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possible. Thus the elegant Tournefort made 

 Gundelia from Gundelscheimer ; which in- 

 duced me to choose Goodenia for my much 

 honoured and valued friend Dr. Goodenough, 

 though it has, when too late, been suggested 

 that Goodenovia might have been preferable. 

 Some difficulty has arisen respecting French 

 botanists on account of the additional names 

 by which their grandeur, or at least their 

 vanity, was displayed during the existence 

 of the monarchy. Hence Pittonia was ap- 

 plied to the plant consecrated to Pitton de 

 Tournefort; but Linnaeus preferred the name 

 by which alone he was known out of his own 

 country or in learned language, and called 

 the same genus Tonrnefortia. Thus we have 

 a Fontainesia and a Louichea, after the ex- 

 cellent Louiche Desfontaines ; but the latter 

 proving a doubtful genus, or, if a good one, 

 being previously named Pteranthus, the 

 former is established. We have even in Eng- 

 land, by a strange oversight, both Stuartia 

 and Butea after the famous Earl of Bute ; 

 but the former being long ago settled by 

 Linnaeus, the latter, since given by Kcemg, 

 is totally inadmissible, on any pretence what- 



