SPECIFIG NAMES. 381 



LathritaPhehjpcca, and Bartsia Gymnandra; 

 which may also be practised when a plant has 

 -been celebrated, either in botanical, medical, 

 or any other history, by a particular name, 

 as Origanum DictamnuSy Artemisia T)ra- 

 cunculus^ Lauriis Cinnamonium, Seliiium 

 Carvifolia, Carica Fapai/a. In either case 

 the specific name stands as a substantive, re- 

 taining its own gender and termination, and 

 must begin with a capital letter ; w hich last 

 circumstance should be observed if a species 

 be called after any botanist who has niore 

 particularly illustrated it, as Cortusa Mat- 

 thioli and C. Gmelini, Duranta Phtmierii, 

 and Mntisii. The latter jrenus su2:2:ests an 

 improvement in such kind of names. The 

 genitive case is rightly used for the person 

 who founded the genus, D. Flumierii ; D. 

 Mutisiana might serve to commemorate the 

 finder of a species, while jD. ElUsia implies 

 the plant which bears it to have been once 

 called Ellisia. 



There is another sort of specific names in 

 the genitive case, which are to me absolutely 

 intolerable, though contrived by Linnaeus in 

 his latter days. These are of a comparative 



