340 CHAPTER 51, 
cerning whofe dangerous fituation I have 
been very uneafy all night {e).'* 
{e) In 1759, Mr. Miller paid Dr. Watson the 
tribute of calling a new genus in the Triandrous clafs 
after his name ; two fpecies of which he has figured in 
the " Cuts adapted to the Gardener's Didionary," tab. 
276. and tab. 297. fig. 2. It proved that DhTrew had 
before given the name of Mer'iana to the firft of thefe ; 
and LiNN^us found himfelf obliged by the rules of his 
fyflem, to reduce thefe two fpecies to his genus J/itholyzay 
already eftablifhed in the Species Plantarum ; thus finking 
the generic term of Watfonia^ and retaining Trew's as 
a trivial name to the plant of tab. 276. It is to be re- 
gretted that, in juftice to Dr. Watson, who had de- 
fer ved fo eminently well of the fcience, that Linnjeus 
did not at leaft name the Icfler fpecies, tab. 297. 2. of 
Miller, AnMyza Watfonia^ inftead of Meriandla. 
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