62 The Botanical Gazette. [February, 
OPEN LETTERS. 
Suggested by Kuntze’s ‘‘Revisio Generum Plantarum.” 
cause the latter were published a year earlier, or even not any:earlier, — 
but simply on ‘the preceding page of the same book, or still logically, 
coria, Or Magnolia grand . fetida, our s have been 
op by the law of priority, and our ru tempers have been 
smoothed he assurance that all of these vexatious changes were 
ous tsto Generum Plantarum, and finds it necessa : 
39,000 Changes in specific names before he can publish his description 
of species collecte a journey'round the world! “ 
. e zeal of a live antiquarian. : bee 
S Decome outlawed after a time, and it would simplify mat 
D € same practice to old names. There seems — 
