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if we except the case of Hill in the Hortus Kewensis — seems to 

 have acted without known precedent, and therefore independ- 

 ently ; arriving at this course by his own individual reasoning 

 and reflection. Through a rather discreditable innocency of all 

 that is going on in the nomenclatorial world outside of Italy, he 

 lays down for himself a line of procedure which is, to his mind, 

 new ; and in having followed it, as it were all alone, he must be 

 credited with the virtue of a strong independency that is some- 

 what rare, and which merits praise. And if examples are to 

 stand for arguments his, unless he should by and by retract, may 

 perhaps, outweigh the force of Hill's example of so long ago ; 

 for he, having once propounded Cyanus Cyanus, Mariana Mariana 

 and one or two more like them, repented of his error and declined 

 to make other such names ; which, by the way, the critic did not 

 mention. 



