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nera are arranged, in a Synoptical or Analytical man- 

 ner, according to their shortest, most technical, cha- 

 racters. In these, whatever part of the Fructification 

 affords the most decisive or striking characters in 

 each artificial Order or subdivision, takes the lead, the 

 others following according to their importance. But 

 in the" above-mentioned Essential Characters (104)> 

 at the head of each Genus, the parts of Fructification, 

 whence those characters are derived, should be dis- 

 posed, as has already been observed, according to 

 their relative importance in the particular Natural 

 Order, or Series, to which such Genera belong. 



These are the principles of arrangement which Lin- 

 naeus appears to have laid down for himself, and 

 upon which he gradually improved. But in the detail 

 of his System he has not always kept them strictly in 

 view ; nor have his pupils, followers, or editors, paid 

 the requisite attention to them, especially with regard 

 to those intricate or recondite natural relationships^ 

 which few of these writers perhaps were competent to 

 observe, and to which, it must be confessed, botanists 

 of the old Linnaean school have generally paid too 

 little attention. 



Respecting Nomenclature, it is only necessary to 

 remark, that every Genus should be distinguished by 

 a name, either of Greek or Latin derivation, or formed 

 out of the proper name of some botanist, worthy of" 

 such commemoration. Names of barbarous origin 

 have, however, crept in, by the means of Linnaeus 



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