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A great and just complaint has arisen in 

 my time among the cultivators of botany, 

 who found the names of many garden plants, 

 with which they had long been conversant, 

 altered for others without any apparent cause, 

 and in many instances for the worse ; as 

 Aristolochia macrophylla, an excellent and 

 expressive name, for a very unappropriate 

 one, A. Sipho. For this I am obliged to 

 censure my much regretted and very intelli- 

 gent friend L/Heritier. When he came to 

 England to reap the rich harvest of our un- 

 described plants, he paid no respect to the 

 generic or specific names by which Dr. So- 

 lander or others had called them, because 

 those names were not printed ; but he in- 

 dulged himself, and perhaps thought he con- 

 firmed his own importance, by contriving 

 new ones ; a factitious mode of gaining cele- 

 brity, to which his talents ought to have been 

 infinitely superior. Nor would it have been 

 easy to say how far this inconvenient plan 

 of innovation might have extended, had not 

 the Hortus Kewensis come forth to secure 

 our remaining property. 



I have only to add a few words respecting 



