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omission of the word Latin in Art. 37 renders Arts. 36 and 39
invalid, or at least renders their interpretation doubtful in many
cases. By means of Art. 37, it would be possible in a roundabout
way to force the acceptance of a new species according to
Congress rules without a Latin diagnosis. Further, to change
the name or authority for a new species because it had not been
published with a Latin diagnosis would be to act in flat defiance
of Art. 50, and other instances of rules who effects are difficult
to harmonise might be given.

Nomina Conservanda.—It is greatly to be regretted that the
time limit for change of name was put so far back as 1753, and
that the list of nomina conservanda was not greatly extended.
To give an instance. Anthistiria L. (Graminae), 1779, is
changed to Themeda, Forst, 1775, by Haeckel in DeCandolle's
Monograph and in Engler's Pflanzenfamilien. It is impossible
to accept any such change of a Linnean name on such slender
grounds as a four years' priority, when a name has been universally
accepted for over 120 years. Questions of general convenience
override any such claim in a case of this kind.

ACACIA ACCOLA, Maiden and Betche. Proc. Linn. Soc.
N.S. Wales, 1906, p. 734. (Leguminosae).

This appears to be a narrow-leaved and broad-fruited form of
A. neriifolia. A specimen from Bailey resembles Maiden's form
more closely as regards the fruit and the funicle of the seed, but
has the broader phyllodes of A. neriifolia. Probably the future
discovery of other intervening forms will render advisable the
reduction of this species to a variety.

ADENANTHOS CYGNORUM, Diels. Fragm. Phyt. Aust. Occid.,
p. 138. (Proteaceae).

This "species" is made to include the A. apiculata of Meissner,
and the Drummond specimens of A. sericea. The species
is, however, undoubtedly the same as A. sericea, Benth., and if
Dr. Diels had seen No. 788 as well as No. 787, he would probably
not have made this error. There can be no doubt that many
accepted species of this genus will be ultimately reduced to varieties
as the result of cultural observations, and hence great care