488 Remarks on the Spring of 1833. 



A botanical correspondent long since sent us an essay 

 on the convenience and advantage which would result from 

 rendering the names of the natural orders uniform in their 

 termination, and those of the divisions of the orders uniform 

 among themselves too, although distinct in termination from 

 the names of the orders. He proposed that the orders should 

 end in acece, and the divisions of them in inece, and that as 

 much as possible of the generic term which might be selected 

 as the root of the name chosen to represent either the order, 

 or the division of it, should be retained to precede and co- 

 alesce with the above terminations. Our correspondent has 

 argued, that by this mode one would know, at sight or sound, 

 not only whether an order, or a division of one, were spoken of, 

 but also the genus which was typical of the order, or the division 

 of it, mentioned. The essay states, that the names of the orders 

 " terminate indifferently in les, des, anece, inecc, omece, elece, 

 ulece, orece, idece, thece, chiece, chece, rece, onece, riece, ince, &c, 

 besides acece which is here maintained to be the proper ter- 

 mination : and this incongruity of nomenclature is preserved 

 without any reason or apparent necessity. The names of the 

 suborders are liable to the same objection of nonconformity 

 with each other : for example, ece, iece, idece, inece, ince, &c, 

 besides acece the legitimate property of the primary orders, 

 are their adopted terminations; thus rendering it impracti- 

 cable for those persons who have not a great stock of hard 

 terms at command, to know, when they hear or see any of 

 these names, whether it be the name of an order or of a sub- 

 division." As the essayist has not affixed his name to his 

 essay, we cannot quote it in conjunction with these his remarks. 

 Dr. Lindley, in his just published Nixus Plantarum, noticed 

 in p. 505. of the present Number, has designated all his groups 

 of orders by terms which correspond in ending uniformly in 



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Art. III. Remarks on the Spring of 1833. 



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We have had again, this year, another very late spring, 

 after an unusually mild and open winter. This occurrence, 

 having taken place now two years in succession, makes me 

 almost begin to doubt whether (contrary, certainly, to what 

 d priori we should be led to expect) a backward spring is not 

 to be looked for as the usual consequence of a mild winter. 



I have said that the spring of 1833 was a very late one; 



