Mr. Brown, on the Proteacee of Jussieu. 37. 
If Gertner had not described the. pLumura of Protea ar- 
gentea, I should not have hesitated to assert that it was inconspi- 
cuous in the whole order. best = 
The number of coryızDons when more than two is a circum- 
stance of little importance. In Persoonia, the only genus of the - 
orderin which a plurality of cotyledons has been observed, I 
am not even certain that their number is constant in those 
‚species in which this anomaly occurs. , 
In the following part of this. essay it may be observed, that , 
the genera into. which I have subdivided the great African fa- . 
mily Protea, are in most cases similar to those already proposed . 
by Mr. Salisbury in the Paradisus Londinensis: from that 
essay however they are certainly not derived, but before its 
publication were formed and submitted to the judgment of 
Mr. Dryander, at whose suggestion they are now offered to the 
Society. "That the results of an.examination conducted by two 
observers wholly independent of each othei, are so similar, will 1 
probably be considered as some proof of their correctness. ` 
. As Mr. Salisbury’s generic names have the unquestionable right 
of priority of. publication, I have in most cases adopted them, — 
though I wish some of them had been differently constructed. - 
But as I cannot accede to his application of the Linnean 
. names Protea and Leucadendron, I shall here, that I may not 
disturb the following arrangement, assign my reasons for differing - 
from him in this respect; and as in so doing I am obliged to 
trace the progress of Linnzus's knowledge of the family, I per- 
suade myself that this will in some degree compensate for the. 
otherwise unwarrantable length of the discussion... 
. The name Pnorza, which originated with Linnzus, first oc- | 
curs in the folio edition of his Systema Naturs published in + 
1735; 
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