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second rule with powerful arguments. In a list (pp. JOO-125) I show that 618 
of my reformed generic names among the phanerogams, out of 740 in Revisio 
I and II, have been already accepted since 1891 by botanists all over the 
world, or that some of the names not yet accepted could not be rejected by 
the Berlin rules. 
In pp. 40-42 I sum up the obscurities of the Kew Index. In chapter 31 
I add further notes to Pritzel’s Thesaurus, with exact dates for wrong or | 
unknown dates of publication. 
Since a competent international congress at Paris in 1900 is not possible, 
and the amendment of the Paris Code will scarcely be obtained for a long 
time, the only way to obtain international order in botanical nomenclature is 
by strictly following the Paris Code with my amendments, which are not at 
all revolutionary. But since the starting point 1735 has found everywhere 
least acceptance, it will be best to take the only really scientific and themost 
. €conomical starting point of 1737.— Dr. Orro Kuntze, Villa Girola, San 
Remo, ly, 
ITEMS OF TAXONOMIC INTEREST are as follows: A fascicle of eighteen 
hew species of Lower Californian plants is published by T. S. BRANDE 
GEE in Erythea (7: 1-9. 1899).— A new Botrychium from New England 
(B. tenebrosum) is published by A. A. Eaton in The Fern Bulletin (i - 
1899).—In the Bull. Torr. Bot. Club (25 : 605-621. 1898) JouN K. su fo 
continues his “Studies in the botany of the southeastern United Stal 
Twenty-four new Species are described as follows: Melanthium (1), Sai a 
lax (4), Gyrostachys (3), Oxalis (2), Physostegia (1), Euphorbia (4), Hyper S 
cum (1), Gaura (1), Verbena (1), Gerardia (2), Solidago (1), ‘Doellingena () 
Aster (1). The author's name Forcifella for a genus of the Paronychit: 
cee having been preempted, he has replaced it by Gibbesia, in honor 
Professor L. R. Gibbes, of Charleston, S. C.— In the same journal (626-609) 
ee Sete 
ten new species of Wyoming plants in the following genera: seid oe 
taria, Lilium, Abronia, Arenaria, Aconitum, Astragalus (4 spp-)-— acl 
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new violets ; has renamed Viola bicolor Pursh, calling it V. Rafines9 sem 
described five new western roses, one of which (2. pratinicola) 's a 
common prairie form commonly referred to R. Arkansana oF Saadarpts in the : 
established fourteen new species of western “ choripetalous exogens A 
