OPEN LETTERS. 
Botany at the A. A. A.S. 
Every one, I think, se eile the new movement to compress all 
the sessions of the Am —s ciation for the Advancement of 
: ot 
at Springfield were of no interest, save to the author, and yet they 
were valuable contributions to science and, as such, should have foand 
a general gathering of botanists, and yet it is conceivable that it might 
be worth putting into print for the delectation of the two or three, OF 
ental phenomena 
or structures of plants, node philosophical questions, geographical 
matters, distribution, the latest advances and methods, and a score of 
other subjects, will always prion interest and do good. Let the papers 
pe browns and life in them, and the meetings will abound in enthus- 
asm . H. Barvey, /thaca, Nv. ¥; 
Botanical re oye 
e 
that changes similar to those in botanical nomenclature are also to be 
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to the very loose and indefinite word hs l ok 9 a re ieee in 
the diagnoses. Instead of the old terms, ee glumes, ” «flowering 
me” a d alet,” 5 — eg ome these organs as “outer or in- 
ner scales,” or ‘ecale 14 
We venture to ask adcken poor is really any reason for making 
such change, since these organs have always been a the glumes 
and the palet. It seems very surprising indeed that Mr. Nash in de- 
scribing grasses has not been aware of the aerpholenicil dissimilarity 
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