954 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
the work of, say, three botanical authors and find they contain as 
many different scientific names for one species, we think we are 
justified in indulging in a few e expressions not altogether com- 
plimentary to two out of the three writers. 
e are glad to see this ane needed 7 aint as it shows—as 
indeed we know to be the case—that many, and those not the 
least important, American sastaisill are not in accord with the 
anarchical methods which have practically rendered the work of 
the Vienna a s ineffective. It was certainly supposed by 
those who were mainly responsible for the assembling of that 
gathering that. < least “to lk who took part in it would consider 
themselves bound by the conclusions gen om but this sup- 
position has been falsified, not only in America but to some 
extent in this country, by tho ie prefer te iplicie their own 
course rather than to suboediaate their individual opinions to the 
consensus of the majority. 
ong the more objectionable of the American innovations is 
the pcskznctcusisee of a trinominal system of nomenclature, which 
indeed seems to be the logical outcome of the method of naming 
adopted by Dr. Moss, set forth and ro in The Cambridge 
British Flora (Introduction, p. xvii.). The oe method seems 
to have arrived at the climax of absurdity in er on Michigan 
Liliacee in the Bulletin of the Torrey Club for fase ford where, as 
the result of ignoring the Vienna list of nomina conservanda and of 
e new trinominal nomenclature we h UOnifolium bifoliwm 
m and a bifoliwm trifolium as forms of Um- 
ae bifoliun: the former, a new creation, “ differs from the 
only in having but one leaf on the stem,” the latter has 
three deatiacs Whether such variation is entitled to a distinctive 
name will be doubted by those who know the variability of Paris 
quadrifolia in this respec 
ave been led away from Mr. Mathews’s book, which 
we eon as a useful and handy volume. 
Bartram’s Garden, Philadelphia, Pa. By Evizapetu O. ABBOT, 
Foundation Member, Botanical Society of Penna: Member 
John Bartram Association. Issued by the Fobu Bartram 
eek March, 1904. Re-issued, 1915, 
trees planted by Bartram himself. The garden was established, 
it is suggested, in 1730: “for a hundred years Sage was in 
— hands; there followed years of cherishing in other 
hands; then came a period of neglect and the threat that the 
sion city would encroach upon it to its extinction ; —— 
