INTRODUCTION 2 



It might also be questioned whether it is fair 

 to burden any plant with such a discordant name 

 asEschscholtzia (Chamisso). 18 



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 18 gives some 

 names which fail to be complimentary because 

 misspelt: Wisteria-Wister (Nuttall), Leche- 

 naultia "-Leschenault " (Brown), Scoria for Hi- 

 coria* (Rafinesque). 



" 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 28 had inaugurated the reform 220 

 years before Linnaeus published his Philosophia 

 Botanica." 



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.) 

 80 A French botanist and traveller. 



21 Barton has Scoria and Hicoria, two plants. 



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



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



