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A great and just complaint has arisen" in 

 my time among the cultivators of botany, 

 who found the names of many garden plants-^ 

 witli which they had long been- conversan-t, 

 altered for othcFS without any apparent cause, 

 and in many instances for the worse; as 

 Arktolochia macropliylla, an excellent and 

 expressive name, for a rery unappropriatc 

 oncy A, Sipho, For this I am obliged to^ 

 censure my much regretted and very intelli- 

 gent friend L'Heritier. When he came ta 

 England to reap the rich harvest of our un- 

 described plants, he paid no respect to the 

 generic or specific names by which Dr. So- 

 lander or others had called them, because 

 those names were not printed ; but he in- 

 dulged himself, and perhaps thought he con- 

 firmed his own importance, by contriving 

 new ones ; a factitious mode of gaining eele^ 

 brity, to which his taknts ought to have been 

 infinitely superior. Nor would it have been 

 easy to say how far this inconvenient plan 

 of innovation might have extended, had not 

 the Hortm Keweims come forth to secure 

 our remaining property.. 



I have only to add a few words respecting 



