Match 28, 1907 55 
EDITORIAL 
We are now regularly running twenty pages each month, 
the number originally planned. - The trouble will not be to find 
enough material each month, but to find an excuse for not print- 
ing more. The time when we shall enlarge to twenty-four, 
twenty-eight, or thirty-two pages rests not with the editor, but 
with the botanical public and the present subscribers. As mat- 
ters stand at present, the subscription list is too small for the 
size of the journal. We are doing this work for the benefit of 
botanical science, and want our subscribers to take a personal 
interest in the success of the venture. Do not feel that your 
part is done when you have sent in your own subscription, but 
let us have the names of friends whom you think might be in- 
terested, or tell them about it yourself. Also, do not wait for 
some one else to write articles about things which you would 
like to see in print, but write them yourself. Other people are 
sure to be interested. 
One thing we wish you to keep green in your memory is 
that the editor is not going to dictate to you as to how certain 
things are to be printed, or refuse to put them in unless you 
conform to his way of thinking. He confesses to a preference 
for capital letters when species bear personal or geographical 
names, but when a contributor sends in names beginning with 
a small letter they are printed that way. Such a course inter- 
feres somewhat with “style,” but we consider that a small mat- 
ter. Similarly in regard to nomenclature the author of a paper 
should be responsible for the names, not the editor. Personally 
we are addicted to what has been termed the “new” nomencla- . 
ture. To our mind it is, if priority is rigidly inforced without 
regard to exceptions, double names, or anything else which 
tends to break down priority, the only honest kind of nomen- 
clature, but we do not feel in the least aggrieved if other people 
think differently, and are willing to let them use any kind of 
name they prefer, under their own signature. 
