3S8 * COMPOUND NAMES. 



botany, could scarcely give place, even to 

 its venerable prototype. On the same ground 

 only can several new generic names, used in 

 the fern tribe, be admitted. These are 

 formed out of Pteris, the established generic 

 appellation of a common Brake, with some 

 other Greek word prefixed ; as Angiopteris, 

 a Brake with a capsule, Tmesipteris, a cloven 

 Brake, and Can-opt eris a new Brake. What- 

 ever may become of the former two, I must 

 always protest against the last, given by the 

 celebrated Bergius to the Darea of Jussieu, 

 on account of its unexampled impropriety. 

 As well might any new genus, resembling a 

 Rose, be called Novarosa ; for though the 

 Greek language may assist us with regard to 

 sound, it can never make amends for a radi- 

 cal deficiencv of sense. 



