CENT. V. 



appear to neglect my improvements in Genera 

 and families. They may apply to themselves 

 every one of the deflects and contradictions 

 that I have thus exposed, and then endeavour 

 to avoid them. 



I shall conclude by the remarks of Lindley 

 on the Genus Aslfr, which he states in the 

 18th vol. of I3;)t. Reg. to have been the dis- 

 grace of Bo/ajilsts by imperfect descriptions, 

 unscientific arrangement, false species, confus- 

 ed synonymy, and multiplied names, till the se- 

 cond rectified monograph of Nees. Those re- 

 marks apply equally well to 100 other Linnean 

 Genera, and this work is a perpetual comment 

 on such disgraceful general blunders of many 

 Botanists to this very day. 



FLORA TELLURIANA. 

 Centuria V. 



Number 40l. Polygonum L. auct. Nearly all 

 the botanists acknowledge that this Linnean 

 Genus is absurd ; even Lindley says it ought to 

 be divided : Adanson and Necker partly did 

 so, but their useful labors were neglected. I 

 now mean to revise the whole, and rectify or 

 estabhsh 20 Genera out of it ; all perfectly plain 

 and distinct : the linneists may vince and evade, 

 but this must be done at last. My labor dates 

 of 1815, my true Polygonum Raf will have, 

 Calix 5partito equal, Stam. 8, internis 3 fertiles, 

 Ovar. li gonum, l^tylis 3. Semina trigona, cal. 

 vestita. — This includes P. avicularis^ tnariti- 

 mum, setosnni, bellardi, ^lauctim, erectum, 

 serratuni, teniie, and all similar sp. with axilla- 



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