120 ’ FOREST CULTURE AND 
Belladonna and Calabar Bean. Here medicine, chem- 
istry, and phytology go hand in hand. How, again, 
is any analysis of the chemic constituents of any 
plant, for cultural purposes or otherwise, to be ap- 
plied,unless we command a language of phytographic 
expressions which will name with never-failing pre- 
cision the object before us, and give to its elucidation 
value and stability ? 
We may speak chemically ot potash plants, lime 
plants, and so forth ; we may wish to define thereby 
the direction of certain industrial pursuits, and we 
may safely thereby foretell what plants can be raised 
profitably on any particular soil or with the use of 
any particular manure; but how is this knowledge to 
be fixed without exact phytologic information, or how 
is the knowledge to be applied, if we are to trust to 
vernacular names, perplexing even within the area 
of a small colony, and useless, as a rule, beyond it ? 
Colonial Box-trees by dozens, yet all distinct, and 
utterly unlike Turkey Box; colonial Myrtle, without 
the remotest resemblance to the poet’s myrtle ; colo- 
nial Oaks, analogous to those Indian trees which as 
Casuarine were distinguished so graphically by Rumpf 
two hundred years ago, but without a trace of simi- 
larity to any real Oak—afford instances of our confused 
and ludicrous vernacular appellations. A total change 
is demanded, resting on the rational observations and 
deductions which science already has gained for us, 
Assuredly, with any claims to ordinary intelligence, 
we ought to banish such designations, not only from 
museum collections, but also from the dictionary of 
the artisan. 
One. of the genera of Mushrooms, certainly the 
