912 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 
Square, but left no descendants; from the other brother the great 
botanists are sprung. 
ot many years ago a French teacher in England (whose real 
name was not aristocratic) published his teaching books under the 
name of DeCandolle. ; honse DeCandolle immediately in- 
structed a London solicitor to take proceedings against the man 
opinion of an eminent counsel that there was in England no way 
of touching the French teacher. M. Alphonse DeCandolle was 
prejudiced in favour of everything English—even an English dinner 
—but h t in this matter of allowing one man to 
trade upon another man’s name he thought the English law 
defective. 
and enterprising tour for any person to take at that 
eriod. 
Some of the earlier volumes of the DeCandolle Prodromus were 
prepared at the «Petits Pierres,” a house about a mile and a half 
boat by way of exercise. 
M. Alphonse DeCandolle was justly proud of his father (Grand 
Cross of the Legion of Honour) and of his sons ; ha was most 
aristocratic-looking. I have met few men who to so great dignity 
of manner united so great kindness and consideration for others. 
SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEZ. 
By Epmunp G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 76.) 
y- Flores racemosi. 
ABUTILON RAcEMosuM Schlecht. in Linnea, xi. p. 867. Sida 
racemiflora Steud. Nom. ii. p, 579. 
ab. Mexico, nr. Tlalpuyahua, 
