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the return b essrs. Groves to Hudson’s allocation of names, 
an allocation deliberately, consistently, and almost unanimously 
rejected by the older systematists and not generally accepted 
even now, is not based on sufficient grounds. 
C. E. Moss. 
Dr. Moss has kindly given us the opportunity of reading his 
note on the Melica names. Our view of the matter is briefly 
aside. 
the “ Rules,” the whole question turns on whether 
Hora Retz. If the 
As we have pointed out in our paper on the use of Linnean 
i vy. p. 371), “most of Linnzeus’s 
to bear the names, often incorrectly, in his herbarium afford 
but little evidence of what was intended, as against that to be 
gathered from the synonymy quoted and from contemporary 
works.” 
Dr. Moss’s attempt to set up a “type” of the species on the 
description given in flora Lapponica, in spite of the quite altered 
description in Species Plantarum and the synonymy therein 
quoted, seems to us to be quite inadmissible. 
H. & J. GRovEs. 
As the Museum List of British Seed-plants is specially referred 
to by Dr. Moss, the following note by its compilers may be added. 
