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ever, and the o;enus which bears it must have 

 a new appellation. In like manner my own 

 liumea^ E.rof. Bot. t. 1, has been called in 

 France Cdlomeria after the present Emperor, 

 by the help of a pun, though there has long 

 been another genus Bonapartea., which last 

 can possibly be admitted only in honour of 

 the Empress, and not of her consort, who 

 has no botanical pretensions. Our own be- 

 loved sovereign could derive no glory from 

 the Georgia * of Ehrhart; but the Sirelitzia 

 of Aiton stands on the sure basis of botani- 

 cal knowledge and zeal, to which I can bear 

 ample and very disinterested testimony. 



Linnaeus, in his entertaining book Critica 

 Bofanica, p. 79? has in several instances 

 drawn a fancifiil analogy between botanists 

 and their appropriate plants, thus — 



Bauhhiia, after the two distinguished bro- 

 thers John and Caspar Bauhin, has a two- 

 lobed or twin leaf. 



Scheiichzeria, a grassy alpine plant, com- 

 memorates the two Scheuchzers, one of whom 

 excelled in the knowledge of alpine produc- 

 tions, the other in thi.t of grasses. 



* Tetraph'is of Hedvvig and Engl. Bot t. 10-20. 



