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fish men to make new names, for. there is no glory in reducing 
_ species to mere varieties. This method of treatment would re- 
duce by nearly a half the species of Antennaria, Castilleia, Salvia, 
Lupinus, Senecio, Arabis, Draba, Lepidium, aspi, Erysimum, 
denus, Poa, Festuca, Agropyron, Elymus, Viola and hundreds of 
others. Geographical varieties would then be the most interest- 
ing plants to study, and the tracing out ofsthe causes of these 
variations would result in the greatest practical good to students 
of agriculture and horticulture, and to those who are furnishing 
the food supply of the world. It would also bring systematic 
botany back 0 a point of respectability and standing instead of 
being the scientific laughing stock of the world, as it is now. 
