1G2 Miscellanies. 



of South Carolina ; a gentleman who, although not particularly devo- 

 ted to the science of botany, was so eminently distinguished among 

 his countrymen, as a soldier, statesman, patriot, and patron of useful 

 knowledge, that he is neither "now forgotten," nor is he likely to be 

 forgotten, on this side the Atlantic. 



Page 601. — "Adlumia. — A name unexplained by its author, M. 

 Rafinesque Schmalz." We do not know, with certainty, the origin 

 of this name ; but presume it was intended as a compliment to our 

 highly respected old friend, Major John Adlum, of Georgetown, 

 District of Columbia, who cultivates the vine with so much zeal and 



success. 



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Page 691. — "Marshallia. — Named after Henry Marshall, an 



Englishman, author of a sort of history of the trees and shrubs of 



North America, published in 1778." Really, the contemporaries of 



the late Humphry Marshall, must be surprised to find their amiable 



old friend, who was born, and lived all his days, in Chester county 



Penn., transformed into "an Englishman;" and that his interesting 



Arbustum Americanum, which first appeared in 1785, is but u a sort 



of history of the trees and shrubs of North America, published in 



1778!" The Arbustum Americanum was so much esteemed, that 



it was promptly translated into German ; and, for the time when it 



appeared, was a highly respectable and useful work. The Professor 



draws largely from Pursh, in compiling his Encyclopoedia ; and if 



he had looked into the preface of that author's Flora, he would have 



found honorable mention made of the founder of one of the oldest 



botanic gardens in America. The truth is, the Professor seems to 



have copied his account, errors and all, from De Theis, without 



taking the trouble to look at Marshall's work ; and has gratuitously 



added the disrespectful phrase, "a sort of history." Such careless 



transmissions of error are hardly excusable in a performance of such 



pretensions as the Encyclopoedia of Plants. 



Page 73S.— •" Bait imor a. — This plant grows in the neighborhood 

 of Baltimore." If this remark is intended to intimate that the plant 

 derived its name from "the neighborhood" of its place of growth, it 

 is rather equivocally expressed, and probably inaccurate, in point ot 

 fact. Specific names are frequently, and often injudiciously, UB- 

 posed, with reference to the place where plants are found ; but to 



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merely because a plant happened to grow " in the neighborhood" of 

 those places, would be singular enough. Prof. Lindley seems to 



