x7. 46.] TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 427 
I could learn them, if need be, and there would be 
no difficulty in procuring needful protection for the 
Huets, they finding their own subsistence. 
I have published two statistical articles, based on 
my “ Botany of the Northern States,” in “ Silliman’s 
Journal,” and a third is now printing in that journal 
for May. I shall have extra copies to send you. 
There are other topics I mean to take up, if I can 
time. 
TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 
May 4, 1857. 
Since your letter came I have looked up and read 
the article in the “ Edinburgh,” and like it much. 
Your few words about Genera, page 517, appear to 
comprise the gist of the whole matter. As to your 
fuller exposition, not being able to lay hands on the 
“Literary Gazette,’ I wait to see _your article in 
the “ Journal of the Linnzan Society.’ 
I am particularly interested in what you write of 
your popular “ British Flora,” and the English names ; 
am going to ask you to explain to me more 
fully the principles on which you proceed. For, if 
practicable, I am going to have occasion to do some- 
thing of the sort here. Pray illustrate your plan a 
little; as I see much difficulty in carrying it out, 
except in so small a flora as the British, where every 
plant has a popular name. One additional difficulty 
here is that our common English names are mostly 
misapplied ones, and the plants that have indigenous 
trivial names have too many of them, varying in dif- 
ferent parts of the country. 
How do you name the orders? What relation will 
you have between your specific names and your 
