Our drawing was taken at Mr. Woodford's, at his late 

 refidence at Vauxhall, early in June. 



Jussieu calls fegments of the calyx, both the petals and 

 nectarium, as we, in conformity to Linnaeus and moll Bo- 

 tanilts, call them; Swartz confiders our petals as calyx and 

 the ne£tarium as corolla. Dr. Smith has very properly re- 

 marked that there is no end to difputes of this kind ; to us 

 the language of Linnaeus appears the moft eafily intelligible, 

 and the name of neclarium, fo offenfive to many modern 

 Botanifts, is conveniently applied to thofe parts of a flower 

 that have an anomalous form, although they mav not always 

 be organs for fecreting or retaining the honey. To avoid the 

 impropriety of borrowing a name from a function, which the 

 part does not perform, fotne botanifts have propofed to fubfti- 

 tute parapetalum for neZlarium ,• but it feems hardly worth while 

 to change an eftablifhed word, well underftood ; and indeed 

 we believe that the cafes, where theie parts are not really re- 

 ceptacles of honey or fome analogous fluid, are fewer than is 

 generally fuppofed. 



