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be claimed. It will, at most, be so to the few scores of botanists who 
have learned a few hundred names and have frequent occasion to use 
ome ye. 
anuals giv j 
gues, monographs, magazine articles, etc., that are now appearing, 
are fast supplying the names according to the new system, and th 
cry of “instability” while these changes are being accomplished, will 
likewise disappear shortly. 
ut even if this “inconvenience” were really ey and the mass of 
ts 
that were adopted, and according to which the committee was instructed 
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importance, how far is the claim really well founded? e commit- 
Same when exercised by a larger boty : ; 
made without due consideration. For my part,I consider nothing 
