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407 have repeated the error. If they had looked up the place (" page 383 " of the third 

 volume of St. Louis Academy Transactions), they would have found there no allusion to 

 this oak whatsoever. It was not known to him at the time page 383 was printed. But, 

 at page 392 of the same volume, printed more than a half year later, in "Additional Notes," 

 under a reference to " page 383 " preceding, where Q. chrysolepis is the topic, he brings 

 out the Q. Palmeri for the first time, though not at all as a variety of Q. chrysolepis. 

 These are his words : "Another extreme and somewhat aberrant subspecies, I name for 

 its discoverer Q. Palmeri-^'' and thereupon follows the description. It is the rule, with 

 botanists who do not recognize subspecies in nomenclature, to treat subspecific names as 

 equivalent to specific. Under this rule, the name Q. Palmeri will antedate Q. Dunnii ; 

 though the description by Dr. Kellogg, under the latter name, is by far the better of the 

 two ; and it was Mr. Dunn who discovered the tree, and conducted Dr. Palmer to its 

 habitat. 



