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californica, Benth. & Hook. re i. 91,” and — ce pieanscwa 
Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 83,” as quoted by Sereno Wat n his 
splendid ‘ Bibliogtaphical Sadeee are simply pve of ser irertaes 
the genera Dithyrea of Harvey and Aphragmus of Andrzejowski 
not qualify them for citation as the authority for the species, 
because they have not spoken of these plants by the names under 
which they are here range 
To show ho dily errors accumulate, when sufficient 
care as to accurate citation is not forthcoming, I think the fol- 
lowing chain of instances, which Mr. Britten ~ pointed out to 
me, remarkably instructive. In the ‘Student’s Flora of the 
British Islands,’ ed. 2, at page 63, under the belie Arenaria will 
be found this statement :—< A. Cherleria, Fenzl (sub Alsine);” 
work is usually regarded as a digest of Sym edition of ‘ English 
seem kt and Sir J. D. Hooker readily siceledens his indsbtanoail 
icism. r ‘ 
p. 108, Sy aa ee Fenzl.’’ In Grenier and Godron’s ‘ Flore 
de France,’ vol. i 288, Grenier, who alone is responsible for 
that portion of ie boo I, says:—‘‘ 4. Cherlert, Fenzl,” giving 
Endlicher’s ‘ Genera ’ as the authority for that name; referring to 
the ‘Genera,’ p. 965, we find that Fenzl established the section 
Cherlerie, but named no species. Summin hate and sweeping away 
the accumulated blunders, the case cogent thu 
herleria, Fenzl, in Endl. Gen. 965. 
Alsine Cherleri, Grenier, in ten! & Godr. i. 283 (1848). 
A. Cherleria, Syme, Eng. Bot. ii. 108 (1863). 
Arenaria Cherleria, ees fil., Stud. Fl. 60 (1870). 
but somehow has missed inserting the section sign §. The 
use of parentheses is to temporarily exclude from the main 
~ at 48 manifestly wrong to speak ee “ Boswell’s edition of ‘ English 
Botany ’” (op. cit. Preface), since the surname Syme was not abandoned until 
after that work was finished. ‘he title page ao the first volume must be 
as the true authority in such cases ; we constan tly speak of Sowerby’s ‘ Botany, 
ippantly quoted Sowerby's ‘Bo tany,’” but they were right and Smith w 
wrong; he had only himself to blame in the matter. 
