233 LEAFLETS. 



2. " It is only from the fourth and the last lines of the diag- 

 nosis that any clue can be had." Very far from the truth. 



3. "Supposing that Necker had the first edition of Linnaeus' 

 Species Plantarum, there are in it but two species of Rubus with 

 simple leaves, R. odoratus and R. Ghamaemorus." Also untrue. 



4. "Rubus Ghamaemorus has many pistils and many drupelets." 

 Not so ; for out of the 12 Linnaean Eubi, 9 have many drupelets, 

 3 from very few to few, and Ghamaemorus is one of these ; not 

 rarely with only 5 or 6 drupelets, though these few are large. 



5. " Necker must, therefore, refer to this [second] edition, or 

 else to the third, which is practically identical." Certainly a 

 most queer proposition to follow upon the very heels of the men- 

 tion of Dalibarda, which Necker could never have quoted from 

 any edition but the first ! That proves that he had the first 

 edition and quoted it. In it R. odoratus has precedence over 

 both R. Ghamaemorus and Mohiccanus, which latter we are told 

 is not in that first edition ! 



6. " Or else to some edition of the Systema, perhaps the 12th 

 or 13th. In either case the problem becomes much more com- 

 plicated, because in all of these there are not less than four 

 species of Rubus with simple leaves." All this not worth the 

 space it takes in Torreya and here, since it is all deduction from 

 quotations 2 and 3, both of which I here again pronounce utterly 

 truthless. Mr. Eydberg will have to concede that all ground of 

 bibliographic complication is forever removed, when he finds 

 that in that book, glanced at all too hurriedly, all the simple- 

 leaved Eubi hold places, odoratus the highest and Moluccanus 

 the last and lowest. 



7. "£. Chamaemorus, * * certainly intended by Necker as 

 a part at least of his BosseMa." Wholly unwarranted statement. 

 The character definitely excludes it. 



8. R. chamaemorus, * " the European species best known 

 at the time." Wholly irrelevant ; because Ghamaemorus can 



