A species placed upon 

 tern from native samples in 



/ 



records of the vegetable sys- 

 the Lambertian Herbarium 



collected by Dr. Hamilton in Nepal. We have preferred 

 the original name to that in the " Regni Vegetuhilis Systema 

 Generate " &c. &c.: a work where the universal enumeration 

 of the V( 



need 



getation of no less 



globe 



panied by the differential and 



racters with a full synonymy of each species; but in his 

 wild career the historian has stopped short at the history of 

 not miicli more tlian a dozen of Linnseus*s genera and one 

 of the narrowest classes of his system. The botanic world 

 was roused with the noise of this undertaking (actually 



pets) 



m 



d opened at Geneva by the sound of drums and 



ly ten .years ago; since which period two 

 o vohimes have been ushered amongst us, 

 containing insulated accounts, without beginning or end 

 (or monographs according to natural order), of a few Lin- 

 neean genera, together with the class Tetrudynamia, turned 

 into orders ; the whole entangled in a complex unmanage- 

 able machinery by way of natural arrangement. 



And here we suspect is the extinction of this glaring 

 phtEnomenon, intended to spread durable and universal 

 light, but which has left us in the same darkness in which 



were found.' For ourselves, we are not disappointed in 

 our expectations; the work has reached as far as they ever 

 extended; with a view subdued by age and experience, we 



we 



m igh t 



have prognosticated 



foresaw no other event. We 



better success, or conceived more hope from the annun- 

 ciation of a Supplement to some of the Linnoean Seqnences, 

 beginning with Monandria and ending in Cryptogamia: 

 sucli as a continuation of that invaluable and unrivalledly 

 useful work, " Willdenow's Species Plantarum," or even of 

 an addition to the classic f Catalogue of the Kew CoUec- 



a monument of the taste and criticism of Solan der 

 and Dryander, the worthy disciples of Linneeus, and the 

 most accomplished scholars of their age; but where in the 

 very title-page we see them robbed of the reward of their 

 emdition (and we know they received no other) to give im- 

 mortality and renown to vulgar ignorance, the names of 



tion; 



1) 



native dunces being suffered to usurp the place belonging 

 to those of the genius and talent of another land. 



Jussieu, the great luminary of his department and the 

 original framer of the soundest natural system extant, still 



