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seedsman’s varieties and forms there given. But that is not even 
~a beginning to what he would do with the snnendd names of her- 
baceous plants as we find them in seed catalo We fear his 
stock of good Latin would run dry long before he got through. 
Suppose we take some of the Hellerian — under those 
conditions. We would have such combinations as this: Malus 
Redastracanus, Malus pees. Malus aie ther-us, a very 
appropriate name which he would do well to follow. Mr. Heller | 
would soon distance Cecene: who now holds the record with his. 
several hundred species of Eschscholtzia out of a possible valid 
dozen. And yet Mr. Heller says he only describes species. In 
view of his statements as to what constitutes a species (anything 
deserving a name of any kind is a Hellerian species) the botani- 
eal public will certainly demand to be cas whether hie knows. 
what a species is 
Ir. Heller says that we ought to name everything in iee : 
because it often happens that what a person once considered trivial 
characters prove by further study to be specific, or some other 
botanist comes along and proves that the describer of a species © 
lumped several in one. Just so. How about the hundreds of Nut- 
talian species that further study has shown were fictitious? The 
knows that these men either know nothing about ecology or de-_ 
liberately ignored fundamental and primary facts in ecology in 
order to make specific names to which they could attach their own 
names as authors. It is almost inconceivable that a botanist even 
with the knowledge that an ordinary boy would pick up in the - 
fields if left to himself does not know that a plant grow mie in ee 
shade will differ from another of the same species if gro 
the sun and will differ in certain well known directions, will “tiffer 
if grown on a hot or cold slope, a rocky or loamy soil, a well 
drained or poorly drained soil, and yet if the seeds of these plants 
are planted the peculiarities will at once disappear if put under 
other ecological conditions. We must give those men the credit 
of having ordinary sense, and if we do then the conclusion is in-- 
evitable that they made these species for purely personal reasons. 
Mr. Heller claims that it is personal abuse to say that the 
chance of getting one’s name attached to the tail of a new botanical 
