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not be atlowable to establish a different genus Linnse^a in 

 honour of the latter. It is evident that nothing but confusion 

 would arise from neglecting a rule of such plain utility. 



" ' Now, in the present case, the generic name Eschscholtzm 

 has been previously appropriated to a genus among the Labi- 

 atae, and dedicated to the memory of Eschscholtz senior. This 

 genus has been universally received ; among others, by Mr. 

 Bentham, in his recent arrangement of the Labiatse ; and, con- 

 sequently, the same name cannot be applied, with any propriety, 

 to designate a different genus of the order Papaveracese, in 

 commemoration of his son, Eschscholtz junior, the botanist 

 who accompanied Kotzebue in his voyage round the world. It 

 is true, that we find the former name spelled Elsholtz/a in bo- 

 tanical works, which appears to make a difference between them ; 

 but this has no better foundation than an error of the press ; 

 the two individuals to whom the genera are dedicated standing 

 to each other, as we have already remarked, in the relation of 

 father and son. It is time, therefore, that this anomaly should 

 be removed from our nomenclature, and that the name should 

 be preserved to the plant to which it was originally appropriated. 



" ' This beautiful genus was first discovered by Menzies, in 

 Vancouver's voyage. It might, therefore, with propriety have 

 been named Menzies/«, had not that name been preoccupied.' 



" Unwilling as I am to become a party to change the 

 established names of plants, in consequence of the great incon- 

 venience to which it generally leads, I cannot but feel that the 

 foregoing observations are unanswerable." {Bot. Reg., April.) 



Onagrdcece. 



1185. CLA'RK/J [379. 



*gaur6Scles Doug. MS. Gaura.like O pr 1 au P California 1834 S p.l Swt. Br. fl.-gard. 



" A native of California, where it was discovered by the late 

 Mr. Douglas, on his second visit to that country; and from 

 seeds transmitted by him to the Horticultural Society plants 

 were I'aised in the spring of 1835. Its claims to a place in the 

 flower border will not stand in competition with its more showy 

 congeners, C, pulchella and elegans ; but the plant is interesting 

 to the botanist, as supplying a further link of connexion between 

 Clarkm and ffinothera. The plant is a hardy annual, growing 

 luxuriantly in the ordinary garden soil, and ripening its seeds 

 freely in the open border." (Swt. Br. Fl.-Gard., April.) 



Qactdcece or Opuntidcece. 



3359. ECHINOCA'CTUS 



*sessilifl6ra Hoolc. sessile-flowered a. Z] cu ^ ... Y Mexico 1836 O s.p Bot. mag. 3569. 



Communicated to Dr. Hooker by Messrs. Mackie of the 

 Norwich Nursery. " The beautiful, short, white, and distinctly 

 placed fascicles of spines form a singular contrast with the dark 

 green of the plant, and, together with the short and depressed 



