816 INDEX KEWENSIS. 
Again, Mr. Jackson appears to alter the termination of his names 
when it seems to him oe ~~ = his explanation, I am 
inclined to demur to t H the species of Anantheria a 
eminine the masc ; 
and, from a ipanptiaal point of view, 1 think each name should 
akes, h 
* Nuttalianus G. evar Ante of Fina es a **numilis Nutt.,” 
in place of oo as Mr. Jackson would have written it, 
milus. The right name for this plant, by the way, is Podostigma 
pubescens. 
ris. in 
Areb. iv. 13 (1868) (= der maenty oaloiaaany4 is Phen and the waishh 
sed form, Amerinnum (for Amerimnon), finds no place: few misprints 
erides shibatianum is one (for Shibatitiana, itself a misprint for 
Thibdtstianes) : ; Bassia sem sg (for Motleyana) is another; and 
Cardamine Heyneana should be Hayneana: and very few failing 
cross-references, such as ‘‘ Decaneurum inate = Centratherum 
Jrutescens,” &@ name not to be found under Centratherum. Some- 
times, in the absence of explanation, I find citations which I do 
not understand, such as ‘‘ Bursa-pastoris, [Tourn n.| Rupp. Fl. Jen. 
77 (1745) "for, so far as I can read, Rupp’s genus was Bursa; he 
ogo botanists, and more than once denounced by Mr. Jackson. 
am I convinced that “Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant.,” as an 
iuthontty for species, is correct in most of the cases in which Mr. 
Jackson (following Kew use) employs it. Occasionally non-existent 
names are quoted, such as ingen Warmingti, Mr. Jackson prints 
ieges mayrne Cogn. in Mém. Com. Acad. Belg. 8vo. xxvii. 
(1827) 21—Bras 
Warmingia Cogn, le 
Even the most advanced neo- ekivariied nomenclaturist would shrink 
from naming two species thus similarly on the same page; and the 
latter, as I me said, does not exist in M. Cogniaux’s paper. 
the pe (ath practice of rah Hohe all such names with a small 
initial; the Kew Bulletin takes a middle ¢ course, spelling nouns 
with a capital and adjectives with a small initial--Carsoni and 
tanum, Except when alterations of this kind ensure con- 
formity with general practice, they are fidgetty and useless; the 
