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trees in its foliage, but furnished with trifling blossoms, 
bears the name of a botanist highly favoured by fortune, 
and allowed an ample salary for investigating the New 
AForld, but whose labours were trifling. Magnolia, 
with its beautiful blossoms and fruit, serves to immor- 
talise two of the most meritorious botanists. Lhincea, 
a depressed, abject, Lapland plant, long overlooked, 
flowering at an early age, was named by Gronovius 
after its jn-ototype, Linnieus.” Many other poetic or 
elegant analogies might be drawn, showing the discri- 
minating judgment of our predecessors in this respect. 
Thus, Sjnithia, growing in shady thickets, witli its 
beautiful pinnated leaves, closing together on being 
rudely handled, commemorates the modest, yet learned 
Sir James Smith, whose amiable feelings were most 
expanded in the retreats of private life. The large 
and beautiful crimson flowers of Jlrownm will recall 
to mind the splendid talents of the first of living 
botanists, to whose honour every body will attribute the 
name.* Goodeiwvia will perpetuate the memory of a late 
eminent botanist and divine much better than the little 
bird injudiciously called after him : while Banksia, a 
most extensive group of plants peculiar to Australia, re- 
minds us of that munificent patron of science who first 
investigated the shores of Botany Bay. In like manner, 
as specific names of this sort are, in ornithology, what 
generic are in botany, Vaillnnti, Kuhli, and Figorsi 
may justly be applied to some of the new and splendid 
parrots recently described ; for by those names we should 
perpetuate the labours of the most eminent investi- 
gators who have especially written upon the family 
of Psittacida;. As the name oi Barrahaud, although but 
a zoological painter of these birds, cannot be refused 
admittance into such an honourable list, we trust to see 
that of Lear also added on some future occasion. It 
is obvious, however, that these two latter would be 
quite misapplied if given to other birds : however, they 
• Wc believe this genus, in reality, was instituted to coaunemorate an 
old author who wrote on the plants of Jamaica. 
