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this kind are always numerous, always liable to be made, 
through ignorance, at time of publication, of the character- 
istics of plants, and there can be no such thing as eliminating 
them but by revolutionizing nomenclature. In this category, 
however, what name can ever be made more contrary to the 
real character of the plant than Galax aphylla, Linn. ? But 
it is everywhere accepted. 
One course of procedure has been taken in this otherwise 
most praiseworthy catalogue which is certainly anomalous in 
a work taking its stand so firmly on the historical basis. I 
refer to the citation of Linnæus as author, for all the genera 
of Tournefort, Dillenius and others of their time. There was 
not bibliological necessity for this; because all these genera 
are faithfully accredited, each to its true author, in Gray’s 
Manual even, not to say De Candolle's Prodromus and Bail- 
lon's Histoire. 
It is time to conclude these remarks. They would have 
been fewer and briefer but for the uncommon interest which 
this new Catalogue elicits. It is a production which can not 
fail to create among us a deeper concern than has yet been 
awakened regarding the element of literary justice in botani- 
cal authorship; an element which not only commends itself to 
our moral sense, but also promises to give us permanent names. 
We have felt like greeting it with only our profoundest admi- 
ration and our warmest praise; and this we have done after 
the most genuine method, by trying to indieate wherein we 
think future editions, under whatever title or in whatever 
form, may be brought into still more perfect conformity to 
the maxims we are so inexpressibly glad to have seen adopted 
in this prodromus. : 
We wish our colleagues all speed in the work of completing 
What they have so well begun. Their new Flora of New 
York will be much wished for until done. It is foreordained 
to possess merits which will procure for it a circulation con- 
siderably beyond the territory whose vegetation it is especially 
to deal with; but after all that, the present Preliminary 
