SOME BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



BY DR. M. B. BORKHAUSEN. 

 [Tranflated from the German. *3 



AMONG the various charges brought forward 

 with a view to disparage the merits of the great 

 Swedish naturalists we find it imputed to him, that 

 he has often neglected the study of nature, and 

 not only formed many spurious genera, but, what 

 is deemed still more detrimental to the science, 

 many spurious species, and, on the other hand, 

 that he has sometimes degraded real species into 

 varieties. Subsequent botanists, therefore, have 

 taken great pains to correct these Linnean errors, 

 by searching for those plants reduced into varieties, 

 and reinstating them in their specific rights. 



* Romer's Archiv flir die Botanik.vol. I. p. 45.. 



