1899] CURRENT LITERATURE 221° 
mer tTES FOR STUDENEsS, 
[At the request of the editors Dr. Otto Kuntze has kindly prepared the following 
brief synopsis of his most recent volume.9— Epirors.] 
THE FIRST PAGES (1-384) in the body of the work contain the list of 
plants collected in Patagonia, Argentine, Chili, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and 
also during the author’s travels in South Africa. There are described 11 
new genera, 18 new subgenera, 566 new species, and more than 600 new 
varieties. The minor part of the collections was studied by thirty-two col- 
laborators, and 6 new genera and 179 new species have been previously pub- 
lished, 
The change in the generic names of phanerogams, according to the Paris 
Code, are very few, as they were revised in 1891 in volumes I and II. 
For the algae, however, a change of 36 generic names is proposed, and 
those made in 1891 are mostly defended against the criticisms of M. Le Jolis, 
who has opposed with the following ideas: (1) that priority be not retro- 
abi but the Paris Code excludes only names before Linnaeus; (2) that 
sates cannot be used for generic names; but hundreds of such names 
aieady exist; (3) that unfit names be rejected ; but A. de Candolle has 
ready written “un nom est un nom,” and a name needs no meaning at all ; 
4) that an author be allowed to change his first definition of a genus and its 
wa) Dut according to $59 and its official commentary the first definition 
~ not be annulled ; (5) he confounds obligatory and optional articles of the 
a — meets orthographical license and corrections, although allowed 
of the a (7) he allows only diagnoses for genera to be valid, against 5 42 
de F ae Se follower, M. Malinvaud, secretary of the Société botanique 
has failed to make the necessary preparation for a Paris Congress 
As to fy ag the Paris Code of 1867. 
at shown formerly that in Saccardo’s Sydloge 570 names 
renew 111 m mtely omitted. In proving them I have been compelled to 
show that it is bh names in Reviséo II] than in Revisio I and a oe 
Sarting point, Possible to begin the nomenclature of fungi with a 
Pal to 1898 ntroduction I trace the movement in pecans pee 
Positions may h rs “6 can report little of it here. However, some fees 
‘ystematists i : 2 6tadag There are now two extreme parties of botanica 
- Th the United States. 
Ciple at “Seng represented by Dr. Robinson, etc., follows no real prin- 
. has only one rule for genera. i 
on. and generally known generic names, such as i 
Koss, atea, Caly Canthus, Carya, Aspidium, and others shoul 
Stechert, E, Orto: hae generum, etc., III, 8vo. pp. 784. New York: G. E. 
$7. 
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