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— e. g.: Apple and Pear, Gooseberry and Currant. As these are 
eal and universal English generic names,, they ought, if possible, to be 
iven as such. Still we appreciate the reasons which appear to have 
compelled the adoption of Pyrus and Ribes as English names, thoug 
English they never can become. Our author is strongly disposed through- 
out to make the Latin name do duty as an English one, doubtless Ha 
posing that they may become popular appellations in time, as Geraniu 
and Aster have done. Sometimes he adopts the Latin word ost 
sometimes he truncates or anglicises the termination. Happy instances 
of the latter sort, are 
_ Trigonel, from Trigonella. 
Limosel, from Limozella. 
“Corydal, from Corydalis. 
Corrigiole, from Corrigiola. 
Chrysosplene, from Chryaodplentun but why not Golden-spleen i ? 
Samole, from Samolus; but why not Brookweed ? 
Limnanth, from Limnanthem 
Scleranth, from Scleranthus ; teak why not Knawel ? 
Osmund, from Osmun a. 
Myriophyll, from Myriophyllum ; but why not Milfoil ? 
Ma , for Matricaria. ° 
Eupatory, for Eupatorium, ete. 
_ Those names which are not at all to our taste, are: 
Cerast, for Cerastium ; but if such a word must be coined, ae not 
Holost, for Holosteum on the preceding page ? 
Doronic, for Doronicum. 
Onopord, for Onopordon; why not Cotion-Thiste ? 
Polycarp, (newly martyred,) for Polyca 
Myosote, for Myosotis ; ; in place of j esrbale 
Capsell, for Capsella; in place of the — ‘Sltepus 
The best coinage of an English name is Rockcist for Helianthemum. 
An Introduction of 36 pages, teaches the elements of — to be- 
to eh are not the quite sete ones, and are not ad adhered to in the 
work itself. We were not aware that “in general the word ovary is used 
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body, and are glad to observe that the author does not use the word in 
this way in the body of the work, one or two instances excepted. : 
always supposed the word to be an exact synonym’ of the Linnean ger- 
men. And if we may not use it, as botanists always have done, for the 
: engetiare 3 portion of the pistil, whether simple or compound (reserv- 
ing carpel for the simple or elementary pistil, whether separate or com- 
_ bimed,) then a new word must needs be coined for this very purpose. To 
seetnke the rad Naot hataabore for the root, is common to all Eng- 
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