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coverer, deseriber, d&e., are surely nnobjectionable. Generic names de- 
rived from persons are, we agree, best restricted to botany, where, when 
er eo atey. pple, they are in good taste, if not too cacophonous. As 
osely resembling renee in large genera it may sometimes be best to 
are intolerable. But whist can be orettiar: among unmeaning names 
than R. Brown’s Tellima? Botanists will hardly agree that a 
Neric name which has been effectually superseded by the law of priority, 
should never afterwards be bestowed upon some other genus of some 
Other order, “It has sometimes been the practice, in sting an old 
Genus, to give to the lesser genera so formed the names of their respective 
typical yin ies.’ The emai he ee ws ras usage became the pro- 
ne appening at yu hse thalictroides, Now if we adopt the 
of Linngus, to which he would probably have adhered had he lived 
il now, We write the naine ta the authority thus :— 
Leontiee thelictroides, Lin 
(Syn. Cauulo phyllum thatlictroides, Michx.) 
The abbreviated eet of the authors appended stand in pe of the full 
reference, e.gr. Linn. Sp. Pl. 4, p. 448, and Michx. Fl, Bor-Am. 1,P 
205, tab. 21. If the a view be adopted, it stands, in bees os 
Caulophyllum thalictroides, Michx. 
(Syn. Leontice thalictroides, Linn,) 
But, fearfyl lest the ee — should be robbed of his due credit, 
it has been proposec a 
Caulophyllum alicia, Linn, This is = only an anachronism 
mi a century, but an imposition upon Linnzeus of a view which be had 
and perhaps esate not have adopted. To avoid such fatal objer 
. thons, it has been proposed to write Coulockyllai (Michx.) ogee 
— ; which is not only “ too lengthy and inconvenient to 
and ra rapidity,” but too sonitnncn aod uncouth to be used at all. sat 
finally, the Committee propose to write,— 
Caulophyllum thalictroides, (Lian.) (sp.),— 
which is scarcely shorter, or even to leave out the(sp.) Th 0 rene i but 
to note that Linnseus originally gave the specific name gs long 
_ Bot the generic. Who 4, aon be otherwise ascertained. A pretly 
nee convinces us much confusion is risked Be troub™ 
and nothing worth tiala secured by these endeavors to put fore 
