heated to 150°, under a cloudless sky; and so tenacious of life are they that the plucked 
flower stalks, placed between papers under pressure (for the purpose of making specimens for 
_ the herbarium) will, not unfrequently, ripen their seeds in the press. 
The name Brunsvicia was given to the genus by the celebrated Heister, in commemoration 
of Charles Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg and (adds the late Sir J. E. Smith in the Supplement 
to Rees’ Cyclopedia under that article) ‘we hope that all Englishmen will ever have reason to 
hail the name of Brunswick wherever it appears.” 
