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in honour of three Swiss botanists named Schenchzer; and 

 the Goody era, so named in commemoration of John Good- 

 yer, an English botanist often referred to by Gerarde. 

 Amongst the specific names we in the same manner find 

 not only Buxbaumii, but Halleri, Babingtoni, Raii, Borreri, 

 Mackayi, Wither! ngii, Lawsoni, and many others. In old 

 plant lists we find the hoary sedge given as the Carex 

 Buxbaumii, but this name is now disestablished, and the 

 plant appears in the -lists as the C. canescens. The only 

 work of Buxbaum/s with which we are acquainted, though 

 he probably wrote others, is the " Centuriae duae Plan- 

 tarum circa Byzantium et in Oriente Observatarum 

 minus Cognitarum," a book published in two volumes in 

 1 729, and illustrated by numerous plates. The Buxbaum's 

 speedwell, like several of the others, may be termed a plant 

 of cultivation, springing up in the gardens and fields, and 

 never wandering far from human society and influence. 

 The plant is a southerner, and though we find it throughout 

 England, and even in the adjacent part of Scotland, it is 

 more especially at home in less northern latitudes, and it 

 is very probable that it was inti-oduced with some kind of 

 foreign seed at some bygone period that we cannot now 

 trace. We some time since found a flower which was an 

 entire stranger to us growing in Surrey in the midst of a 

 field of swedes, and subsequent investigation demonstrated 

 that it was a native of Peru. A friend of ours has so far 

 managed to acclimatise the plant that it now springs up in 

 his garden every year, and what is even in this limited 

 degree possible in the case of this distant stranger becomes 

 much more possible in the case of a plant of southern 

 Europe. 



Of the common species of speedwells we may mention 



