i-mUm i--kiii-ii!ho<.<l, tin' followers of whic 



tigators, but respected no author's right. 



His remarks on Robert Brown in t 



arose (Smith, Richard, Lindlev, 



Wallich, Bentham) 



marked injustice to certain other 



botanists [Sal 



yes one can say that he has four 



nled a sehool in tun 





d in ' BHgp.' " 



Section 7 treats of" different » 



inceptions of valid g 



He distinguishes and limits nam 



Inn nuda (names pi 



description.) " So long," he says 



•, "as the plant is BUl 



there is need neither of a plate no 



r of a description. ( 



nition is impossible, is the name 



s to be marked 'no 



nomen nudum, etc." Bentham ai 



id Hooker do great i 



bury by dismissing with the words ' lunaen baitum ' etc. the names of 

 valid genera founded by him ai •; - ription, but 



with reference to well known types upon which they were founded in 

 a way that left no room for doubt. On the contrary they carefully 

 protect the names in Wallich's Catalogue, the application of which, he 

 charges, is sometimes very hard to recognize. "One does not name 

 the description, but the plant, and defective diagnoses are often more 

 perplexing than none at all." 



We cannot blame Kuntze for remarking upon the injustice done to 

 Salisbury. But in this case (and it is the only one as far as I have 

 found) he departs from his customary strict interpretation of the 

 rules. Common sense is doubtless on his side. But common sense 

 -iderably according to the person applying it ; and Kuntze 

 has warned us too many times against the dighte-t relaxation of rules. 



Sections. "Name-alterations by raising sections into genera and 

 through linguistic changes," is the basis of some alterations in the 

 international rules proposed by him. The subject will be considered 

 later. 



A very interesting section is section 9, entitled " Homonymy, a 

 powerful cause ot name-alt rati n and abiding source of danger to 

 botanical nomenclature." Most of the cases of homonymy arise from 



