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not specify any of the results, except to indicate the author's 
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tham concludes that this small group, however well defined, ought 
not in a general view to be regarded as of higher grade than one 
of the primary divisions, or tribes, of Huphorbiacee. We are not 
the less pleased with this that we quite expected it. 
wider interest will be felt in Mr. Bentham’s eaxcursus 7 
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or other groups for study or reference, not the glorification of bot- 
anists; and secondly, that changing an established name 18 very 
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now frequently ignored. . . . . The law of priority 1s an 
excellent one; and when a genus or species has been well defined 
sequently been neglected, and the plant became known undet 
other names, it is well that the original one should be restored. 
. . . . On the other hand, it creates nothing but confusion to 
suppress a generic name, well-characterized and universally 
adopted by long custom, in favor of a long-forgotten one, vaguely 
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