
          I wish you would be so good as to give me your opinion
 very candidly & freely on this point.  If there is good reason for
 introducing the new name, as belonging to plants decidedly
 distinct from Isolepis, I will of course adopt it.  Not having
 any work in my profession in which the name is used, I feel at
 a loss how to manage it.  I find myself, moreover, becoming every
 day more & more averse to new names for old acquaintances.
 Yet I freely admit that some very valuable improvements
 have been made in modern times, in the language of Botany.  The
 new views of the vegetable kingdom, presented by Brown, DeCandolle,
 Richard, & Lindley, require, to some extent, as new language; and
 I think the modern [Glossology?] vastly more correct & philosophical
 than the ancient.  My chief objection is to the wanton coinage
 of new generic names for plants that have been long familiar
 to us by other names.  A new genus, it is true, must have a
 new name: and if you are satisfied that the 
 Tircholostylis is distinct from Isolepis, I shall
 be quite prepared to take the former name.
 I should be glad, also, to learn its true meaning,
 or derivation.  I suppose it has some reference to a
 hair-like, or hairy style; but I cannot satisfy myself
 fully, by my [Schriviluis?].  Speaking of names, I am sorry
 to see the Aronia of [Persoon?], superceded by the uncouth
 french word [Amelar....?].  It is perhaps on account of
 priority - and therefore in accordance with the principle I
 have just advocated: but it is too bad to impose a name from
 a modern language, which none but a person acquainted
 with that language can come any where near pronouncing.


 I hope, if you can have time to read all my rigamarole,
 you will excuse the liberty I take, in thus venting my
 desultory ideas.  I sat down merely to give you notice
 of the package which I am about to forward;
 & have filled a sheet with verbage, which
 I fear you will consider quite an infliction to read through.
                         I am nevertheless very truly your
                    obliged & sincere friend
                                    Wm. Darlington


 Dr. Jn. Torrey, N.Y.

        