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SHORT NOTES. 
_Bo OTANICAL NoMENcLATURE.—I have read with much interest the 
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practice from Linnwus downwards to a very recent date, and that to 
regard it as contrary to rules would lead to the recasting of a host of 
names in general use ; secondly, that since, logically speaking, a specific 
name consists of two words coupled together, and not of the second 
e only, as is too often erroneously stated, when the first ees 18 
fi away the whole name falls to the ground, and the one put in 
lace is necessarily a new one, and it can matter ate whether its 
component Laie felosigeee to the previous name or 
Allow me to subjoin another remark. M. de Candolle does capital 
he nat istory, when he so poin tedly s nactehed the real mean- 
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ention. The practice, as ori ginal ive by Caspar Ba ay) in his 
s to be 
brance of a second generic noun thrust ina parenthesis between the 
proper one and its following adjective.—T. Car 
Biysmus compressus 1s Herts.— —Specimens of this rare species 
have been sent to us from Dr. C. E. de Cr respigny, collected by him 
this year on Rickmansworth Common Moor in Hertfordshire 
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