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not be put into Bossekia but by altering the published diagnosis 

 of the latter. Omit the word "European" and what is left is 

 false. E. odoratus "at the time" was known to hundreds of 

 botanists in Europe who had never seen Ghamaemorus. 



9." Should not this \_R. Moluocanus], according to Dr. Greene's 

 own interpretation, be the type of Bossekia"}" The questioner 

 concedeR that Necker in making group distinctions emphasized 

 habit ; also that R. odoratus is at least a part of BosseJcia. I 

 now answer this one question by eight questions, any one of which 

 is a severe rebuke of my respected colleague's utter recklessness 

 in writing. (1.) Can Necker be believed to have referred to the 

 same genus with R. odoratus, a blackberry pure and simple, 

 weak, straggling and prickly? (2.) Before putting his question 

 did our critic not ascertain that R. Moluccanus is a blackberry 

 pure and simple, straggling and prickly-stemmed ? (3.) Has our 

 long-time specialist in Eosaceae yet to learn of native American 

 blackberries which, as seedling plants, and up to the year of 

 their first flowering and fruiting, bear none but simple leaves, 

 then in their fuller maturity only compound leaves ? (4.) Does 

 he need from me the information that one such American black- 

 berry came to be published at first for two distinct species 

 because of this twofold appearance ? (5.) Has he looked into 

 the history of R. Moluccanus far enough to see that the earlier 

 author, from whom Linnaeus borrowed all his knowledge of it, 

 published as his type of the species an Asian blackberry with 

 leaves compound ? (6.) If so, did Mr. Rydberg not go on and 

 ascertain that the simple leaved one was made by Eumph no 

 more than a variety of the other ? (7.) Is not then the Linnaean 

 Moluccanus, after all, to be viewed as a mere younger state of 

 R. parvifolius ? (8.) Will our friend of the Torreya disputation 

 say that IS'ecker in all probability knew not these freaks of 

 blackberries ? 



This column of impeachments must end here for want of 

 time and space. But nine specifications of truthlessness indi- 

 cated from these pages of Tprreya should suffice for the present 



