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possible. Thus the elegant Tournefort made 

 Gundelia from Guiidelscheimer ; which in- 

 duced me to choose Goodeiiia, for my much 

 honoured and valued friend Dr. Goodenough, 

 though it has, when too Lite, been suggested 

 that Goodcnovia might have been preferable. 

 Some diflicult}' has arisen respecting French 

 botanists on account of the additional names 

 by which their grandeur, or at least their 

 vanity, was displayed during the existence 

 of the monarchy. Hence Fittonia was ap- 

 plied to the plant consecrated to Pitton de 

 Tournefort ; but Linnccus preferred the name 

 by which alone he was known out of his ow n 

 country or in learned language, and called 

 the same genus Toumefortia. Thus w^e have 

 a Fontaincsia and a Louichea, after the ex- 

 cellent Louiche Desfontaines ; but the latter 

 proving a doubtful genus, or, if a good one, 

 being previously named Fterantlius, the 

 former is established. We have even in Eng- 

 land, by a strange oversight, both Stuartia 

 and Ihitca after the famous Earl of Bute ; 

 but the tormer beinsj loner aojo settled bv 

 Linnii:us, the latter, since given by Koenig, 

 is totally inadmissible on any pretence what- 



