equally a stranger to it ; and 1 suspect some mistake on the 

 part of Mr. Lambert's gardener. In fact, it appears to be 

 the (E. kumifusa of Nuttall, a species originally discovered 

 on the sea-coast near Cumberland Island in Florida, by 

 Dr. Baldwin. When exposed to much light its flowers are 

 a very pale delicate flesh colour, but if they are made to 

 expand in a cool shady place, such, for instance, as a sitting 

 room with a northern aspect, they acquire the beautiful pink 

 of the accompanying plate. 



The genus GEnothera has lately been the subject of what is called 

 a revision, by one Mr. Spach, a German Botanist resident at Paris. 

 This writer appears to belong to that school which takes for the fun- 

 damental article of its faith, the belief that an occasional subversion 

 of the established nomenclature of the best known parts of syste- 

 matic Natural History, is the surest way — not to advance the science 

 but — to carve out a great reputation for themselves ; who think it 

 far more pleasant to see their own names attached to a plant, than 

 the name of its discoverer ; who have a happy knack of appropri- 

 ating to themselves, by an ingenious sort of hocus pocus, the credit 

 which in reality belongs to others, and who contrive, by what they 

 are pleased to call remodelling a genus, to push themselves into 

 what the uninitiated imagine to be the high places of science. One 

 of the first s^entlemen who took up this trade in Botany was, I think, 

 a certain Mr. Schreber, who, by changing all the generic names of 

 the plants collected in Cayenne by Fusee Aublet, succeeded for a 

 time in getting to himself the credit of the unfortunate Frenchman's 

 discoveries. So meritorious an example was not likely to want 

 imitators, and accordingly, from that day to this, the world has 

 been occasionally afflicted by the visitations of scientific putters-to- 

 rights, who have bedizened and bedecked poor Botany after such a 

 fashion, that her nearest friends cannot recognise her, and can 

 hardly believe her to be the same science, whose acquaintance they 

 have been cultivating all their lives. . Mr. Spach is no unworthy dis- 

 ciple of this •' philoseautic" school, as I now proceed to shew. 



Most people who know any thing of Botany are acquainted with 

 .such plants as QSnothera macrocarpa of Pursh, CE. biennis of Linvceus, 



