ENGLISH ESTATE FORESTRY 101 
be considered as duly published—and in subsequent volumes some 
further plates, To illustrate Mgr. Léveillé’s method of nomen- 
clature we may instance his treatment of a plant he calls O. Man- 
doni, which he names, in 1898 for the first time, on one of these 
figures (which are not numbered). In his monograph he states it 
is the same as O. Pune O. Kuntze, which was also published in 
1898. He therefore relinquishes both names and rechristens the 
plant O. Kuntze ae oan practice of giving names to plants 
already ee or more which are perfectly satisfactory 
onl ) less and enti ssa 
Peacpents: ind is fortunately not likely to be widely adopted. 
is 1 only departure from recognized custom: under 
O. torulosa Lév. are placed a large number of synonyms; it seems 
difficult to understand why all of these are rejected in favour of a 
new name, and the author gives no explanation 
Mgr. Léveillé’s main divisions of the genus depend, for the most 
part, on characters drawn from the fruit, and are—i. Scutiformes; 
li. Nuciformes; iii. Laterniformes; iv. Siliquiform rmes; v. Prismati- 
formes. He thus departs from.the classification adopted by Dr. 
Sereno Watson in his paper on the Extra-tropical North American 
species, where the principal divisions sepa largely on the character 
of the stigma. His collaborator, M. Ch. Guffroy, is responsible for 
bundles, and an elaborate account of the different character of the 
hairs, with numerous illustrations. 
have given the matter the necessary pea Ng For instance, 
J P 
in Bull. Géogr. Bot. viii., are reduced in his subsequent monograph 
to synonyms of O. hirta Link. _ The monograph is srg illus- 
trated ; , which are 
by no means satisfactory, and are not numbered, are by M. Bellotti; 
the drawings of herbarium specimens by M. Gonzalve de Cordoné; 
and the drawings of fruits by M. Acloque. The Sat aol sae 
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