78 BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE. 
sentence all the words within their boundaries; the general 
sentence should be complete in ee and intention without 
reading the parenthetical portio this is the literary, the 
universal, age -eepeancad ne ea Tried by this standard, the last 
example is wofully erroneous; Oersted, in the ‘ Videnskabelige Med- 
delelser’ rok 1857, joel Pankeai insignis, which might be inferred 
from the quoted statement, but is by no means clearly set forth. 
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treating of Andreea, I object to a aes like this—‘* A. alpina 
(Dill.), Sm.” It is the dA. alpina of Smith; Dillenius gave as 
its names—‘‘ Lichenastrum alpinum atro- rubens teres calycibus 
is.” The history of the naming of the species can be 
clearly shown in the synonymy, and if the student is too lazy to 
glance even over the synonyms, @ fortiori he will not burden his 
memory with two authorities. 
Another very objectionable practice, which has only recently 
ssu inence, and should be Sxtecagemeh d at once, is 
that of altering, under the guise of amending, a e given by 
previous author, and then quoting that author as the | father of the 
changeling. This seems like the pedantic spirit breaking out in a 
new form; it is clearly a violation of — faith, so to change a 
name that even its parent would n it. Cases may occur 
where a misprint in the original si i palpabin; Juncus lampo- 
carpus, Khrh., is usually written J. lamprocarpus on this account, 
ut any such practices must be jealously watched. To propose 
the siiesdieni of Weissia to Weista, because sometimes F. W. Weiss 
omitted the second s from his name, is meré pedantry. But as 
an instance of the habit I am reprobating, take ‘‘ Andreaa cras- 
sinervis, Bruch.” Here we have a specific name which Bruch did 
sence , for on turning to his original memoir in the ‘ Abhand- 
ungen der math.-phys.-Classe,’ Miinchen, i. (1882), p. 279,* we 
find the adjective crassinervia. I k ‘that this alteration is 
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name which may be seen in nearly all British Floras——Babin 
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Denkschriften ’ in error; they ceased ke oa” » (1870), p. 460, quotes the 
