A PLEA FOR MY 1787 PROPOSAL 49 
Dr. Kuntze is in error in supposing that authoritative value 
was claimed for the 1752 edition of Linneus’s Genera Plantarum : 
our words were, ‘‘The 1752 and 1754 editions of the Genera 
Plantarum are available as informal or further assistance to clear up 
doubts.” 
names are of very high scientific interest and importance, an 
ach of them may be said generally to be worth many modern 
inconvenience or difficulty is caused by the want of generic 
definitions in the Species Plantarum; moreover, according to 
modern codes, the name of a genus does not fail merely for 
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me o en A 
Horsfieldia Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 2, p. 872, n. 1852 (1806). 
already been done, thouch it bar the future all changes of 
names dependent upon dates between 1737 and 1753; surely it 
would be best to bar such names altogether. As an illustration of 
the permission and the refusal for taking up old names, has a very 
awkward look, and throws a strong suspicion on the principle so 
treated. : 
With regard to the Paris Congress, particulars of which will 
appear in the fortheoming number of the Bulletin de la Société 
Journat or Borany.—Vou. 38. [Fxs. 1900.) E 
