246 Retrospective Criticism. 



4. Iinpcratrt' : the etymon is stated to l)e unknown. The genus was 

 dedicated by Cyrillo to Iniperati, an Italian botanist. 



5. C'fssus qninquerolia and Ainpelopsis quinciuefolia, mentioned twice 

 under these two names : and it is neitlier, l)ut my Quinaria. See my AIo- 

 noiira])li on Vines, and my Medical Flora, vol. ii. [). 1:^0 — 180. 



G. Nicot/V/«ff. Etymon of Tobacco : it is the name of |)ipe in Hayti lan- 

 guage ; and not from Tobago nor Tobasco. See Aiiglina, 1 o2o ; and my 

 Medical Flora, 1830. 



7. Ipoma'^a Qi((hnoelit. False etymon given. Qiidmoc/il is the Mexican 

 name ; it grows i'rom Florida to Mexico. 



8. Gymnema. " Vaccine ichor," for " milk or vaccine liquor." 

 9 i/eta, a substitute for coffee. Sugar ought to be said instead. 



10. 7i?hus aromuticum I called Tur|)in/rt; but I changed it to Lobadium, 

 on finding another genus Turpln/«. 1 did not know it was called SchmaltzJa 

 (after me or my mother's name) by Desvaux. It is also il/yrica trifoliata 

 of Linnaeus. 



11. i\"arcissus, " from narlce." Ovid and all other authors derive iV'iircls- 

 sus from the name of a man. 



12. Drosera filiforuiis liaf., 1808. Pursh, in 1814, stole this plant 

 from me. 



13. Smilacina. Bad name. It forms my genera Ciinton/« and Styrandra. 

 The Dracaj^ia borealis of Aiton is the type of my beautiful genus Clin- 

 tons (dedicated to (Governor Clinton, philosopiier, naturalist, and states- 

 man), with bilocular berries. 1 have found six species of it: those culti- 

 vated in England are il. muitiflura and nutans. 



14. Polygonatum, same as /Vlygonum. My Sigillaria or Axilliiria. 



\b. Virgilirt liitea, so called from the yellow wood. You say it has 

 yellow flowers. Miciiaux's figure has white flowers; and so had the spe- 

 cies I saw in bloom. Is a yellow-flowered species cultivated in England ? 

 The virgilias of North America ami Mexico form my new genus Cladras- 

 tis ; very different from the Virgilir-c of Africa. 



IG. VVhy is Cydonia adopted, while Morbus and ^1/alus arc united to 

 Pyrus ; nay, also, Aronia united, far more removed? 



17. A'pine^i corymbosa of Loddigcs is mine; published by me in 1814. 

 See Precis des Dccourerles, No. 11 o. 



18. ActiKii racemosa and Cimicifuga seipentaria, twice mentioned in two 

 places. It is my new genus B6tro[)his, 1828 ; Macrotys, 1808. 



1 9. Asii)ii>ia, stated to have no mciuiing. Wrong : name of Indians of 

 Louisiana. 



20. DionreV/, Jert'ersonw, Pod()ph>Ilum, <!v:c., stated to be genera with 

 solitary species. Wrong: I have seen and tiescribed tiiree species of each, 

 DiouiiV/ corvmbosa, sessiliflora, and luiiflora ; .leffersuuw liartun/, odorata, 

 and lobata; Podopliylluin pL'ltatum, montanum, anil callicarpum. See 

 Medical I'lora., &C. 



2 1 . Erucaria, same as £ruca. It is my Pachila. 



22. Adliunw. A false etymon given. It was dedicated by mcto Adlum, 

 an American cultivator and writer on vines, a friend of horticulture and 

 botanv; yet living, and making good American wine. 



23." Caniell/V/, Cameliua, and ('amclus among (|uadru|)eds; three genera 

 of the same name nearly. 1 have calleil the tea shrub Theaphylla (mean- 

 ing divine leaf) : a good name, wliellur a peculiar genus, or Camell/a to be 

 united to it. 



24. Liipinaster. Horrible name ! /-upinus and /I'ster. My Dacti- 

 phvlbnu, 1817. 



2.J. //ypericum virginicum, with " yellt)w flowers." W' rong : always 

 purplish." it is my Triadenum purpurascens, 1808; different from Elodea. 



2G. Marshalba. Marshall was an American botanist, not an Englishman. 



27. C'acrUia. All the American species of this genus are different from 



