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of late years been characterized, and really more constant and more im- 
portant than the author’s experience has led him to conclude, they can- 
not be understood without a more complete acquaintance with trifling, 
vague, and sometimes theoretical characters, than he has himself been 
able to attain, or than can ever be expected from ere amateur. 
* e species are limited according to what are conceived to 
have been the original principles of Linnzeus: and uthor, in sub- 
several species.” ; 
6, Popular names are employed and reduced to a system, in accordance 
with the principles of botanical nomenclature. “ An attempt has, on the 
and generic names ; between epithets and specific names; between sub- 
stantives and adjectives ; that on frequent occasions one name is applied 
tha 
to several genera, or several names to one genus; that number of 
words forming the name of a plant varies from one to five, instez of 
apne® ee : : 
on the publication of this Flora. aah 
Criticism may well be deferred until this paper comes to hand. Of 
the propriety of an English nomenclature of some kind in a Flora where 
fore makine the attempt. The present undertaking must be deemed a 
— What imnporkections it has, are on the safer side. We 
should have inclined to a larger use of the vernacular for generic names ; 
and where they were inapplicable to whole genera, to apply them to sub- 
