152 T. Holm — Studies in the Cyperacece. 



which heretofore lias been overlooked or, perhaps better, been 

 entirely ignored. 



The study of the old authors requires much more than a 

 superficial determination of their herbarium-specimens, and no 

 such research should ever have any bearing upon our knowl- 

 edge of the old masters, their methods of describing, of pre- 

 serving their plants, etc. We hope that the few points we 

 have discussed in the present paper will be instrumental in sug- 

 gesting to the systematists the exercise of greater care in 

 accepting new names or combinations as are offered by writers, 

 who have demonstrated their incompetency in studying the 

 old herbaria and interpreting the literature. There seems, so 

 far, no reason to reject C. Buxbaumii Wahlbg. and Kobresia 

 caricina Willd., and the same result would, no doubt, be 

 reached if we submitted most of the other new combinations 

 to a similar treatment. 



Brookland, D. C, October, 1902. 



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