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the name of ' Palma Christi radice repente ' or ' Creeping 

 Satyrion ', and which we should now call the Marsh Helle- 

 borine or Epipactis pahistris. Robert Brown, who gave 

 the name Goodyera to the northern genus in honour of our 

 Hampshire botanist, was misled by Johnson, who in error 

 had attached a figure of Goodyera repens to the text 

 relating to the Marsh Helleborine. It is somewhat un- 

 fortunate that by a triple error his name should have been 

 attached to a plant which in all probability he could never 

 have seen, but that is only one of the many chance circum- 

 stances which have led to the passing from memory of the 

 services of ' an incomparable botanist, of sound judgement, 

 and of immense industry '. 



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