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for game.” Lindley (/.c.) spells the generic name Gautheria: 
other variants are Gualterta (Scopoli), Gualtheria (J. F. Gmelin), 
Gautiera (Rafinesque), Gaulthiera (Reichenbach), Gaulthieria 
(Klotzch). Part of the orthographical difficulty turns on the 
name of the botanist whom the name commemorates. Was it 
Gaulthier or Gautier (vide gran l.c.)? If the former, then 
Reichenbach’s spelling would seem to be in the most classical 
form ; if the latter, then Ra ug s would seem to deserve that 
mention. As to the trivial name, if itis (as appears to be the 
case) merely a native word, then the Mnean Rules would demand 
« shallon” and not “Shallon.”—C. E. M 
{With regard to the spelling of Sumani, there can be no 
doubt that this was the original form: it appears thus in Nova 
Plantarum Genera a Diss. 1751, p. 20) with the note, ‘ Dixit 
plantam Cl. Kalm mius a D. D. Gaulthier, Medico Canadensi, 
Botanico eximio.’ This sh disposes of Lindley’s doubt (I.c.) 
as to whether the plant was named “after one Gaulthier, the 
author of an Introduction ae Botany, eublighed in 1760, or 
(after) Gautier, a French writer upon ones History, about the 
same period.” In face of this doubt, seems strange that 
Lindley should consider See he represents neither 
of the names as he spells them (do they really represent different 
persons ?)—‘ the proper ea a daeannd ss the , word.” mae do 
either represent the name of the man commemorated—a matter 
in which the founder of the fies aR equally at feule—Fot that 
tands upon the title-page of his ws Roa ad la 
poms 8 des Plantes, Avignon and Paris, 1760) as Gauthier. 
n any case, it would appear endesirable to alter the accepted 
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ates the Comt 
Chinchon; and it m may be doubted whether the substitution of 
Kentranthus for Centranthus will meet with general acceptance, 
= ough there is no question as to its being is earlier, as we 
s the more correct, form. An example of rrection which 
c 8 enience is the substitution a ” Wheedalias for 
the generally accep + and original spelling Teesdalia—this in 
esis By: rt. 25, Recommendation IVa, and in analogy 
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ODORATA. ‘The valavbaa to Agrimonia odorata 
Ges "Bot. 1915, p. 246) reminds me that in July I found 
this handsome plant i in desis different places in North eee. 
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neighbourhood of haxberhouss on Mendip. | On revisiting the 
spot for more mature specimens, I came across a be ‘quantity 
