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later part of the eighteenth century, these names were often writ- 

 ten in Latin. The first Protestant Archbishop of Sweden was 

 Lars Peterson, who usually wrote his name Laurentius Petri (the 

 word films being understood). In Swedish history we read both 

 of Olaiis Magmis (Big Olof, so called for his size) and Olaits 

 Magni (Olof Magnuson). In the genitive both names would be 

 Olai Magni. The old way of writing Johnson, Anderson, Lar- 

 son, etc., could scarcely be used in botanical names, as it would 

 cause much confusion, and the names would scarcely be recog- 

 nizable. The three above mentioned would be respectively, 

 Joliannis, Andreae, and Lanrentii. If a Roman had seen Ander- 

 son written, without knowing the meaning or derivation, he 

 would very likely have written the genitive as Andersonis. He 

 might perhaps have given it the Latin form Andersonius {-ii) ; 

 but never as many of our botanists do, Andersonus (-/). 



If a Roman had seen the name Ames, he would probably have 

 written it in the genitive Amis, according to the third declension. 

 It is perhaps safer to latinize such names and write Amesuis 

 {-ii), in the same way as Des Cartes became Cartesius {-ii). 



From the foregoing it would appear that the Berlin rules must 

 be modified in order to accord with good Latin usage, and that 

 the latinizing of proper nouns is a matter that needs the attention 

 of a botanical congress. 



HETEROPHYLLY IN HEPATICA ACUTA 



By S. H. Burnham 



A few years ago, while collecting in an old rich wood near 

 Vaughns, Washington County, New York, I found several plants 

 of an interesting acute-leaved Hepatica, and transplanted a single 

 plant in my wild garden, where the leaves have remained con- 

 stantly seven- to nine-lobed. The normal form has leaves with 

 three acute lobes, sometimes passing into Hepatica Hepatica (L.) 

 Karst, with which it sometimes grows, though it usually blooms a 

 week earlier in northern New York. Often, leaves are five-lobed ; 

 but rarely is the lobing carried so far as in the above plants. 



