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THE AJiEKICAN BOTANIST. 
Progress of Plant Protection. — The original 
Society for the Protecton ol Native Plants has more than 
doubled its membership during the past year, and now 
has a mailing-list of nearly fifteen hundred members. 
Since the Society was organized it has issued 71,000 leaf- 
lets and nearly 30,000 other notices. This is a very good 
showing toward practical plant protection. 
Puff-ball Synonomy.— In a recent publication by C. 
G. Lloyd, nearly three hundred names of puff-balls are 
given that in the author's judgement no longer apply to 
specimens of these plants. In the days when the puff-balls 
were only imperfectly known, man\- new species were 
described from insufficient material and having since 
turned out to be the same as better-known species, their 
names become synonyms. Other names in this Hst belong 
to the class of **juggled names" as the author calls them, 
in which authors, in the desire to get their own names 
after a species, have changed the plant from one genus to 
another with this end in view. Air. Lloyd has gone a 
long way toward making puff-ball nomenclature stable. 
Author Citations in Botany.— We are all famiHar 
with the custom in modern botanical literature of print- 
ing the names of one or two botanists after the scientific 
name of each plant. These authors may be regarded as 
the plant's sponsors, and if botanists can be induced to 
always print the names in this way, those whose names 
appear in such C(mnections 
immc^rtaiity. The time was 
when a single botanist's 
name after a species was suffic 
ient, but when the possi bill- 
ties of making new combinati 
ons of generic and specific 
names were realized there wa; 
^ a general rush for nt)tori- 
ety in this way until now eve 
■ry plant name that can be 
twisccd into carri.'ing a double 
load of narae-tinkerers, has 
When two names appear 
after a species, the one in pat 
•enthesis is supposed to l)c 
that of the author who really 
dcscnlicd the species, and 
that ot the author who really dcscrilicd the species, and 
the other to be the one who placed it in its pro]>cr u'enus. 
Only those authors who were lucky enough to get their 
