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Another example of ‘‘ making a man say what he has not said” 
may be found in “ Lepidopetalum (Bl.) tenax Benth.” (Proc. B.S. 
Vict. xix. 41), as to which I transcribe Prof. Ewart’s note in full :— 
“Specimens of Lepidopetalum australis F. v. M., MS., collected 
by ill at Moreton Bay, were sent to Kew Me returned marked 
‘genus correct, species not at Kew.’ On further examination they 
were found to be identical with specimens named Ratonia tenax 
Benth. by seen 2 hota wie from the same locality and 
collector. The spec therefor , becomes Lepidopetalum tenax 
Benth., for which Dupanias tenax ks Cunn., Ratonia tenax Benth., 
and Le pidopetalum australis F. vy. M. are synonyms.’ 
3) 
Benthat s name is attached to a combination of which he never 
heard, for it is here first published, and which he would certainly 
not have sanctioned, for in their Genera Plantarum he and Sir 
Joseph Hooker sink the genus in Ratonia, under which emt 
(Fl. Austral. i. 461) places the plant. Nor is the new combin 
likely to find acceptance, for Radlkofer (Pflanzenfamilien iii. 7" 
349) blades the Australian plants referred to Ratonia under a new 
ice Toechima—a fact which Prof. Ewart has apparently over- 
looked. 
One more instance of creation—and that assuredly not on the 
ground of “ intimate investigation of structure and properties,” for 
Prof. Ewart has never seen the plant—may be cited: it appears 
under the Pisaclt “ Tysonia phyllostegia F. v. M. = Swinburnia 
: » eT hi 
prior epee name of Tysonia Bolus, Boraginacea, represented b 
one African species. Mueller’s name therefore may be replaced 
od 
the ser t Minister of Agriculture to botanical 
research” (Proc ae Soc de xx. 85, 1907). It would be difficult 
to imagine a more flagrant example of making a man say what he 
could not have said ; but the a of attributing to F’. v. Mueller 
a name created eleven years after his death does not seem to have 
caeaieec ¢ o Prof. Ewart 
An dHdastrabte innovation which has Prof. Ewart’s sanetion 
both - theory and in practice is the publication of “ provisional ” 
ve bee 
speci The late J. G. 
to axhibit at the meetings of the Victoria Field Naturalists’ Club 
plants which he considered and named as new, but of which he 
published no description. Such names are of course entitled to no 
recognition and should not be quoted, but Prof. Ewart takes them 
up, as we have seen in the case of Azzoon glabrum, and publishes 
Xxiii. 
June 1906) This announcement i al ely precedes a deserip- 
tion of “ dhijtishon turrifera, n.sp.?” and follows one of “ Aren 
