&T. 47.] TO GEORGE BENTHAM. 435 
Pear; genus=Pyrus, under it 
Pear, with its species ; 
Apple, 1. Common Apple, 
2. Crab-Apple, ete. 
There are formidable difficulties about this popular 
nomenclature, yet they must be surmounted in some 
way or other. 
As we are making much of English, why not say 
“ rootstock” instead of. “rhizome.” I do not like 
French forms. I would even say “ pod” instead of 
“capsule,” in popular parlance. 
Kindly send me proofs as you go on. I want much 
to see them. 
Wright’s collections in North Pacific Expedition 
are here, and he is turning over his Behring Straits 
collection and trying to work it out, with some help 
from me. There is a Hongkong collection; there may 
be some of these he would like to ask you to name, 
so far as you may off hand. The Japan collection I 
will elaborate myself. There is not so much from the 
north as I expected. They had no chance to explore 
the small islands connecting with the Kurile Islands. 
I have only peeped into one or two parcels; but in 
one I saw two things which will interest you as much 
as they did me. Imagine the two most characteristic 
possible eastern United States plants, Caulophyllum 
and Diphylleia, both, I believe, our very species. Tell 
this to Dr. Hooker! 
The only domestic news I have to tell you is, that 
on a hot August day our beloved Newfoundland dog 
was found dead, — really a sad loss. To console us 
my brother-in-law, a fortnight after, sent me a puppy 
of the same breed, an uneasy, frolicsome, awkward 
fellow yet, but promising to be intelligent and very 
