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SUNDRY PROPOSITIONS, 
Commended to the consideration of the most north- 
westerly editor of the Botanical Gazette. 
WHEN an editor prefaces his contributor’s paragraphs 
with words of sympathizing commendation, he is naturally 
ready to defend the matter thus contributed. 
THe words Latin and latinity are, in the last Gazette, 
assumed to be synonymous. Before printing this, our 
editorial friend should have instructed himself on the 
important point, that dictionaries of Latin and of latinity are 
books of widely different scope and character. 
LatTinity is Latin plus many other things, including 
whatever rubbish of barbarian and mongrel verbal jugglery 
and clap-trap with Latin endings of us, a, um, ete., those 
innocent of grammar have fabricated and left on written 
record in ancient, or medieval, or modern times. 
WHEN there is question of such names as elatiocarpus 
or versicolorcarpus, of course a Lexicon of Latinity, and even 
of All Latinity must needs come into requisition. No 
Lexicon of Latin would serve but to condemn. Latin never 
knew, nor can ever know such terms. 
Query. Will not old friends of the Gazette hide in deep 
humiliation confused faces, as they read on a page of this 
valued journal such brazen statements as that brevifolia 
and breviflora are mongrel terms, half Greek and half 
Latin, and that cuspidocarpus and lanocarpus are Latin 
legitimate and pure 
Query. When our two friends of the northwest, the 
Editor and the Astragalologer, combine their grammatic and 
literary skill in efforts to make another man appear 
given to hasty and unseemly speech in criticism, do not 
their sentences recall with delightful freshness, the homely 
half-forgotten fable of the pot that called the kettle black? 
BE. L. G. 
