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ception that epithets, like those which follow, are very undesirable in 

 botanical nomenclature. In reply to a hope 1 had expressed to Mr. 

 Haworth, that he had not devised them, he humorously replied as follows. 



J, Z).] : — " Veronica neglecta and iSaxifraga intdcta are not of my naming, 



and although I am not passionately fond of such names, we may as well 

 call the O'xalis, that has bewildered you so much, ' puzzle-peg.' "... 

 " The last general work ever ought to be the best, simply because time 

 alone is the best corrector of errors." . . . . ". The seeds you mention 

 I have forgotten all about, and may add, seeds and roots, save of bulbs 

 and of succulents, are almost thrown away upon me, as I have no room 

 in my little garden here to grow them." 



Seventeenth Letter, dated February 25. 1830. — " The 



late very long and heavy winter has, 1 am sorry to say, destroyed an 

 unusual number of my green-house succulents ; some of which, I think, 

 will never be seen ahve here again, in my time. But I console myself in 

 having dried specimens of them ; and this leads me to speak of your 

 specimens of last summer. Most of those I dried very well, and where 

 they were not too luxuriant, I have glued one of most of them, even 

 though I had them before; preserving your numbers (and tickets of all you 

 wrote the names of), so that I can refer to almost any number you, 

 retrospectively, may enquire about. When you send more, go on, cur^ 

 rently with the numbers, very carefully (for you sent no ticket number 320, 

 but two, and distinct species, of 321, though both numbers are in your 

 letter). Ticket and number every species. Select moderate, or smallish 

 garden specimens (which look like strong wild ones) and with fruit and 

 flower, and even root, where practicable and not too large ; with every 

 information of country, duration, and introduction ; and, when known, any 

 remarks or reference to figure or page, where reputed to be described. — 

 Keep tip to this ; and I will settle for you as much as my leisure will pos- 

 sibly allow." [The expressions " country," date of " introduction," &c., 

 render it not improper to say that these were made in relation to species 

 raised from seeds most kindly contributed to the Bury Botanic Garden, 

 by Mr. Hunnemann, 9. Queen Street, Soho Square, London; by Mr. 

 Christopher Abraham Fischer, inspector of the botanic garden in the 

 University of Gottingen ; and by others : from these seeds plants new to, 

 or rare in, this country were occasionally produced. See in p. 111. 113. 

 and 240. of the present Volume, Mr. Cameron's rich list of newly in- 

 troduced species, raised from these and similar sources. — J. D.] 

 Eighteenth Letter. — Wholly technical. 



Nineteenth Letter, dated May 22. 1830. — . . . . " I have described 

 at large the, your two wild, Suffolk Croci, for the Supplement to English 

 Botany, and they will be published on the 1st of June next. I have also 

 described a new Mammillaria for the Botanical Register, which will be out 

 in June, and have likewise written a sort of advertising enquiry about the 

 lost hardy bulbous plants of our great grandfathers, in the Gardenei-^s 

 Magazine for June next. [See Vol. VI. p. 368., also Vol. VIL p. 247. 

 — J. J).] So you will find I have not been idle. I have had the like 

 occur (three different pieces on natural history, in three different period- 

 icals, in one month) twice before in my time." . . . . " When you 

 come, I shall be exceeding glad to see you here, and to give you every 

 facility and information in my power respecting any thing that may serve 

 your views." [This, my deceased friend, Mr. Haworth, did to the full, 

 and, as long as he lived, was very kind to me. — John Denson.] 



