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tion of which would not long be tolerated ; and the distribution of named spe- 
eimens, where and as far as they go, is held to be tantamount to publication. 
in passing under review the ‘Classes of objectionable names,’ we wonder that 
geographical specific names should have been objected to: we find them very 
convenient in botany and, next to characteristic names, about as good as any. 
Comparative specific names in oides and inea, etc., are much used by botanists, 
and are often particularly characteristic. Specific names derived from persons, 
used with discretion, and as far as possible restricted to putin who have had to 
do with the species, as discoverer, describer, etc., are surely pohjoi 
Generic names derived from persons are, we agree, han restricted to botany, 
= when appropriately applied, they are in good taste, if not too cacopho- 
As to clo sely res resembling names, in large genera it may sometimes be 
E to! calla species virens or virescens Bots there is already a viridis. Ana- 
s, like puns, if not peda handled and particularly well made, are in- 
Ea But what can be prettier, PAE uppus names, than R. Brown’s 
Tellima? Botanists will hardly agree that a good generic name which has 
been effectually superseded by the law of Pl he should never be 
bestowed upon some other genus of some other order. ‘It has so metimes been 
the practice, in subdividing an old genus, to give to the lesser genera so formed 
the names of their respective typical species. The Committee objects to this 
usage because the promotion calls for new specific names. To us it seems a 
em the objection of xs Committee is probably connected with a peculiar 
view which they have adopted as to the way of citing species which have been 
transferred to some other than the original genus. Here man y zoologists, and 
bably have adhered had he lived till now, we write the name and the pibot 
t 
** Leontice thalictroides, Linn. 
(Syn. — thalietroides, Michx.) 
The abbreviated names of the authors appended stand in place of the full re- 
ference, e.g Linn, Sp. Pl i. p.448, and M Michx. Fl. Bor-Am. i. p- 
t. 21. df e other view be adopted, it stands, in fact :— 
4 —— lum thalictroides, Michx. 
. Leontice thalictroides, Linn.) "wb 
But, fearful lest the original describer should be robbed of his due qued it has 
been proposed to write, — 
* Caulophyllum. thalictroides, Linn. This is not only an Pai rin of 
