1 1 6 SOME AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANISTS 



from the genus Heliamphora of Bentham, and I 

 take pleasure in dedicating it to my highly es- 

 teemed friend, Dr. William Darlington . . . . , 

 whose valuable botanical works have contributed 

 so largely to the scientific reputation of our coun- 

 try. The genus dedicated to this veteran botanist 

 by De Candolle has been reduced to a section of 

 Desmanthus by Bentham, and a Californian 

 plant, on imperfect specimens of which I have 

 recently indicated a genus under this name, 

 proves to be only a species of Styrax" 



Darlington certainly deserved the honor, for 

 a more generous man never lived. This was 

 shown in his gathering together all the letters and 

 memoranda of Dr. William Baldwin, a zealous 

 botanist, who died still young while on an expe- 

 dition up the Missouri. He called the book 

 Reliquiae Baldwinianae, 1843, an d, six years 

 later, made all botanists his debtors by his loving 

 work shown in The Memorials of John Bartram 

 and Humphry Marshall, 1849, the careful foot- 

 notes alone constituting valuable references to the 

 botanical side of that period. Between these two 

 volumes another was written, a result of his ob- 

 servation of the unscientific farming going on 

 around him, a book which was of genuine serv- 

 ice; this was his Agricultural Botany, 1847. 



He willed that his herbarium and all his botan- 

 ical works should go to his own county, where 



