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may we not readily believe that, on the first an- 

 nouncement of the new genus comprising all the 

 varieties or specimens of this beautiful plant, the 

 ardent Abbe himself at once gave it the name 

 Wistaria, and that this worthy tribute to their 

 mutual friend and fellow-botanist, Dr. Wistar, 

 was readily accepted and adopted by the dis- 

 tinguished author Nuttall?" 2 



His biographers tell us that soon after his re- 

 turn from Europe " he was united in matri- 

 mony " with Isabella Marshall, but she died 

 childless. Eight years later he married Eliza- 

 beth Mifflin, who made him happy with two sons 

 and a daughter. He was a Quaker and a re- 

 ligious man, and brought up his children to 

 revere God's word, of which he carried a cher- 

 ished copy given him by Dr. Charles Stuart of 

 Edinburgh. He often took his children out in 

 the carriage with him to talk of the teachings of 

 the Bible. 



A Tribute to the Memory of Caspar Wistar. D. Hosack. 

 An Eulogium in Commemoration of Dr. Caspar Wistar. W. 

 Tilghman. 



An Eulogium on Caspar Wistar. C. Caldwell. 

 Communications from the Wistar family. 



* Nuttall writes 'Wisteria,' but states it was named after Dr. Caspar 

 Wistar. (E. J. Nolan.) 



Gray calls it Wistaria and that is sufficient to settle the matter for 

 any lay American community. 



