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traveller, Dr. Burchell. Dr. Gray, of the British Museum, who had 
had the advantage, during Salisbury’s life, of consulting portions of 
the intended ‘ Genera’ with a view to the ‘ Natural Arrangement of 
British Plants,’ and retained a grateful recollection of the kindness 
thus shown to him in early life, obtained what remained of these mate- 
rials from the representative of Dr. Burchell, who died in 1863, and has 
published the present “fragment” as a specimen of what the work 
would have been if completed in conformity with the intentions of its 
author. 
The fragment here given includes the larger portion of the non- 
glumaceous Orders of Monocotyledones, or, as the author terms them, 
Pleurothalle ; all the non-glumaceous plants being included under the 
tribual term of Ziriogame. Some of these Orders are not fully worked 
out, the names of the genera only being given, with observations on 
their structure and affinities; but in by far the greater number the 
work is evidently complete. "The ordinal and generie characters are 
given at length, and in Latin, in a mode exactly conformable to that 
of Jussieu; and at the end of each order the several genera are re- 
enumerated, with observations in English on their characters, relations, 
and structural peculiarities, and on the opinions of other botanists in 
regard to them. It is only to be regretted that in these Observations 
there sometimes mingles a tone of acrimony in reference to some of 
the author's contemporaries, and in partieular to Robert Brown and 
Sir James E. Smith, which is occasionally extended to Ker and Her- 
bert, and even to Adanson and Linnzus. This, however, is charac- 
teristie of the man, of whom De Candolle says, in his Autobiography, 
** C'était un homme d'esprit vif et d'une pétulance extraordinaire," 
and —- he elsewhere, as we have seen, characterizes as “ acer- 
rimus." 
Like most of those who have worked largely on garden plants, and 
especially on Orders of which the far greater number of species are in 
eultivation, Salisbury's tendency was to minute subdivision both of 
orders and genera. In his hands nearly all the larger genera, such as 
Amaryllis, Narcissus, and Allium, become orders, each subdivided into 
numerous genera. This mus he defends, under the Order Nar- 
cissee, by the following arguments 
“Many botanists of the =. day may be of. — | 
not constitute a legitimate Order, and whether mine eirs be hereafter fo! 
