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dana;. Still I can only hnicly toleraio such 

 names out of cJ(;f'(^i:ence to the botiinicul me- 

 rits, not thf; kjirninir, of their contrivers; 

 and I highly honour the zeal and correctness 

 of Mr. Salisbury, who, in defiance of all 

 undue authority, has ever Ojjposed them^ 

 naming Aucuha^ on account of its singular 

 base or receptacle, FjubaHu. I know not liovv 

 Pandanus escaped his reforminii, hand, espe- 

 cially as the plant has already a ^ood clia- 

 racteristic Greek name in the classical I'orstfT, 

 Alhrodactylis. 



Excellent Greek or Latin names are such 

 as indicate some striking [)eculiarity in the 

 genus : as Glijajrrhizn, a sweet root, foj the 

 Liquorice; Amarantkua, without decay, for 

 an everlasting Hovver ; lltliantliuH, a sun- 

 flowf^r ; J/ithospertnum, a stony seed ; EriO' 

 calia^^ a flower with a smgiilarly woolly base 

 or cup ; Origanum, an ornamc^ntal mountain 

 plant ; IJemerocailis, a beauty of a day ; 



* When I named this genui in Exotic Botany, f was 

 not aware of its having previously heen pubhshed by 

 M. Billardicre under the nam<j ot Actinotui ; a name 

 however not tenable in Botany, because it has long been 

 preoecupied in Mineralogy. 



