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botanical science; and those who might be disposed to adopt the 
author's views in reference to the multiplication of genera, would find 
many of his divisions established under other names ; but there is one 
genus with which, as far as we are aware, no one has yet meddled 
with a view to its generic subdivision, and which we may therefore 
take as an example of the extent to which the author has carried his 
principle. This is the genus 4JJivm, constituting in the present work 
the Order Cepee. In Don's Monograph, which has been closely fol- 
lowed by Kunth, this genus is arranged under eleven divisions, to seven 
of which names are given, but apparently not meant even as sub- 
generic. In the work before us, Allium is divided into no fewer than 
eighteen genera, as follows :— 
HzxoNYcnra = Allium stellatum, 
CALLIPRENE — 44. cernuum. 
RaPHIONE=4. pallens, etc. 
XYLORHIZA=A. senescens, etc. 
BERENICE= Á. Victorialis. 
ALLIUM — A. nutans. 
PoRgRUM-— 4. Ampeloprasum, ete. 
CE 
PRYLLODOLON — 4. fistulosum. 
CAMARILLA — 4. obliquum. 
SCHGNISSA = 4. Schenoprasum. 
Butomissa= 4. Tataricum. 
HyLoGETON — A. ursinum. 
Moryza — 4. Mo 
ANIDIA — A. magicum. 
IuLus= 4. subhirsutum. 
SATURNIA— 4. Chamemoly. 
 BRisEIS— A. triquetrum. 
On these divisions the author makes the following observations :— 
* The fcetid smell which these vegetables so generally exhale has been since 
the time of Linné, I may say, the only character of Allium; every one which 
had it, however discordant either in its organs of vegetation or reproduction, 
‘being joined together by him, in his rage for abolishing the genera of Tourne- 
fort; till at last, to make Governor Tulbagh some amends for not adopting 
that genus which Heister had called by his name, he selected two plants of the 
i to perpetuate it. The smell of Cepeec is indeed frequently so 
intolerable, that after dissecting about half the species in our collections, I 
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