less preceded rather from the wish to unite the same 

 forms , than from any desire to create new names. 



Let us hope that this, and similar works may at length 

 awaken the Spanish botanists from that vnvov Mapyov 

 (3«9uv, in which they have too long indulged. It is to 

 them alone that we must look for a complete catalo- 

 gue of the richest and most varied Flora of Europe, for 

 as Pliny truly says, after Italy the garden of the world, 

 « exceptis Indiae fabulosis , proxime quidem duxerim 

 Hispaniam,quacumqueambitur mari. » 



