should not both be named in honour of the same individual, 
or of the same family. Thus, for example, the name Linnea 
must be held to commemorate both the elder and the younger 
Linneus, and it would not be allowable to establish a diffe- 
rent genus “ Linnea” in honour of the latter. It is evident 
that nothing but confusion would arise from neglecting a 
rule of such plain utility. 
* Now, in the present case, the generic name Esch- 
scholtzia has been previously appropriated to a genus among 
the Labiate, and dedicated to the memory of Eschscholtz, 
senior ; this genus has been universally received, among . 
others by Mr. Bentham, in his recent arrangement of the 
Labiate; and consequently the same name cannot be ap- 
plied with any propriety to designate a different genus of 
the order Papaveracez, in commemoration of his son Esch- 
seholtz, junior, the botanist who accompanied Kotzebue in 
his voyage round the world. It is true that we find the 
former name spelt E/scholtzia in botanical works, which ap- 
pears to make a difference between them ; but this has no 
better foundation than an ertor of the press; the two indivi- 
duals to whom the genera are dedicated standing to each 
other, as we have already remarked, in the relation of father 
and son. [t is time, therefore, that this anomaly should be 
removed from our nomenclature, and that the name should 
be preserved to the plant to which it was originally appro- 
priated. 
“The beautiful genus to which the subject of this plate 
belongs, was first discovered by Menzies in Vancouver's voy- 
age. It might, therefore, with propriety have been named 
Menziesia, had not that name been pre-occupied.” 
Unwilling as I am to become a party to change in the 
established names of plants, in consequence of the great incon- 
venience to which it generally leads, I cannot butfeel that the 
foregoing observations are unanswerable; and I have the 
more willingly acted upon them, because I anticipate little 
objection to the substitution of so harmonious a word as 
Chryseis, for the barbarous combination of conflicting conso- 
nants in the word Eschscholtzia. 
