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Dr. Johnston’s Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed . This at all events was the only 
Melampyrum that I could find, and it was very plentiful in the woods of the Der¬ 
ry. As the trivial name pratense is so very uncharacteristic, and the plant is an 
invariable attendant upon hilly woods, if Dr. Johnston’s plant cannot stand as a new 
species, the name montana substituted for pratense would be advantageous, and 
prevent those errors to which all botanists are liable, especially if the plant be 
named from a casual inspection only, in combination with the habitat presumed 
from the name. 
As I descended the hill through the woody outlets, the magnificent Blorenge 
mountain, robed in the deepest purple, gleamed at intervals as I caught it through 
the watery cloud; and the last tinge of sunset was lost in the rising mists that 
began to overshadow the romantic valley of the Usk. The Bat and the Eve-jar, 
issuing from their retreats, passed rapidly among the thick foliage, and I emerged, 
at last, into a deep hollow-way leading to Abergavenny. * Hypericum dubium , 
and % Lepidium Smithii , in great profusion, occurred in the fields bordering upon 
the Derry Wood. 
r To be continued .] 
REMARKS ON THE PRESENT NOMENCLATURE OF BRITISH 
ORNITHOLOGY, 
WITH A VIEW TO ITS REVISION AND CORRECTION. 
By the Rev. F. Orpen Morris. 
[Continued from page 160.] 
Before proceeding with my observations on the English nomenclature of our 
British Birds, I must supply the omission of an exception to the second rule I laid 
down, with regard to specific names, that is, that “ the specific name should ex¬ 
press, to the fullest possible extent, the peculiar characteristics of the bird.” 
There are many species named after individuals, either after those who have dis¬ 
covered them, or, by those who have done so, in honour of some friend or illustri¬ 
ous observer of nature, and their name evidently cannot express any of the cha¬ 
racteristics of the species they represent. Now, it is scarcely necessary to stipu¬ 
late that such names as these should be only exceptions to the general rule, as the 
greater portion of animated nature has already received a nomenclature in every 
