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BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
Primula Cusickiana Gray.—I have just received from Mr. E. M. Salt, of 
Boisé City, Idaho, living specimens of this species collected near that place. 
Heretofore it has been reported vets from Union county, E. Oregon, by Mr. W. 
E. Cusick, in whose honor the specific name eck Lakin: oa »: hier line 
down fini the sinuses” of the fe tube is th 
P. iarinosa, and is very apt to disappear in older or much handled cl 
Of course this mealiness often leaves a bleached out line which m may persist or 
not. Mr. Salt ahd oe the plant had been blooming since the middle of Feb- 
ruary.—J. M. Cou 
Bentham on ag of authorities.—Referring to our editorial on the 
citation of authorities we are asked to give the other side of the question by 
reprinting some remarks by Bentham in the Journal of the Linnean Society, 
Xvii (1878). p. 190. Although willing to conform to usage, we fail to see that 
this affects our position in the least.— Eps. 
Besides the roung. aren minded botanists who scorn a submit to any rule 
ad their own, there others who differ materially in their interpretation of 
e of the hes, or bet do not perceive that in following a strictly Ge let- 
ter instead of their spirit they are only addin need feeely to the general rege 
se 
Iitheugh much credit may be due to the collector or botanist who has dis- 
covered or distinguished really new species (and it isbut fair that their discov- 
ould — it i rid 
of names, good or ba 
attached. Ina ae sii efore, pr en the ea is ver to speak of a plant as 
sub Hesperide), explanatory “ the history of the name. istory, a 
lutely necessary in a full monograph, tee instance, should alwave be pel a 
as belonging to sa description and history of the species, not as we ies part 
ofits name. It is also with s ras agi pci that w Me distinguished botanists 
