Why should the ‘Dragon-tree’ have a name at all? Assuredly one of ‘nomenclatorial permanency’ is impossible for it, for the thing is not a recognizable species. Dr. Knowlton's note on the ‘Dragon-tree’ (ante) is an illustration of the application of the strict laws of nomenclature regardless of common sense. The object of my paper (Geol. Mag., Dec. V, Vol. VIII, pp. 55–9, 1911) was to show that the plant for some time called Benstedtia is not a genus in the true sense of the word at all, as it is merely a bit of the woody trunk of One of the higher Conifers. So much Dr. Knowlton accepts—and then discusses its name in the same fashion as is used for true species.