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| Esenbeck. It is a rule, no doubt, among some botanists to insist upon the retention of the first specific name that is 
| published, one erroneous may have been its reference to a particular genus : the second name being held to be 
| unchangeable whatever may happen to the i But we dispute the propriety of this plan, and refuse to acknowledge 
| -r sufficient authority for the practice, which is sometimes yy are ad generally — and not unfrequently 
| sur Nothing is more common than for an unskilful bota refer a plan a wrong genus. Another 
| لمجي‎ him, places it in its right genus, but with a new Mugs n the first ong undiscoverable on account 
| of the original blunder with which it was associated. Then comes in a third gentleman, who takes upo > oyna 1f 
| to cancel half the first genuine name in favour of half the previous inaccurate name, and thus introduces a veleum 
| into the overburthened pages of science. For example: 
| publishes in 1840 a certain Quercus lignea ; B finds the plant 
in 1842, recognises it to be a Juglans, not a Quercus, and gives ١ 
it to the world as Juceraws lamellata; then uprises C, and 
coolly changes B's name into Jue UGLANS lignea, upon the ground 
a! 
sce in 
Professor Nes von Esenbeck’s change of Klotzsch’s original name of 
Strobilorachis glabra! into S. Pa, for no better reason than that 
somebody (in t g friar) had previously 
called it Ruellia prismatica. 
533. TRIGONIDIUM RINGENS. Lindley. (aliàs Mormolyca lineolata Fenzl.) A dingy brown- 
flowered Orchid. Native of Mexico. Introduced by the Horticultural Society. 
This has lately been + سس‎ by cers Fenzl, in a pamphlet called Nova quedam genera et species plantarum 
t. 2, indie the aliàs above quoted. It was first made known in the year 1840, in the Botanical Register, at No. 121 of 
the miscellaneous ma 
534. HAKEA MYRTOIDES. Meisner. A stiff-leaved greenhouse shrub. Native of Swan River. 
Flowers purple and yellow. Belongs to Proteads. Introduced at Kew. 
Raised from seeds sent to this country by Mr. Drummond, It is extremely different from any previously describe 
species, but perhaps most allied to Hakea dide La Billard. The bright red flowers (so unusual in the genus) d 
