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•cites as (Hedw.) Br. Eu., and very truly says that, originally this genus did not 
include any of the species which are at present placed in it, and that Schwae- 
grichen 1 was the first to place A. compactum in the genus and that therefore it 
should be “ Anoectangium Schwgr. emend Br. Eu.” Why not Schwgr. (ex 
Hedw.) emend. Br. Eu.? According to the previous ruling it should be so if 
we must be so exact and may not use Anoectangium in its original sense! This 
is not the only case in which Hedwig’s original use of a generic name has been 
completely “emended” and all his species transferred somewhere else, keeping 
only the name with the citation given exactly as if no such emendation had taken 
place! 
7. Glyphomitrium Brid. Mant. Muse. 31. 1819. 
Aulacomitrium Mitt. Trans. Linn. Soc. 3 : 161. 1891. 
M. Cardot makes three new combinations: G. calycinum (Mitt.); G. humil- 
limum (Mitt.); G. Warburgii (Broth.) and places the genus with the Orthotri- 
chaceae and not with the Grimmiaceae. 
8. The following series of citations sufficiently shows the ludicrous extent 
to which this method of citation will lead us! 
“ Campylium (Sull.) Mitt, extended by Bryhn.” 
“ Chaetomitrium Doz. & Molk. extended by Bosch. & Lac.” 
“ Cryphidium (Mitt.) Jaeg. extended by Broth.” 
( ‘ Cynodontium Sch. (non Brid. nec. Br. Eu.) emend Limpr.” 
■ 'Dicnemon Schwaegr. not Dicnemos Broth.” 
9. Didymodon also has been subjected to so many additions and substrac- 
tions that the names of the authors are “too numerous to mention.” Accord- 
ingly Monsieur Cardot says it should be cited as Didymodon (Hedw.) emend! 
10. The case of Gymnostomum is perhaps the worst of all because here the 
ll Hedwig 1801 ” date of starting for the nomenclature of mosses, leads to worse 
confusion than the earlier date. In chis case the original use of the name in- 
cluded three species in three genera; the second, fifteen species and twelve gen- 
era, so Monsieur Cardot solves the riddle by citing it as: 
Gymnostomum Smith emend, (non Hedw.) 
Gymnostomum Hedw. (1782). 
( Physcomitrium , Pottia and Pterigoneuron). 
Gymnostomum Hedw. (1801). 
{Pottia, Pterigoneuron, Schistostega, Anoectangium, Hymeno- 
stylium, Hymenostomum, Physcomitrium, Entosthodon, Drum- 
mondia, Schistidium, Weisia and Gyroweisia .) 
In this case he proposes to eliminate a bad series of puzzles by taking Hed- 
wig’s name, attributing it to a later author and emending it or using it as the 
German express it, because it is a “ freigewordenen" name. 
Such are some of the absurdities that the present efforts to see the right and 
still the wrong pursue, are leading to. 
New York Botanical Garden. 
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