Retrospective Criticism. 483 



For Cistinea read Cistinea?. Page line 



For Corypha read Corypha. 13. and 73. for Iridea? read Iridese. 



For Glycine read Glycine. 24. for diversil&bum read diversilobum. 



For Oxalis read O'xalis. 25. for lasiocaulon read lasiocaillon. % 



For Spartium nubigenum read S. nubigenum. 32. for streptanthera read streptanthera. 



33. for Iridea? read Iridese. " 



35. for Asphodelea? read Asphodeleae. 



vol. in. ^2. for Smilacea? read Smilaceae. 



F Ao e o ne ' 72 ' 8 - f° r Cistineae read CistineEe. 



\ n 1 f° r L y cium read L^cium. 24. for Achillea read Achillea, 



m' -To" f° r L y cium read Lycium 27. for saxifraga read saxifraga. 



5o f or monogynum read mon6gynum. 7. from bot. for farf ara read farfara. 



a f° r Marica read Marica. 80. 29. for colutea f read colutea. 



f o a f or eur .v oides * read euryo'ides. 105. 46. for Oxalis read O'xalis. 



do. 27. for Liparis read Liparis. 106. 16. from bot. for CSn6thera r. CSnothera. 



28. for coelogyne read ccelogyne. 6. from bot. for Glycine read Glycine. 



40. for ixioides read ixioides. 107. 40. for CEn6thera read CEnothera. 



68. 30. for ericoides read ericoides. 107. 34. for Irideae redd Iridese. 



31. for Empetrea; read Empdtrea;. 182. 4. from bot. for cerasus read cerasus. 



37. for urticeee read urticeae. 196. 10. for Asarum read A v sarum. % 



39. for Thymeleae read Thymeleas. 37. for cyaneum read cyaneum. 



' 69. 8. for iridioides read iridioldes. 2. and 4. from bot. for Cyclamen read 



[71. 10. for Myrteas read Myrteaj. Cyclamen. 



Accenting Botanical Names. — " Etymologia Graeca plantarum difficillime 

 eruitur in plerisque plantis, adeoque conjecturae saspius satisfaciunt." 

 Liinncei Philosoph. Bolan., s.240. — " The Greek derivations of the names 

 of many plants are extremely difficult to discover, and therefore we must 

 often be satisfied by conjecture." 



" Auctoritas vocum petendaest patribus." lb., s. 241. — "The autho- 

 rity of a word is to be sought for from its originator." 



Sir, I am much interested in the success of the Gardener's Magazine, 

 because I think it calculated to diffuse useful and agreeable information. 



Since you have adopted the accentuation of Latin words, I have carefully 

 noted the variations which have crept in, probably from the difficulty of 

 correcting the press. Allow me to make some enquiries on this subject. I 

 have before me at present only Nos. VIII. and IX. of the Gardener's Ma- 

 gazine, but the observations arising from the pages of these will have a 

 more extensive reference. 



First, as to the accentuation of Genera. 

 Vol. II. page 597. and 442. You accentuate Berberis on the second sylla- 

 ble; but in No. IX. p. 97., Berberis on the first. Which is right, 

 and on what authority ? [Answ. Berberis.] 

 597. Tropaeolum. Why not Tropse'olum ? 



Phaseolus. Why not Phaseolus ? 

 398. Arachis. From what derivation ? [It is a name «f Pliny for a plant 



which, he says, has neither leaves nor stems.] 

 422. Glycine ; and p. 106., No IX. Why not Glycine ? 



456. for Henricus lege Henricus. 



457. CEnothera, and 484., and No. IX. p. 107., must be CEnothera; gyripa. 



being the original name, or, as you quote it, thera. 

 442. Arbutus is AVbiitus, on the authority of Virgil. 

 454. Atropa is as certainly A'tropa, from Arponos. 



* In all words of this kind, ending in oides, which signify the form or 

 shape of another plant, the oi is to be pronounced as two syllables, as 

 euryo-ides, with the accent on the i, which is long in the Greek word 

 whence it is taken. Thus, in ixio-ides, ides signifies the form or shape, 

 and ixio, of an ixia ; so in erico-ides, ides' is the form or shape, and erico, 

 of an erica. 



-f- This word is commonly pronounced colutea; but this is certainly 

 wrong, for it is taken from the Greek word coloutea of Theophrastus, in 

 which the e is the short e in Greek. 



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