298 The Botanical Gazette. [September, 
representing their proposition in the direction of an international 
agreement. As it is not widely different from the Berlin propositions 
Some agreement may be reached, but we should not be too sanguine 
concerning this. If the Genoa Congress adopts a set of principles so 
little at variance with our own that complete agreement is possible, 
the standing committee is authorized to submit the matter to a vote 
(by mail) of the American botanists. 
It was a wise thing to appoint a standing committee to prepare a 
tentative list of the flowering plants of the so-called “ Manual range” 
under the rules adopted and present it at the next meeting of the Club 
or of the new Botanical Section of the American Association. This 
will give the most conspicuous example of the working of these rules 
that could be selected from our flora, and botanists can have before 
them a concrete illustration, and can then determine whether the prin- 
ciples adopted work reasonably well or not. In the opinion of the 
GazeTTE the changes that will follow in Manual names will be much 
fewer than many suppose. : 
IN THIS CONNECTION it may be well to call attention to a single pt0- 
vision of the adopted rules; which is, to make 17 53 (Linn. . Plant, 
ed. 7) as the common point of departure for both genera and species. 
This will do away with a number of generic names that have been te 
cently revived, and is better in this regard than the Berlin proposition, 
which takes the fourth edition of Linnzus’ Genera Plantarum (175) 
as the point of departure for genera. If the 1753 date is adopted < 
Genoa, the list of genera which are proposed by the Berlin circulars 
exceptions will be shortened, and in fact so few that concern Ameri 
can botanists will be left that they should not be considered when 1 
volving a dangerous recedent. ; 
THE cthieitie ieee bids fair to mark an epoch for American 
botanists. Not only was an agreement concerning nomen 
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: ae a f pal ers 
responsible for a section, and they can begin the pe ae hey 
soot : t 
for the next meeting in the full assurance of having not onl. 
a hearing, but also for discussion. 
