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We have strongly opposed the prevailing custom of adding per- 

 sonal names to the names of plants, owing to the amount of inferior 

 work to which it leads. We think that a binomial name alone should 

 indicate a plant and should have a specific meaning, and that in select- 

 ing names authors should be influenced by no other consideration 

 than the proper classification and the specific designation under which 

 the plant is best known. Under this system we believe that in a 

 reasonable time botanical nomenclature would become definite, as all 

 ether languages have become by a similar process. Under the present 

 system each author is mainly interested, not in using the names used 

 before, but in getting up new ones to which to add his own. It is as 

 easy to shuffle names, both specific and generic, as to move about 

 the men on a checker board. The result is an ever-changing lan- 

 guage, and almost every one who writes on the subject uses largely 

 his own names. 



In the Nidulariaceae, the man who brought system out of chaos 

 was Tulasne, sixty years ago. Since his monograph, I feel that his 

 names should be adopted so long as his genera are accepted, which 

 will probably be always. Most botanists, even if they get their in- 

 formation from Tulasne and follow him, feel it incumbent to add a 

 personal name taken from Tulasne. To these we indicate the proper 

 name to add to the species in this pamphlet. 



Tulasne to Crucibulum vulgare, Cyathus ambiguus, Berkeleyanus. 

 Gayanus, intermedius, limbatus, microsporus, Montagnei, novae-zee- 

 landiae, Poeppigii, Lesueurii, Schweinitzii, Nidularia australis and 

 Duriaeana ; Berkeley to Colensoi, Hookeri, pallidus, Nidula emodensis ; 

 Patouillard to minimus and Nidularia Heribaudii ; Schu'einitz to ster- 

 coreus; Ellis to rufipes; Hudson to striatus; Nees to dasypus ; Peck 

 to Nidula Candida and microcarpa; Massee to Nidularia fusispora; 

 Roth to Nidularia pisiformis and Tode to Sphaerobolus stellatus. For 

 the remainder it does not matter much. 



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