1895,.] Open Letters. 429 
by another, it matters not from a nomenclature standpoint whether 
the /. megacephalus of 1834 be treated as distinct or as identical with 
some older species. urther: a variety paniculatus of 
Engelmann, 1868, must be erected into a species. The name /uncus 
” 
a 
Considered from the standpoint of stability the 
sion 1s, it seems to me, incontrovertible. am well 
t 
reviewed the whole Botanical Club principles adversel and with crit- 
point, one surely cannot ask for a more favorable commentary on the 
stability-producing capacity of the system.—FREDERICK V. CovILLE, 
Washington, D. C. 
Decapitalization. 
Spanish and Latin. ajaensis on the contrary leads us to the know- 
ance, 
of Nevada, while nevadensis leads us to the belief that the species is 
of the whiteness of snow, and would be at the same time again a 
Latino-Spanish “jumble.”—C. F. MILLSPAUGH, Field Columbian Mu- 
Seum, Chicago. : 
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