RAMON'DA PYRENA'ICA. 



BORAGE-LEAVED RAMONDA. 

 Class. Order. 



PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



Natural Order. 



SOLANEJE. 



No. 83. 



With the derivation of the present generic name 

 we are not acquainted. Pyrenaica, from Pyrenees, 

 where it is indigenous. 



The present beautiful alpine plant is the Verbas- 

 cum myconi of Linneus, Curtis, and Aiton, and con- 

 sequently is now commonly known by that name. 

 Our aversion to unnecessary innovations on the esta- 

 blished arrangement and nomenclature of botanical 

 science has been fully expressed ; and it is only 

 from conviction in our own humble judgment, of the 

 necessity or expediency of alteration, that we ever 

 submit to changes. As it is, in all cases, necessary 

 on the one hand, to guard against the intrusion of 

 empirics ; so on the other, it is expedient that we 

 attach not ourselves, by undue prejudice, to any 

 system of things, merely on account of a long ac- 

 quaintance with it. 



Brilliant genius sometimes steps forth and strikes 

 out a new and enlightened path for itself, but unfor- 

 tunately, a great portion of the innovators on all re- 

 ceived systems, are found to pursue a road, ulti- 

 mately deserted by all but themselves. An anony- 

 mous author observes, that a virtuous mind has 



