T5ANKSIA SERRATA. 
-^IJf the last mentioned author; but he quotes 
his synonyms in the letter-press. We men- 
tion this, that he may not be accused of wan- 
tonly changing Linnsan names ; and that for| 
the worse, as it would appear to any one unin- 
formed of this circumstance.'* i 
The chara6i:er of the genus," proceeds 
Mr. White's Appendix, which we have been 
informed v/as written by Dr. Shaw of the 
British Museum, " is very badly made out in 
Linnseus. Gaertner has greatly corre6led it : 
but it is still a doubt, whether the flowers ar? 
constantly monopetalous, or tetrapetalous^ noi* 
have we materials sufficient to remove this 
difficulty. All we can say is, tliat Banksia ii 
next in natural arrangement to Protea ; from 
which it is essentially distinguished, by having 
^ hard, woody, bivalve capsule, containing 
Iwo winged seeds, with a moveable membra- 
nous partition between them. It is strangely 
.misplaced in Murray's 14th edition of Syste- 
jua V egetablUum, being put between Ludwi- 
^ia and Oldenlandia !" 
Though nothing, perhaps, can be objedled 
to these general remarks on the ditferent spe- 
eift 
