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monarchy. Hence Fittonla was applied to the plant 

 consecrated to Pitton de Tournefort ; but Linnaeus 

 preferred the name by which alone he was known out 

 of his own country, or in learned language, and called 

 the same genus Tourntfortia, Thus we have a Fon- 

 tainesia and di Louie hea, after the excellent Louiche 

 Desfontaines ; but the latter proving a doubtful genus, 

 or, if a good one, being previously named Pteranthus, 

 the former is established. We have even in England, 

 by a strange oversight, both Stuartia and Butca after 

 the famous earl of Bute ; but the former being long 

 ago settled by Linnasus, the latter, since given by 

 Koenig, is totally inadmissible on any pretence what- 

 ever, except perhaps in memory of the late marchi- 

 oness, to whom our gardens are indebted. In hke manner 

 my own Humea, Exot. Bot. t. 1, has been called in 

 France Calomeria after the late emperor, by the help 

 of a pun, though there has long been another genus 

 JBonapartea, which last can possibly be admitted only 

 in honour of the divorced empress, and not of her 

 former consort, who has no botanical pretensions. Our 

 own beloved sovereign could derive no glory from 

 the Georgia^ of Ehrhart ; but the Stir lit zia of Aiton 

 stands on the sure basis of botanical knowledge and 

 zeal, to which I can bear ample and very disinterested 

 testimony. 



Linnaeus, in his entertaining book Critica Botanica, 



* Tetraphisof\lQ(\W\^, and Engl. Bot. 1. 1020. 



