; 
, 
ae a i ee eee ee = a 
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the ancient monuments and tombs of Mexico and Peru. His- 
came indeed from New Zealand, but is not a Flax. Among 
errors from the careless transference of names from one plant to 
another, that of Potato, which belongs to the Batatas or Sweet 
Potato, is familiar. Of mistakes which have been made in the 
transference of a popular name from one language to another, 
DeCandolle mentions the Arbre de Judée of the French, which 
in English has become Judas-tree. We may add that of Bois 
Jidéle, of the French West Indians, which, taken up by their 
English successors as Fiddle-wood, has been perpetuated in the 
generic name arex 
he several lines of evidence,—botanical, archzeological, 
palzsontological, historical, and linguistic—may be used to sup- 
plement or ct each other. How they may be brought to 
such as roots, : 
Those cultivated for their herbage, whether for human food, 
for forage, for fibers, for stimulation, etc. ; but 
medical gins are left wholly out of view, as likewise plants 
and Saffron. For the Rose, Acacia Farnesiana, and all plants 
however largely cultivated for perfume or for essential oils are 
