294 hemakks on 



arvense, pratensc^ yiemorosum and sylvaticurrty Car ex 

 arenaria, iiliginosa and syhatica^ as well as aquatica-, 

 maritima, rupestris, alpina^ 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 

 Ligusticiim cormibiense is found, not only in Cornwall, 

 but in Portugal, Italy, and Greece ; Sclnvenkia ameri- 

 cana grows in Guinea as well as in South America. 

 Such therefore, though suffered to remain on the author- 

 ity of Linnaeus, will seldom or never be imitated by any 

 judicious writer, unless Trolliiis europeens and asiaticus 

 may justify our naming the third species of that genus' 

 lately broughtfrom America, c;;7mcc;7w^.( 118) The use of 



pared to European ones, not only genera, but species ; which to 

 us are far from being the most fanniliar objects, and by no means 

 " dextra manu notiora." It is of no use to us to have a Carex 

 ■vulpinoidea, if we have no -vulpina., or a Vibtirnu77i Lantanoides, 

 while we have no Lantana. Comparisons were formerly built 

 one upon another, so as to become exceedingly uncouth and un- 

 satisfactory. Thus from Alsine were formed jilsi?iastrum, Msin- 

 astroides, and Alsiriastriformis. The Aira MgiloJisoUles of Wal- 

 ter may be rendered, something^ nvhich resembles sojnet/iing, ivhicli 

 resembles a goat. Carex -vulpAnoidea is an equally distant rela- 

 tion of a fox 1 fafr^ef^occii:^^ '7>v^^ foJ »-/^r77z«. ^^^Cr- <■ ?n.-/; ?«-^^?^^^ 



(118) [Names derived from the native countries of plants are 

 frequent, particularly those furnished by places foreign to Europe, 

 which have been formerly visited by botanists from that continent. 

 Among the most common are Jajwnica, Sihirica, Zeylanica^ fee. 

 A great portion of North American plants bear the names Vir- 

 ginica and Canader^is. Some names of this kind are far irom being 

 the most short or harmonious. Thus we have Astranthus Co- 

 r/n7ichinensis, Limonia 3Iadag-adCarie7isis, Liliutn ICaf7i.scaicc?ite, 



