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arvense, pratense, nemorosum and sylvati- 

 cum, Car ex arenaria, uliginosa and sylvatica, 

 as well as aquatica, maritima, rupestris, al- 

 pina, nivalis, used for many plants. But 

 names derived from particular countries or 

 districts are liable to much exception, few 

 plants being sufficiently local to justify their 

 use. Thus Ligusticum cornubiense is found, 

 not only in Cornwall, but in Portugal, Italy 

 and Greece ; Schwenkia americana grows in 

 Guinea as well as in South America. Such 

 therefore, though suffered to remain on the 

 authority of Linnaeus, will seldom or never 

 be imitated by any judicious writer, unless 

 Troll ius europcEiis and asiaticus may justify 

 our naming the third species of that genus, 

 lately brought from America, americanus. 

 The use of a plant is often commodiously 

 expressed in its specific name, as Brassica 

 oleracea, Papaver somniferum, Inocarpus 

 edulis; so is likewise its time of flowering, 

 as Primula veris, Leucojum vernum 9 (tstivtim 

 and autumnale, and Helleborus hy emails. 



When a plant has been erroneously made 

 into a new genus, the name so applied to it 

 may be retained for a specific appellation, as 



