Dr. Kuntze and His Reviewers.^ 



Tlie more tlinu eleren hundred learned pages upon plant 

 naming which Dr. Otto Kuiitze gave to the world seven months 

 ago, we look upon as the most important contribution that lias 

 been made to the literature of this subject in the whole history 

 of Botany. 



This, I think, is a more favorable view of the merits of the 

 work than any I have met with in the several reviews of it 

 whicli I have read. Indeed the greater part of them have 

 seemed almost wholly depreciative of these elaborate and 

 very remarkable volumes. 



M hile not finding myself at agreement with Dr. Kuntze in 

 ^every particular, I am confident that some of the positions 

 assumed by him on matters of nomenclature are both excellent 

 and easily defensible; and I am as confident that at least a 

 very large proportion of his new combinations, which men 

 have so generally reprobated, will have to be accepted as the 

 only valid names for the plants designated. I ara there- 

 fore resolved to vvrite a number of paragraphs in defense of 

 the work, taking up as my line of action that of answering 



^ Revisio Generum Plantarum Vasculan'um omnium, atque CeUularnm 

 mnllaram, secundum Leges Nomenclature^ InternaiionaleSj * * * ji^it 

 Erlauterun^en von Dn Otto Kuntze, Wurtzburg, 1891. 



Botanical Nomenclature. By Mr. W. B.'Hemsley, in "Nature," slv. 

 169. Deo. 24, 1891. 



Notices of Books, By Mb. B. D. Jackson, in *' Journal of Botany," 

 XXX. 57, February, 1892. 



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Reviews of Foreign Literature, By Db N. L. Britton, iu ''Bulletin of 

 the Torrey Botauical Club," xix. 50. February, 1892. 



Review of the ''RedsioJ' By K. Schumanx, iu ''Naturwissenscliaftliclien 

 Enndschan," vii. No. 13. 



