go Tre Botanical Gazette. [February 
which congress at Berlin, although proposed for 1895, noth- 
ing has been done or prepared, so far as I know, although! 
worked in the Berlin botanic museum till last October. —OT1 
KUNTZE, San Remo, Italy. 
Dates and references, and priority in nomenclature. 
I am just now at work on the two species of Chimaphilt 
C. umbellata and C. maculata. My good friend Conway 
turn to ‘Index Kewensis,” and find it is ‘Jour. Phys. %¢ 
Examining ‘Journal de Physique” for that year, I find a pap 
by Rafinesque entitled i 
onta should be changed ‘‘as dete 
to a gardener who does not merit the honor.” ‘‘L 
