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Carices as of W. Boott, not of Boott, or confusion wil aris e. 
u 
bringing together the scattered descriptions of genera and species 
from the reports, separate papers, catalogues, and tate: als in 
which they have appeared, we shall appreciate as it deserves this 
complete and tere 5 pe oor account of the Botany of “Cali. 
fornia. bes ia that Dr. Watson will now have time and oppor- 
unity t his yet more generally useful work, the 
 Bibliographi¢él Fates to North American Botany,’ of which we 
oat await the completion 
‘ Flora of British India,’ as boeewar ) in the part before 
us, is peculialy aes to criticism upon points of nomenclature, 
—as Mr. Jackson has 
a 
above by Desfontaines (who called it Sonchus “eye the 
ecific name of L. onergea dates back to Linneus (who called 
it Chondrilla nudicaulis), and so on. A yet worse form of this 
erroneous mode of citation is the following :—‘ C [repis] oer 
Dene in Jacq. Voy. Bot., 99, t. 107 (Prennthes, not of Clarke. 
: C. Hookeriana, Pies Comp. Ind., Future authors 
will of course < C. Hookeriana, ©. B. ec which ¢ dates from 
Hook. ¢ 
rear Saiahes of erroneous citation occurs on the opening 
page (p. 198) of se on ries «< §[aprosma] ternatum, Hook. f., 
nm Gen. PL iy 7 There are two errors here; in the first 
enus Saprosma, but without specific name. To this p 
Fackso hn already called aires pee Secondly, although it 
, we believe, quite true tha . D, Hoo 
Pobinies for the ‘ Genera,’ we oid no "published statement to this 
