equally a stranger to it; and I suspect some mistake on the 
part of Mr. Lambert's gardener. In fact, it appears to be 
the CE. humifusa of Nuttall, a species originally discovered 
on the sea-coast near Cumberland Island in Florida, by 
Dr. Baldwin. When exposed to much light its flowers are 
a very pale delicate flesh colour, but if they are made to 
expand in a cool shady place, such, for instance, as a sitting 
room with a northern aspect, they acquire the beautiful pink 
of the accompanying plate. 
The genus (Enothera has lately been the subject of what is called 
a revision, by one Mr. Spach, a E Botanist resident at Paris. 
This writer appears to pe to that school which takes for the fun- 
damental article of its faith, the belief that an occasional subversion 
of the established nomenclature of the best known parts of syste- 
matie Natural History, is the surest way—not to advance the science 
ut—to carve out a great reputation for themselves; who think it 
far more pleasant to see their own names attached to a plant, than 
the name of its discoverer; who have a happy knack of appropri- 
ating to themselves, by an ingenious sort of hocus pocus, the credit 
which in reality belongs to others, and who contrive, by what they 
are pleased to call remodelling a genus, to push themselves into 
what the uninitiated imagine to be the high places of science. One 
of the first gentlemen who took up this trade in Botany was, I think, 
a certain Mr. Schreber, who, by changing all the generic names of 
the plants collected in Cayenne by Fusée Aublet, succeeded for a 
time in getting to himself the credit of the unfortunate Frenchman's 
discoveries. So meritorious an example was not likely to want 
imitators, and accordingly, from that day to this, the world has 
been occasionally afflicted by the visitations of scientific putters-to- 
rights, who have bedizened and bedecked poor Botany after such a 
fashion, that her nearest friends cannot recognise her, and can 
hardly believe her to be the same science, whose acquaintance they 
have been cultivating all their lives. Mr. Spach is no unworthy dis- 
ciple of this `“ philoseautic” school, as I now proceed to shew. 
Most people who know any thing of Botany are acquainted with 
such plants as (Enothera macrocarpa of Pursh, (E, biennis of Linneus, 
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