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amendment of some later author adds a syllable, or otherwise 
affects the sound of the name. Sarracena is what Tournefort, 
the founder of the genus, and others after him wrote; Sarra- 
cenia is Linnwus' assumed amendment, but it is no true 
amendment or correction.  Sarracena is faultless, and has 
lately been re-adopted in the greatest of all treatises on 
genera, Baillon’s Histoire. The Greek aspirate, too, not 
represented in that language by any really alphabetical 
character, does not seem happily resurrected in the form of 
an H to make Heleocharis when the author of that genus 
wrote Eleocharis. That scarcely seems to rise to the dignity 
of a grammatical correction. It is not a case of offensively 
_ unhellenic writing, like Nuttall’s Epifagus, almost of necessity 
corrected into Epiphegus. There may be named, however, 
in this connection, some more important matters which it 
seems to me our authors might well have taken in hand; the 
name Dicentra, for example. To write “ Dicentra, Borckh.” is 
to depart rather widely from the ways of historie truth ; for 
Borckhausen published no Dicentra nor any name much like 
it; and we have no right to say that he did. Bernhardi was 
the author of that truly neat and pretty appellative for this — 
beautiful genus, and he who uses it is bound to give him the 
credit of it by writing Dicentra, Bernh. ; but that, alas, is to 
ignore the founder of the genus. And what can one's duty 
be but to write the simple truth, which is Diclytra, Borckh.? 
That, as has well been shown by men having access to the 
original paper of Borckhausen, is no misprint, but just the 
name which the author meant to make; and the mere issue 
of an incorrect etymology is what has raised all the fuss, and 
all the confusion which has been made aboutit. Meanwhile 
there are almost countless generic names of bad etymology, 
and plenty of them with none at all. Of course, Diclytra and 
Dicentra are two different names, each with its own author ; 
but the citation of the East American species, under the prior 
name, involves not a single re-adjustment. All of them were 
