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tamen nunqiiam (jerentes. Scpala attenuata, externe ut in rachido 

 vestita, margine albo angusto excepto virescentia, juniora laxe 

 reflexa, serius suberecta fructumve amplectentia. Petala pallide 

 rubella angusta distantia, basin apicemque versus eximie attenuata. 

 Stamina demum rubella, mox erecta stylosque rubros arete 

 cingentia. 



I am glad to be able to add that Mr. Marshall has given his 

 consent to the suggestion which I now make, that this bramble 

 shall take its place in our list as Buhus glareosus Eogers & 

 Marshall. — W. Moyle Eggees. 



Specific Names ending in *' -oides." — In connection with the 

 Linnean herbarium I have lately been engaged in drawing up a 

 list of genera and species established by Carl von Linne. It is 

 well known that Linne was inconsistent in his use of capitals, so 

 I was obliged to investigate certain matters. Admitting that old, 

 that is, pre-Linnean, generic names should be spelled with an 

 initial capital, my task was to find out how many of the specific 

 names ending in oides employed by Linne were old genera, and 

 therefore to be capitalised. In Linne's Critica Botanica we have 

 a list of one hundred and five genera condemned by him for 

 ending in oides, but though he strongly reprobated the use of that 

 ending for genera, he often used it himself for " trivial " names. 

 We find he often used it when comparing the facies of a plant 

 w^ith another genus, not seldom his own genus, as, for instance, 

 helenoides, mimosoides, bryoides, proteoides, and the like. After 

 careful consideration of all the occasions concerned, I have come 

 to the conclusion that the following are all that we are justified in 

 printing with a capital letter, for in many cases it is doubtful 

 whether the old genus is referred to, or whether it is only an 

 adjective of resemblance : — 



Agrimonoides {Agrimonia) Hieracioides {Picris) 



Aloides (Stratiotes) Hypericoides (Ascyntm) 



Alyssoides [Alyssum, Clypeola) Lathyroides {Orobus, Vicia) 

 Alaternoides (Cluytia) Leontopetaloides (Leontice) 



Aynaranthoides (Axyris) Malacoides {Malope) 



Ammoides {Seseli, Sison) Nymphoides (Menyanthes) 



Asteroides {Conyza, Matricaria ?) Polygonoides [Calligonum) 

 Capnoides (Fumaria) B}iagadioloides{Crepis,Hyoseris) 



Ceratoides {Osyris) Bhamnoides (Hippopkae) 



Conyzoides {Agerat2cm, Erigeron) Scorpioides {prnithopus) 

 Coralloides {Clavaria) Sesamoides {Beseda) 



Echioides {Cerinthe, Lycopsis, Sicyoides {Cissits) 



Onosma, Picris) Telephioides {Andrachnc) 



Ficoides [Cacalia) Tithymaloides {Euphorbia) 



Possibly the most strange-looking of capitalised initials is 

 Myrrhis Odorata ; Odorata being the genus of Eivinus for the 

 plant. — B. Daydon Jackson. 



New West Australian Plants (p. 286). — I note your 

 expression of regret at having published descriptions by Mr. 

 Fitzgerald of species already published by Dr. White and myself. 



