80 : BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE. 
Doniana, 8m.,” will not do; did not Smith call it Grimmia Don- 
miana? See ‘Fl, Britannica,’ vol. iii., p. 1198 (1804), so that the 
specific name even is not true; Bruch and Schimper published 
their genus Seliyeria years after Smith’s death. 
Barbula unguiculata, Dill.,” is terrible, far worse than to 
Brit.;’ did not Wilson write the ‘Bryologia Britannica’ as 
Schimper did the ‘ Bryologia Europea’ ? both “ Schpr.” (for anim- 
adversions on this way of shortening authorities see belo ) 
‘5 : 
“¢ Conocepnaus, Necker (1790). Hepatica, Mich. 1741; Fega- 
tella, Raddi, 1818). .... 3. [C.] conicus, L.” Linneus seems 
Sm.,” for Smith, considering the generic name as neuter, wrote 
lanceolatum, and if we use his name we must do so too. 
last example shall be the most recent ; on page 85 of the 
number of this Journal for February, 1881, there is a description 
of “ Lejeunea ulicina, Tayl.” Taylor, as shown in the very next 
line, termed it a Jungermannia. 
this sentence reads as if anarchy having reigned so long, laws need 
not now be obeyed; but I do not take this to be its meani I 
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genus to ay 
retained as a sort of help to the memory ; in fact, greater tenderness 
