226 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
* Mr. Loudon’s history of plants is excellent: I have found in it 
many novelties and valuable matter. If he had known my Medical 
Flora of the United States, where 600 genera are mentioned, and 
even their sph omer * J pet indinated, he could have added 
some other peculiari 
Without aero peeneab I enter upon the course of my 
pir. — 
. The good genus Centranthus of Necker and Decandolle is 
called Fedia; and the Fedia is called Valerianeila. Is it oversight 
or whim 
. Tritonia of Ker is inadmissible: there are two genera of that 
name ; already ; ; this is the third. I have called it Belendenia. 
. Oryzopsis Mx. is erroneous: Dilepyrum Raf., 1808. The 
same with Airopsis, Arundinaria, Portulacaria, Erucaria, Testudt- 
naria, ‘Cncurbliasia, &e.: all these are inadmissible. drundinaria 
is Miegia o 
4, Imperata: the etymon is stated to be unknown. — genus 
pra dedicated by Cyrillo to Imperati, an Italian botani 
5. Cissus quinquefolia and Ampelopsis auingi, antopo 
twice under these two names: and it is neither, bu my Quinaria. 
See my Monograph on Vines, and my Medical Flora, vol. ii. p. 120-180. 
6. Nicotiana. EKtymon of Tobacco: it is the name of pipe in 
Hayti language; and not from Tobago nor Tobasco. See outs 
1525; and my Medical Flora, 1 
7. Ipomea — False etymon a Quamoclit is the 
Mexican name; it grows from Florida to Mexi 
8. Gymniina. ‘Vaccine ichor,” ne ‘s sia oh or vaccine liquor.” 
9. Betu, a substitute for coffee. Sugar ought to be said instead. 
10. Rhus aromaticum I called Turpinia; but I changed it to 
Lobadium, on finding another genus T'urpinia. I did not know it 
was called Schmaltzia (after me or nd mother’s name) by Desvaux. 
It is ee Myrica trifoliata tne Linnee 
Saw sis to sea ss “Ovid and all other authors derive 
Narehiens from th ie 
Drosera ‘iliformis Raf.,. 1808. Pursh, in 1814, stole this 
plant from m 
18. Smilacina. Bad n me. It forms a aro Clintonia and 
my be 
ralist, and statesman 7 with bilocular berries. I have found six 
species of it; those cultivated in England are C. multiflora and nutans. 
-' Pot Hanabact same as Polygonum. My sa cinch or Axiliaria. 
fe new genus Cladrastis ; very different from the valle of of Africa. 
to Di: nay, also, Aronia united, far more removed ? 
17. Spiraea corymbosa of Loddiges i is ga published by me in 
1814. See Précis des Découvertes, No. 1 
