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It might also be questioned whether it is fair 

 to burden any plant with such a discordant name 

 as Eschscholtzia (Chamisso). 16 



Linnaeus complains " that " Botanists seem (to 

 me) never to have touched upon nomenclature 



as a study Nothing is more certain than 



that the whole stock of specific names are erro- 

 neous"; and Professor Pollard 1 gives some 

 names which fail to be complimentary because 

 misspelt: fPisteria-Wist&T (Nuttall), Leche- 

 naultia le -Leschenault 2 (Brown), Scoria for Hi- 

 coria 2 (Rafmesque) . 



" The credit of having reformed the nomen- 

 clature of genera by the exclusion of names made 

 of two distinct words has been given to Linnaeus, 

 but Brunfels 2 had inaugurated the reform 220 

 years before Linnaeus published his Philosophia 

 Botanical 



In early days plants sent from America evoked 

 pretty letters from European botanists asking 

 permission to name a genus after the sender, and 



10 Johann F. Eschscholtz, 1793-1831, M. D. and botanist. 



17 Correspondence of Linnaeus, vol. ii, p. 258. 



18 Op. cit. 



"Lindley (The Vegetable Kingdom] has the correct spelling 

 Leschenault. (Brown.) 



20 A French botanist and traveller. 



21 Barton has Scoria and Hicoria, two plants. 



22 Otto Brunfels, M. D., in Berne, 1500-1534. 



28 E. L. Greene. Landmarks of Botanical History, 1909. 



