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GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY, 
On NOMENCLATURE.—“ I think it is about time that the notion 
that a species must necessarily be named after some peculiarity 
that it possesses, should pass into the limbo of exploded ideas.” 
This passage, in the article “ Walks Round San Francisco,” in 
the NATURALIST, December, 1878, page 791, induces me to 
