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figured in the Botanical Repository and in the Botanical Magazine, and described in 

 Hortus Keweusis, under that name ; but .hanged in the Paradisus to Caslalia magnijka. 

 Thus the following names have to be added to the list : — 



9. N. pygmsea = C. pygmaea. 

 10. N. rubra == 0. magnifica. 



In Rees's Cyclopœdia, which was commenced in the year 1802, and completed in 

 1819, consisting of forty-five heavy quarto volumes, consequently a larger work than 

 even our present Encyclopaedia Britannica, Salisbury's new generic name Caslalia was 

 adopted in the early part of the work, and formed the title of an article in Vol. VI, in 

 which the several species were fully described. The author or authors of that article 

 (probably either Dr. Woodville or Rev. Mr. Wood, or both, who are credited in the 

 preface as having supplied the botanical articles in the earlier volumes) recognised the 

 propriety of separating the Water Lilies into two genera, but, while adopting the name 

 Caslalia, disapproved strongly of the principle upon which it had been selected, and the 

 false analogy upon which it was founded, as alike adverse to philosophical precision, 

 truth, and delicacy of sentiment. 



The descriptive and technical portions of Salisbury's paper are in Latin. His reason 

 for selecting the name Caslalia is given in these words :— " Quasi ob pudicitiam, uterum 

 totum petalis occultant species hujus generis ; itaque Castalias dixi." The authors of 

 the Cyclopœdia article evidently thought the comparison a fanciful and oiFensive one ; 

 they say : " We have adopted Mr. Salisbury's generic name, from a confirmed unwilling- 

 ness to change any name once given, unless urged to it by the most cogent reasons ; but, 

 at the same time, we feel ourselves constrained to add that we cannot concur with that 

 excellent botanist in the principle on which he has been induced to choose it, no 

 less adverse to philosophical precision and truth than it assuredly is to moral purity, 

 and to that delicacy of decorum, which is one of the best characters of a rightly 

 cultivated mind." 



In this Rees's Cyclopaedia article, which has been entirely overlooked by writers on 

 the subject, both in England and America, the unnecessary changes introduced by Salis- 

 bury in the specific names are rectified by reinstating the original ones and conjoining 

 them with the new generic term. 



In a subsequent volume (XXV) of the same work, these plants are again described 

 in article Nymphjea. It is understood that all the botanical articles from letter C, in 

 the Cyclopaedia, were written by Sir J. E. Smith ; ' an allusion to his " Prodromus Flora) 

 Graecae " bears direct evidence that this article was from his pen, and it is so quoted in 

 DeCandolle's Prodromus. In this second article, the generic name Caslalia is discarded 

 and Nymphœa substituted (the Yellow Water Lilies being described in another article 

 in the same volume under the generic name Nuphar). The following list will show the 

 names under which the several species are respectively described in the two articles 

 referred to ; the arrangement and numbering are adjusted, as far as practicable, to cor- 

 respond with the lists preceding in the present paper : — 



' See English Cycloptedia, Biography, article : Smith, Jambs Edward. 



