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W. 1 R. GUILFOYLE, F.L.S. 



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C. M. ROYAL BOTANICAL SOCIETY, LONDON ; DIRECTOR OF THE 

 MELBOURNE BOTANIC GARDENS; AUTHOR OF THE ' A B C OF BOTANY, 



ETC. ETC. 



Secant. Titian J^}j £ 6 1§88 



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Since the days of LlNNVEUS, who was the great reformer of this part of Natural History, a host of 

 strange names, inharmonious, sesquipedalian, or barbarous, have found their way into Botany, and by the 

 stern but almost indispensable laws of priority are retained there. It is full time, indeed, that some stop 

 should be put to this torrent of savage sounds, when we find such words as Caluchechinus, Oresigenesa, 

 Finaustrina, Kraschenninikovia, Gravenhorstia, Andrzejofskya, Mielichoferia, Monactineirma, Pleuroschis- 

 matypus, and hundreds of others like them, thrust into the records of Botany without even an apology. 

 . . The author has been anxious to do something towards alleviating this grievous evil, which at least 

 need not be permitted to eat into the healthy form of Botany clothed in the English language.' — The 

 Vegetable Kingdom, pp. xv.-xvi., by Dr. LlNDLEY, F.R.S., F.L.S., etc. 



GEORGE ROBERTSON 



MELBOURNE,' SYDNEY, BRISBANE, AND ADELAIDE 



MDCCCLXXXIV. 



