a different name in the 

 second volume, without giving in all cases a reason for the change 

 or stating which name he considered valid. 



Vol. I. OF "Key" (18S7-8). Vol. II. of "Key" (1885). 



Geranium pilosum, Solander 

 Solenogyne Emphysopus, Hook. f. 

 Podosperma angustifolium, Labill. 

 Gahnia (14 species) 

 Schizsea bifida, Willd. 



Geranium Carolinianum, L. 

 Lagenophora Emphysopus, Hook. f. 

 Podotheca angustifolia, Lessing 

 Cladium (14 species) 

 Schizaea dichotoma, Smith 



Hydrocotyle Candollei, F. v. M. ^ Hydrocotyle laxiflora, D. C. 



It can be seen, therefore, that fewer changes of name have 

 been made in the " Recording Census," after an interval of 20 

 years, than were made by Mueller in the two years elapsing 

 between the issue of the second and first volumes of the " Key," 

 the numbers being 12 and 19 respectively. 



