240 Botanical Writings of Rafinesque. — ~ 
cated to me,” he remarks in the introduction, “TI shall perhaps 
have to imitate Roxburgh, and choose one for myself, as a Ra- 
Jinesquia.” . It is not true that Roxburgh dedicated a genus to 
himself. This honor was reserved for Rafinesque, who accord- 
ingly appropriated the Lotus pinnatus of the Botanical Magazine, 
and described. it in due form as Rarinesquia seu Flundula, the 
second name being proposed as a substitute in case this honor had 
been already conferred by some other person. But as the plant 
turned out to be an Hosackia, he is obliged to make another trial ; 
and in the preamble to the third part, he continues: “As toa 
Rafinesquia, I have provided half a dozen, out of which I hope 
some one will suit the fancy of botanists and be adopted; al- 
though I may be blamed for this conceit, I blame instead for it 
those makers of new genera, that dedicate them to obscure indi- 
viduals, that have not added one page to the science ; and have 
not thought of me for forty years, who have added one thousand 
pages to it, and three thousand new genera or species.””* His 
next choice falls upon the beautiful Gardoquia Hookeri ! which 
is published in due form as the second Rarinesquia of Rafin- 
esque ;+ and of which he makes two species in his New Flora of 
North America. 
The last named work is precisely of the same character with 
the preceding, except that the new genera are not quite so nume- 
rous, but the new species amply supply the deficiency. Several 
of the former are made in this way: “ Actimeris, Raf., mis- 
spelt Actinomeris by Nuttall; Actispermum, Raf., misspelt Actino- 
spermum by Elliott.” As to species, the following may suffice 
for examples. A single Amphicarpaa is divided into ten species 
in two genera, Bellis integrifolia into four species, Capsella Bur- 
sa-pastoris into seven species and one new genus besides, Pru 
nella vulgaris into ten species, two species of T'riostewm into 
eight, a single (?) Helipta into ten or twelve species and appa 
rently three genera, &c. &c. 'These are by no means unusual 
instances, but fairly exhibit the character of the work. 
1839. American Manual of the Mulberry Trees. Philadelphia. 
Of this pamphlet we have seen no more than the title-page.and 
the first sheet. ey 
1840. The Good Book and Amenities of Nature; or Annals 
of Historical and Natural Sciences, is the last we have to notice. 
Enea yee at ere oe 
* Flora Telluriana, part 3, p. 6. t Op. cit. part 3, p. 82. 
