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Sweet’s appellation, where he has used the genitive of a 
personal name, but rejecting the Latin adjectives which 
ought to be reserved for the natural species, and I have 
given such names in their place as will exemplify the 
nomenclature I propose for such demi-species. It will be 
recollected that I have recommended the change of the few 
genitives of proper names which occur amongst the species 
into an adjective termination, for the purpose of confining the 
genitives to the plants of mixed origin. I consider the two 
converse productions obtained by reversing the sexes of the 
parents to be included under one name, covering all the 
crosses raised from different varieties of the same two species; 
for instance that the mixture between Vittatum and any 
variety of Bulbulosum should bear the same name, and its 
diversities only rank as subordinate varieties. Even wfith 
that limitation the artificial demi-species will be very nume- 
rous, but florist’s names, such as Juno, Ceres, Camillus, 
Napoleon, Alompra, Sigismunda, See., must be given to the 
subordinary varieties, and those deserve no place in a 
botanical arrangement, belonging property to the catalogues 
of cultivators. I think it will be much best to limit the 
names of cross-bred demi-species strictly to genitives of 
proper names or of the place where they w r ere raised. In 
the descriptive double name, that which is placed first 
indicates the male, but the converse is intended to be 
included under it. 
Hybrid or mixed Crosses. — 1. Johnsoni, or Regio- vit- 
tatum ; raised by Johnson, w r ho had a small garden in 
Lancashire, in 1810; by me at Mitcham, in 1811, and at 
Highclere later. Am. Braziliensis, Red. Lil. 8. 469. Am. 
Carnarvoni. De Candolle, improperly, since the name 
Johnsoni had been previously published in the Hort. Trans, 
and was in general use. Johnson’s cross was probably 
accidental, for he thought it a mule between Vittatum and 
Sprekelia formosissima, and it passed for such during several 
years. — 2. Seymouri, or Aulico-vittatum, named from my 
present gardener. — 3. Allmanni , or Calyptrato- vittatum; 
raised at Colvill’s where I saw it in flower; named from the 
Professor of Botany at Dublin. — 4. Andersoni , or Bulbuloso- 
vittatum ; named from the conductor of the Chelsea garden ; 
very variable, according to the variety of bulbulosum from 
which it is raised. — 5. Hookeri, or Goweni-vittatum ; very 
beautiful ; named from the Botanical Professor at Glasgow. 
