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province on the west, of which the ie es ~ oe 
Indian, is known botanically i in one valley only—the 
Afghanistan would have been premature. The flora of British 
Baluchistan ee considerably from that of any other botanical 
province of Indi 
BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE. 
I.—Proposals of some English Botanists. 
[Tuer suggestions that have been made by the pareists of ss 
countries for consideration at the Congress to be held in n 
June have been published in various periodicals ; cant te ar be of 
interest to British botanists to read those which have been sent from 
rmulate 4 
is in the main satisfactory — that only those matters were worth 
putting forward whic either smbignous or on other grounds 
open to discussion. This is is not the view of the American botanists 
who represent what is known as the ‘‘ Rochester School.” These 
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liminary y Catalogue in 1888, never hesitated to change their 
minds as to practice, if not princeton and have thus encumbered 
sees Be with a host at: pesos synonyms, have at last arrived 
at the conviction, expresse 
less than ‘‘ the aban pasate - all the articles” of the Paris Code, 
and ‘the substitution”’ of their very latest conclusions—which, it 
other 
The ‘*botanists of the Gray Herbarium” and their associates 
are less insistent; they content themselves with amendments to 
four of the Paris articles and the addition of two new ones—one of 
them, we regret to see, endorsing ‘“‘priority of place,’ which the 
Belgian and Rig botanists in their Propositions say, ‘*nous ne 
ouvons 4 aucun degré accepter.”’ With their suggestions the 
signatories of ‘the English Amendments find themselves largely in 
accord. The Gr ray Herbarium memorandum is fee by Prof. 
Farlow, Prof. Sable et Prof. Goodale, and other 
The British Museum botanists were moved i take action by 
