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ccd by the merit of their owners, and it is allowable to 

 model them into grace as much as possible. Tlius the 

 elegant Tournefort made Gundelia from Gundelschei- 

 mer ; which induced me to choose GoodeniUy for my 

 much honoured and valued friend Dr. Goodenough, 

 though it has, when too late, been suggested that Goode- 

 7iovia^ might have been preferable. Some difficulty has 

 arisen respecting French botanists on account of the ad- 

 ditional names by which their grandeur, or at least their 

 vanity, was displayed during the existence of the mon- 

 archy. Hence Pittojiia was applied to the plant conse- 

 crated to Pittoa de Tournefort ; but Linuceus preferred 

 the name by which alone he was known out of his own 

 country or in learned language, and called the same 

 genus Tournefortia. Thus we have a Fontainesia and 

 a Loidchea, after the excellent Louiche Desfontaines ; 

 but the latter proving a doubtful genus, or, if a good one, 

 being previously named Pteranthus, the former is es- 

 tablished. We have even in England, 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 Koenig, is totally 

 inadmissible on any pretence whatever, and the genus 

 which bears it must have a new appellation. In like 

 manner my own Humea, Exot. Bot. t. 1, has been call* 

 ed in France Calomeria after the present Emperor, by 

 the help of a pun, though there has long been another 

 genus Bonapartca^ which last can possibly be admitted 

 only in honour of the Empress, and not of her consort, 

 who has no botanical pretensions. Our own beloved 



