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not be encumbered with such names, even as syno- 

 nyms. 



When, however, solid discoveries and improvements 

 are made in the science ; when species or genera have 

 been confounded by Linnasus himself, and new ones 

 require to be separated from them, the latter must neces- 

 sarily receive appropriate appellations ; as also when a 

 totally wrong and absurd name has by mistake been 

 given, as Begonia capensis ; in such cases names must 

 give place to things, and alterations proceeding from 

 such causes must be submitted to. Thus I believe Mr. 

 Salisbury's Castalia is well separated from Nymph(ea. 

 See Amials of Botany^ v. 2. 71. 



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 Aristolo- 

 chia 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 undescribed plants, he paid 

 no respect to the generic or specific names by which Dr, 

 Solander or others had called them, because those names 

 were not printed ; but he indulged himself, and perhaps 

 thought he confirmed his own importance, by contriv- 

 ing new ones ; a factitious mode of gaining celebrity, to 

 which his talents ought to have been infinitely superior. 

 Nor would it have been easy to say how far this incon- 

 venient plan of innovation might have extended, had 



