38 The Botanical Gazette. [ January, 
graphical error that we should have both gvossi- and grosse-dentatum! 
“ Often the specific name is in the wrong gender.” agus orbiculatim 
ing the fact that the reviewer says: “. . . there are many things” 
that are admissible in a manuscript, written as the thought first comes” 
to us, and pleasing for a time to the fancy, which should be omitted 
in print!” (It is a matter of great regret that no general rule for the - 
appease of this principle was laid down for the guidance of future 
edit 
“Misleading phrases; ¢. g.: ‘dots like the impression of basilat 
points of hairs.’” Basilar parts of hairs would have perhaps been 
better, but the phrase is not misleading as it stands, for when a leaf 
covered with a firm pubescence becomes fossilized, the impression 
airs h a 
like 
rs on which they appear 
bunch 
us p , om 
oranges!), which is often called, and for all popular and_practi@® — 
purposes zs a seed. The resemblance of the fossil under discussion 
si 
pa oeais oN is a too indiscriminate use of terms, ¢. bat 
ported by facts, and that “there are others not numbered” is true 
only one case, plate xx1 fig. 1, which is instantly restored, by people 
ordinary intelligence, by exclusion 
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