A PLEA FOR MY 1787 PROPOSAL 47 
Melling, Borwick, and Ease Gill, 1888, a — F. pratensis Huds. 
Near Cowkins, Lowe er Hindburn, 1887, Wi 
Agropyron caninum Beauv. Side of Dick Beck, pci L. Petty. 
Between Wray and Lower Salter, 1887, Wi. — A. pung &. 
Schult. = littorale Reichb. Bare, F. A. L. Picea, Glasson, 
Preesa 1, & 
ort murinum L. Preston Docks; 1899, Wh.—H. maritimum 
Huds. Near Lytham, 1883, Wi. 
a unilaterale Bory. Windy Clough, Glougha Scarr, 
1881, Geo. Sta 
idan a marinum Li, On the coast of the North —_ 1884, 
and since, Wi. We deem it prudent to withhold exact locality. 
Cystopteris fragilis Bernh. var. dentata Hook. Leagram, F. S 
t Polystichum lobacum Presl. Hodder Banks, F.S.!, and else- 
where.— P. angulare Presl. Buck Banks, Leagram, 
: tPhegopteris Dryopteris Fée. Dean Brook, &c., F. 8. Hina- 
urn, 
+ Botrychium Lunaria Sw. Gare Wi. 
Equisetum hyemale L. Bank of Lune, near Halton, 1899, Wi.— 
E. variegatum var. arenarium Newm. St. Annes and South Shore. 
piss A PLEA FOR MY 1737 PROPOSAL. 
By Dr. Orro Kunrzz. 
In the last number of this Journal its Editor opposed to my 
new proposal that the 1787-starting-point be valid for genera, 1758 
for species, with future exclusion of all intermediate works, as being 
arbitrary and directed against Linneus’ Corollarium 1787, Genera 
P mistake. of 1742, and his ee of 1740 and 1748. But that is 
& mi 
exclude ae works of Cee ; but that ace d does not touch 
me at all, for I Shoronghly worked up the nomenclature of these 
na o 
who begin with 1758 and neglect thereby all these works of 
Linnzus. By my proposal to exclude further mbaraetals a orks 
between 1737 and 1753 I only intended to make a concession to 
the numerous botanists a like to exclude the works of Rumphius, 
of Burmann (1787, 17 38) and other contemporaneous sub of 
under ‘ous = in his Flora Daianien, P- igs 240, under 
this — does (he does — ae oxalnding all works peioes 
