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purpose, and especially since I find no ground of suspicion 

 that any one of those nine falsifications was made inten- 

 tionally. The misfortune of their author seems to haye been 

 the assuming that, since the day in last April when I placed 

 in his hands a Tolume of Necker opened at a certain page,' he 

 has believed himself grown competent to discuss that author 

 with safety ; whereas I after many years of occasional wrestling 

 with his terms and his taxonomy, know that I may stumble. 

 No ; my opponent has not meant those misstatements nine. He 

 has but written his name large on the list of those who 

 " rush in where angels fear to tread." 



Under no consideration can Necker have thought of placing a 

 blackberry congeneric with R. odoratus. That was a most vain 

 imagination, born of ignorance more dense than mine when I sug- 

 gested for Chamaemorus a place, in Necker, under Dalibarda- 

 I had never seen that type growing, nor knew that it is dry- 

 fruited ; otherwise I should have understood rightly that term 

 " Huda " in Necker, which he took up from Linnaeus, as I now 

 perceive. But this error of mine, which I rejoice in Mr. Eyd- 

 berg's having been able to correct, would not have been com- 

 mitted, even in my ignorance of Daliharda, had I found Cham- 

 aemorus admissible to Necker's BosseJcia, the most essential 

 character of which excludes it to a certainty. Bossehia has 

 " very many " drupelets, Rubus has from " several to 

 rather many," plures being able to bear all that breadth of 

 meaning, but no more; the "plurimi" in the Bossehia diagnosis, 

 being absolutely superlative, means it has the greatest number 

 occurring in any of these plants ; and it is true. 



Chamaemorus often has a fruit of no more than five or six 

 drupelets, very large ; Ruius of Necker, any small or moderate 

 number of them, but perhaps never more than half as many as 

 the R. odoratus average. Nor is this all. Even the calyx of 

 Rubus and Bossekia has, according to Necker, its own character 



' I had not written, as yet, a word about Bossekia : but the very name 

 was that day aew to the other party, 



