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of ‘Bahineton’ s ‘Manual,’ the second of ‘ i te Botany,’ 
and Nyman’ s ‘ Conspectus,’ —called by a curious and repeated slip, 
“the second edition of Nyman’s ‘ Sylloge’” ‘Waa I been “48 
ec is to be thanked for the line he has Pei in the matter. 
But although much has been done in the » right direction, the 
it has been deliberately ignored. Thus , Sir Joseph adopts the 
appropriate 4 so gear stand. Thus the name Badesonlie 
Sardous Crantz, is said by Sir J. Hooker to be ‘“‘ too inappropriate,” 
—as if a little appropriateness might be prison but not too much 
of it!—and so the more recent name of Curtis is retained: he 
States ee that Cladium ae aoniciae Schrad. (Retz.) is ‘an 
older than C. Mariscus Br., and yet retains the latter. In 
r Nyman retains the name Tilia parvifolia, rejecting T. 
gaan Scop. as ‘‘ nomen incongruum,” ph rejects 
son’s name Sium er yore for Linneus’s S. angustifolium, st 
law of arte is the only possible way of sbtaining ae stil 
* Thet ae species of ng which find a place in British books must all 
different names from those usually received. Babington gives them fi sd T. inter~ 
media DG. 7. aboter et : Ehth. ., and 7. parvifolia Ehrh. For the first two Sir 
J.D. Hooker substitutes the older names T. aes 8 yllos Scop. and T. vulgaris 
Hayne; over Gus ‘hind, attra he retains eT ulmi ee has precedence, but 
this should perhaps be set aside in favour of T. Piet. ed. viii. 
to whi This name was placed by D chinese 8 asa synonym of T. pleweisies, 
i n of 7. cordata belongs, although his 
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