should not both be named in honour of the same individual, 

 or of the same family. Thus, for example, the name Linnaa 

 must be held to commemorate both the elder and the younger 

 Linnaeus, and it would not be allowable to establish a diffe- 

 rent genus " LhiiKEa " in honour of the latter. It is evident 

 that nothing but confusion would arise from neglecting a 

 rule of such plain utility. 



" Now, in the present case, the generic name Esch- ■ 

 scholtzia has been previously appropriated to a genus among 

 the Labiatse, and dedicated to the memory of Eschscholtz, 

 senior; this genus has been universally received, among 

 others by Mr. Bentham, in his recent arrangement of the 

 Labiatse ; and consequently the same name cannot be ap- 

 plied with any propriety to designate a different genus of 

 the order Papaveraceae, in commemoration of his son Esch- 

 scholtz, junior, the botanist who accompanied Kotzebue in 

 his voyage round the world. It is true that we find the 

 former name spelt Mhcholtzia in botanical works, which ap- 

 pears to make a difference between them ; but this has no 

 better foundation than an error of the press ; the two indivi- 

 duals to whom the genera are dedicated standing to each 

 other, as we have already remarked, in the relation of father 

 and son. It is time, therefore, that this anomaly should be 

 removed from our nomenclature, and that the name should 

 be preserved to the plant to which it was originally appro- 

 priated. 



" The beautiful genus to which the subject of this plate 

 belongs, was first discovered by Menzies in Vancouver's voy- 

 age. It might, therefore, with propriety have been named 

 Menziesia, had not that name been pre-occupied."' 



Unwilling as I am to become a party to change in the 

 established names of plants, in consequence of the great incon- 

 venience to which it generally leads, I cannot but feel that the 

 foregoing oljservations are unanswerable ; and I have the 

 more willingly acted upon them, because I anticipate little 

 objection to the substitution of so harmonious a word as 

 Chryseis, for the barbarous combination of conflicting conso- 

 nants in the word Esclischollzia. 



