98 Dr. Smith's Remarks on Pa:derota, G?r. 



lately brought from Spain by the fpecific name of ruelloides, and it is 

 fo called amongfl us: but a more prepofterous blunder was hardly 

 ever made in botany, as thofe who know the plant, and can read 

 hmnxus's Supp/eme!Uu?>i, p. 279, will readily perceive. With refpeiSl 

 to the two fpecies of Hemimeris in queftion, they perfectly accord 

 with the generic charafter given above, with which alfo the Lin- 

 naean fabulofa and diffufa, (which I have carefully macerated and 

 difleded), and to all appearance the montana alfo, perfectly agree. 

 In their general habit and ftrudture they alfo manifeftly form alto- 

 gether one natural genus. 



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