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that were neither considerate nor accurate. — As regards the 

 priority of S. F. Gray's generic names of Hepaticse, I havenever 

 gone into the matter. In the « Index Plantarum Phsenogami- 

 carum » now being printed at Kew, we attribute to S. F. Gray 

 ail such generic names of Phsenogams as are proposed in the 

 « Natural Arrangement of British plants ». — Delieve me, dear 

 Mr. Le Jolis, with ail good wishes of the season, faithfully 

 yours — Jos. D. Hooker. » 



Note M. 



« After Raddi came Samuel Gray, who, in his Natural 

 Arrangement of British plants (1821), carved a number of new 

 gênera out of the British species, merely by adding substantive 

 names to the sections and subsections of Junger mania, in the 

 conspectus at the end of Hooker's work, without adding a single 

 original observation, and plainly without having examinéd any 

 of the plants themselves. As that conspectus was intended 

 solely to facilitale the naming of species, and was confessedly 

 in part artificial, the gênera founded on it could only by acci- 

 dent be thoroughly natural. Hooker indeed had a clear notion 

 of the aiTinities of the species he described, and if Gray had only 

 read over Hooker's detailed descriptions, he would never hâve 

 confounded under one genus (Martinellius) such very diverse 

 groups as those w^e now call Radula, Scapania and Plagiochila. 

 For his names, he merely opened Micheli's Nova Gênera 

 Plantarum, and from among the names of Micheli's patrons at 

 the foot of the plates, selected at random one for each of his 

 new gênera; without even changingthe masculine termination 

 to the féminine, as is customary — as was indeed the practice 

 of Micheli himself, e. gr. from Tozzius, Tozzia. » Richard 

 Spruce, On Mai'supella Stahleri n. sp. and some allied species 

 of European Hepaticœ. (Revue bryologique, 8' année 1881, 

 p. 89.) 



Note N 



« Der englischen Hepaticologen mag durch dièse Arbeit 

 Garruthers wohl ein patriotischer Seufzer entfahren, aber die 

 deutschen Hepaticologen werden wohl auch nach dieser ijber- 

 raschenden Entdeckung unbeirrt an den jetzt iiblichen Bezeich- 

 nung festhalten. » Gottsche, Hedwigia, V, nM, p. 14, 1866. 



