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Leptospermum laevigate var. ? minns F.y.M., in B.FI., i, 
p. 103 (1866). ‘This was published by Mueller in 1856 (Mig. in 
Ned. Krudk. Arch., iv.,147) under the name Iabricia coriacea. 
The name coriacea has ten years priority over the name minus 
of Bentham, and as the plants referred to are distinct from the 
coastal forms of L. laevigata, it is proposed by the writer to 
take up the name coriacea and raise it to specific rank. 
Chiloglottis diphylla, R.Br., 1810. This was published in 
1806 by Labillardier under the name Hpipactis reflexa, there- 
fore the specific name refleca has four years. priority over 
diphylla. 
Quite a large number of similar instances of priority can 
be quoted, but space will not permit of this being done in the 
present paper; but the few cases quoted are of sufficient im- 
portance, as showing the need for a revised edition of the 
“Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales.” 
Several new combinations have already been made by Druce, 
Le., but care must be taken not to copy his list blindly, or other 
mistakes will be made. For example, the new combination in 
connection with Scaevola ramosissima (Sm.) Krause, has already 
been shown by the late Mr. Betche in this Journal (Vol. 2, p. 
158, 1912), and must not, therefore, be shown as Scaevola ramo- 
sissima (Sm.) Druce, as Krause (Pflanzenreich, 54 Heft., iv., 
277u 277a, p. 141) had already effected the new combination in 
1912. 
Other instances in which plant names must be changed are, 
those where it can be shown that a misdetermination has been 
made. For example, a common weed listed in Moore and 
Betche’s “Handbook of the Flora of New South Wales,’ p. 525, 
1893, under the name Tolpis barbata, Gaetrn., is really Tolpis 
umbellata, Bert., as already shown by Ewart, White and Rees in 
Proc. Roy. Soe. Vict., vol. xxiii, p. 114 (1910). The late Mr. 
Betche, in a note in the “National Herbarium,” states “The 
mistake originated probably with Dr. Woolls, who enumerated 
_ ff. barbata as a naturalised weed in his “Plants Indigenous to 
the Neigh. Sydney. In the same way we find the common 
“Stinking Roger” listed under the name Tagetes glandulifera 
Schrank. This should be correctly listed as Tagetes minuta. 
Mr. C. T. White, Government Botanist, of Queensland, has 
transferred Leptospermum abnorme F.v.M., to the genus Agonis. 
I do not approve of this as in my opinion it has not the true 
characters of an Agonis, as-I shall endeavour to show in a paper 
