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sends a considerable number of garden specimens, which I have not 

 separated from the general stock of duplicates, but have preferred to 

 leave them there, whence their own contributor, one of the active dis- 

 tributors of the Society, may arrange and distribute them as he shall 

 think fit. In reference to the distribution of garden-grown specimens, 

 however, I would here make a remark or two. In the instance of 

 species where there is difficulty or impossibility of obtaining wild ex- 

 amples enough, or when there is some special point to be illustrated, 

 or some comparison to be made, in which the garden-raised specimens 

 may usefully assist, — in any of such instances I would willingly dis- 

 tribute cultivated plants, as a necessity or utility. But, otherwise, it 

 does not appear desirable that members should fall into the practice 

 of contributing garden plants, simply as examples of species, wild 

 specimens of which can readily be obtained by marking their names 

 in the Society's list of desiderata. As an instance where the distribu- 

 tion of garden-grown specimens of very local species, in the absence 

 of wild specimens, seems to be quite allowable and desirable, I may 

 refer to Mr. H. O. Stephens's examples of the very rare Allium Am- 

 peloprasum, garden grown, from roots originally procured at the lo- 

 cality of Steep Holmes. But there could be no call or necessity 

 whatever to substitute garden examples of Anacharis Alsinastrum, 

 Cladium Mariscus, and other things which, although somewhat local 

 and even novel, can be got in any quantity at their natural localities, 

 easily within reach of various members of the Society. 



Misnomers. I am happy to say that the misnomers are now quite 

 few comparatively with those on the labels formerly sent to the So- 

 ciety, or committed by the curators and distributors in Bedford Street. 

 The number of these errors would ere now have been still more re- 

 duced, if I could have persuaded Mr. Dennes to adopt a practice 

 which appeared very desirable in my own eyes, but to which he al- 

 ways seemed disinclined or indifferent. My constant effort has been 

 to render the Botanical Society instrumental in correcting or prevent- 

 ing those errors of name which are continually causing false records 

 of localities to be printed, through the name of a wrong species being 

 mistakenly connected with the locality recorded. But our valuable 

 Secretary (who really cares nothing about botanical science, although 

 caring so much, and doing so much, for the Botanical Society) can- 

 not enter into my views in this respect. I have repeatedly urged that 

 an example of any misnamed species, with its label corrected, should 

 be returned to the member who sent it, in his next parcel from the 

 Society. This course not being taken, although expressly announced 

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