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tree. As for the name, that is creditial absolutely to Du Roi. 
Next after the name Pinus Abies comes a closely compacted 
paragraph of 4o bibliographic citations; this subserving a double 
purpose, that of a description of the species—which description 
the student may find in the works cited—and that of the 
synonymy of the species. 
Of synonyms for this one he cites 10 binary names, beginning 
with Pinus Picea of Linnaeus, which can not be received as the 
name for the reason that the tree is not what Linnaeus supposed 
it to be, namely the Picea of the ancients. 
As to citation of authors, this part of the paragraph begins 
with the completing of those given only partially and suggestively 
within the parenthesis above. The reader is now furnished with 
the exact places in Homer, in Theophrastus, in Virgil and in 
Pliny, where this species is written about by those authors of 
the distant past; and the 4o authors cited include selections of 
them from almost all the centuries from before the Christian 
era, down to a point far past the middle of the nineteenth. And 
a particularly admirable feature of this copious bibliography is 
that the works cited are not alone treatises on strictly systematic 
and descriptive botany. References to authors on agriculture, 
pomological and especially medical botany are numerous, not 
to mention citations of poets who have sung the qualities and 
uses, and even the folk lore of old and long known trees and 
shrubs and herbs; so that economic botanists of whatever 
specialty, may find these wonderful bibliographies of Bubani’s 
quartos a treasury of references to almost the whole earlier liter- 
ature of applied botany; a treasury, too, such as does not else- 
where exist. 
Our understanding of Bubani’s mind may be in no better 
way helped than by following through the very next page of his 
discussion of Pinus, the second Pyrenean species being captioned 
thus: 
Pinus Pinea (Homer, Arist., Theocr., Virg., Theophr., Diosc. ; 
L. Sp. 
Need one repeat, that here also the parenthetic names of 
authors have not any bearing upon the nomenclature of this 
pine? They are but preliminary hints of ancient classic writing 
about the tree. Oaly in the case of a passage in Theophrastus 
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