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(notwithstanding the flowers being double) to prove, 
that it belonged to quite another clafs of plants, as 
different from the Jafmine as the Rofe is from the 
Peony : that the fruit was below the receptacle, in- 
ffead of being above it. But, in order to be more 
certain, you may remember, in July 1 7 58, I pro- 
cured a fpecimen from Mr. Warner, for my friend 
Dr. Linnagus’s opinion. At the fame time I wrote 
to the profeffor, that if he found it to be a new genus, 
agreeable to the defcription I had fent him, that he 
would pleafe to call it Warneria, after its worthy 
poffeffor. In his anfwer, he fets forth the impofli- 
bility of his being exaCt in determining a new genus 
from a double flower, agreeable to the rules he has 
already laid down in his Fundamenta Botanica. But 
thefe objections were foon after fortunately removed, 
by accidentally finding, among his dried oriental 
plants, a fpecimen of the fame kind with a fingle 
flower, which, upon expanding it in warm water, 
and differing it, he found it to agree very nearly 
with the defcription I had fent him. But Mr. War- 
ner refufing to have it fo called, and chufing that it 
fhould ftill remain a Jafmine, as it is commonly called, 
I have thought no man more worthy, as a botanift, 
than our friend Dr. Garden : accordingly, the pro- 
feffor has agreed to adopt this new genus by the name 
of Gardenia, which he fays belongs to the natural 
order of contorted flowers, that is, to thofe mono- 
petalous flowers, whofe lobes, or feCtions of the limb 
of their petals, turn all to the right hand ; fuch as 
the Nerium, Plumeria, Cerbera, Cameraria, Vinca, 
&c. and that it fhould be placed next to the Cerbera. 
Mr» 
