CALENDULA. 
491 
lago , Phagnalon from TvacpaXov or Gnaphalium , Obcejaca from 
Jacob ceci, Sogalgina from Galinsoga, Mantisalca from Salman - 
tica, &c., — not only by refusing uniformly to adopt, but by 
omitting as much as possible even to quote them for syno- 
nyms. No priority of date can plainly justify the adoption 
or perpetuation of such unseemly barbarisnfs, seeing that they 
really neutralize or undermine the very principles of all tech- 
nical or scientific nomenclature, and evade or indirectly violate, 
by the mere change of place in the letters or syllables of a 
word already used , the very law of priority itself. That law 
indeed is but a means to an end, viz. the establishment of a 
permanent technical nomenclature, and therefore may some- 
times on special grounds be properly infringed, — whereas the 
consequence of yielding currency to such base name-coinage, 
whether in Zoology or Botany, must be eventually to defeat 
the end itself, and not to establish but to depreciate the use and 
value of scientific nomenclature altogether — besides tending to 
repel, or inspire with disgust and contempt for the pursuits in 
which such puerilities are tolerated and kept up, every one of 
common taste or education. 
Tribe XVI. Calendulece Less. 
The Marigold Tribe. 
28. Calendula L. 
Marigolds. 
tttL C. officinalis L. Cuiclados. Marigold. 
Herb. ann. somewhat glandular and viscous; st. stout erect 
stiffly and compactly bushy, thickly and closely leafy ; 1. crowded 
furry-pubescent full gr. broadly ligulate- or lanceolate-oblong 
acute amplexicaul mostly entire ; fi. 40-50-rayed ; ach. all in- 
curved unarmed muriculato-rugose at the back, the outer 
shortly and broadly boat-shaped winged with smooth dilated 
involute borders, t lie inner longer linear-hornshaped subtrique- 
trous falcate or annular with or without beaks.— Linn. Sp. 1804 ; 
Brot. i. 399; Lam. Enc. vii. 275; Pers. ii. 492; BM. 3204; 
DC. vi. 451 ; Koch 4ol (sub C. arvensi L.) ; Seub. FI. Az. 32; 
Coss. et Germ. ii. 405 ; RFG. xv. fi'. i., ii., iii. ; Willk. et Lange 
FI. I lisp. ii. 120. Caltha vulgaris Moris, iii. 13. § 6. t. 4. f. 1. 
— Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, c ; PS. reg. 1, c. In gardens 
