CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 5 
H. M. Hall. 
H. M. Hall. The recent death of this promising young bot- 
anist is greatly deplored. It was ee ‘apna to ste pet che 
by Clements in his early botanical wo which he seemed con- 
strained to adopt some of that erra ratié ireietes foulini: terminol- 
ogy. Clement’s familiarity with his mother tongue was so poor, 
and his santa knowledge of Greek so great that young men 
were hoodooed inte falling on line with him, adopting his termi- 
nology as the most up-to-date thing in research, when in fact it 
was nothing but a grandstand bluff. When an American has to go 
back a thousand years to aoe express his ideas we suspect to 
fir’ a screw loose in his an 
Hall’s work on the nw 7 fy mts. is a painstaking piece of 
work, and had he gone into it peo ogere direction he could 
unravel the tangle made by Mer His ideas on ei lim- 
n were nearly right, but he sa the example for a mass of 
foolish oem in the species by giving names to niiitich and 
f as subspecies and subgenera, which others have followed 
supposing it was a new discovery instead of a piece of pure bunk. 
His revisions of Bigelovia and Aplopappus {under othor names) 
were good. It was amusing to see him try to resurrect — 
pus. Doubtless he was led into it by his “linguistie‘‘ super 
but had either of them been at all familiar with Greek they aie 
have known that there is no letter ‘*h** in Greek, for it was not 
eonsidered worthy of litteral rank, just being a rough breathing, 
used or discarded according to the whim of the user, just as the 
English of today aspirate or de-aspirate initial vowels, much to 
our amusement, For example, they would spell saloon with a 
‘hess, a ‘‘hay‘’, a ‘‘hell‘‘, two ‘‘hoes*‘, and a ‘th 
The founder of the genus, Cassini, chose to write it Aplopap- 
pus, and it remained so till Endlicher, the hair- vi cial tried to 
correct it, but the botanical world has ignored him 
