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plants, and to me to seleet another. Were this freedom con- 
ceded to us two, it would have to be granted to every other 
living botanist, and so our genus might receive, next year, as 
many names as there might be botanists ready to add a 
species to it, or write a monograph of it. What is demanded 
of each and all of us is, that we search the printed rec- 
ords of our science, and find the earliest unpreoccupied 
name which the genus received from a botanist. That 
Mara is, in this ease, the oldest name, Dr. Watson! has 
not denied; but he has not passed it by without throw- 
. ing a kind of doubt upon it. He will have his readers think 
that it was not duly published, as regards place. He says the 
. . . . 9*2 *«* 
publieation was *made in the columns of a daily newspaper. 
This statement, whatever it might be worth if it were fact, ds 
fancy. The publication of M ara was not made in a daily 
newspaper. When Dr. Watson ascertains the circumstances 
To print a 
name of a genus or a species is one thing. To publish a ge- 
nus or a species is quite another The former is all that 
for name, ean be credited to no one but Mr. Watson, as I 
have elsewhere indicated. Dr. Torrey once thought to do the 
* Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Aug., 1887. 
