162 Miscellames. 



of South Carolina ; a gentleman who, although not particularly: devo- 

 ted to the science of botany, was so eminently distinguished among 

 his countrymen, as a soldiar, statesman, patriot, and patron of useful 

 knowledge, that he is neither " now forgotten," nor is he likely to be 

 forgotten, on this side the Atlantic. 



Page 601. — "Adlumia. — A name unexplained by its author, M. 

 Rafinesque Schmalz." We do not know, with certainty, the origin 

 of this name ; but presume it was intended as a compliment to our 

 highly respected old friend. Major John Adlum, of Georgetown, 

 District of Columbia, who cultivates the vine with so much zeal and 

 success. 



Page 691. — '^Marshallia. — Named after Henry Marshall, an 

 Englishman, author of a sort of history of the trees and shrubs of 

 North America, published in 1778." Really, the contemporaries of 

 the late Humphry Marshall, must be surprised to find their amiable 

 old friend, who was born, and lived all his days, in Chester county, 

 Penn., transformed into '^Slu Englishman ;^^ and that his interesting 

 Arbustum Americanum, which first appeared in 1785, is but "a sort 

 of history of the trees and shrubs of North America, published in 

 1778!" The Arbustum Araericanum was so much esteemed, that 

 it was promptly translated into German ', and, for the time when it 

 appeared, was a highly respectable and useful work. The Professor 

 draws largely from Fursh, in compiling his Encyclopoedia ; and if 

 he had looked into the preface of that author's Flora, he would have 

 found honorable mention made of the founder of one of the oldest 

 botanic gardens in America. The truth is, the Professor seems to 

 have copied his account, errors and all, from De Theis, without 

 taking the trouble to look at Marshall's work ; and has gratuitously 

 added the disrespectful phrase, " a sort of history." Such careless 

 transmissions of error are hardly excusable in a performance of such 

 pretensions as the Encyclopoedia of Plants. 



Page 738. — '■^ Baltimora. — This plant grows in the neighborhood 

 of Baltimore.''^ If this remark is intended to intimate that the plant 

 derived its name from " the neighborhood" of its place of growth, it 

 is rather equivocally expressed, and probably inaccurate, in point of 

 fact. Specific names are frequently, and often injudiciously, im- 

 posed, with reference to the place where plants are found ; but to 

 give a generic name, such as Baltimora, Quebeckia, or Londonia, 

 merely because a plant happened to grow "in the neighborhood" of 

 those places, would be singular enough. Prof. Lindley seems to 



