EDITORIAL. 
PROFESSOR GREENE indulges in some characteristic hypercriticism 
in connection with the rules for citation adopted by the Madison Bo- 
tanical Congress and Section G, A. A. A.S. Without finding fault 
with the rules themselves (for which relief much thanks), he takes a 
page to pick flaws in the abbreviations used in the examples which 
are supplied for the convenience of readers in interpreting the rules. 
Had Professor Greene even taken occasion to read the rules and the 
reference therein given, he would have seen that the abbreviations of 
authors’ names, journals, etc., to be used in citation have not yet been 
reported upon by the committee. Criticism of this sort is an expres- 
sion of querulousness, and degenerates into mere faultfinding, “as any 
accomplished bibliographer would readily perceive.” We may, with- 
out offence we hope, remind Mr. Greene that kindliness of word and 
charitable judgment are vastly more effective than the petulance of 
this criticism or the rancor of his ungentlemanly attack on Mr. Shel- 
don in the same number of Zrythea. 
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ON THE INSIDE page of the cover of Grevilica the following appears 
as a standing notice: “Specimens of cryptogamic plants will be named 
for students. The plants must be carefully packed and numbered 
and postage enclosed for reply.” Then follow the names and ad- 
dresses of those to whom they are to be sent, and the notice con- 
cludes thus: “This applies to students only who show by accompany- 
ing notes a desire to work. Wholesale batches, sent merely with the 
object of forming a ‘list’, will not be countenanced.” While none ot 
our editors in this country is perhaps ready to make such an announce- 
ment as a personal matter, this notice really contains a hint for Amer- 
ican students. It may be taken for granted that those named in con- 
nection with the Systematic Botany of North America (see this journal 
20: 177. Ap. 1895) stand ready to receive material under the condi- 
tions named above and to determine it for correspondents. It cer- 
tainly ought not to be necessary to send material abroad for deter- 
mination, which some collectors seem altogether too ready to do. It 
