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thefe accounts, placed it, in the second edition of 

 his Species plantarum, pag. 509, at the end of the 

 Genus Erica, as E. Daboecia ; not, however, 

 without suggesting his doubt as to the propriety 

 of this position. When this naturalist afterwards 

 received, from Collinson, the description of the 

 flower and fruit, he called it Andromeda daboecia, 

 in the twelfth edition of his Systema, pag. 300 ; 

 where he observed, its habit required this trans- 

 lation, though in regard to the number of the 

 parts, it shewed greater affinity to the heaths. 

 This change was adopted by Murray and 

 Reichard ; but Thunberg, in his " Dissertatio 

 de Erica," returned it to that genus under its 

 former name ; in which he has been followed by 

 Lamarck, Gmelin, Willdenow. 



Such fluctuation among botanists as for generic 

 determination, proceeds either from not attend- 

 ing sufficiently to the whole of the sexual parts 

 of plants, or from overlooking characters as 

 unimportant, which really are far from being so. 

 The followers of systematic order often think, for 

 instance., that they have given a complete idea of 



