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caceous plant,) that name was subsequently altered again, and 
Triverana substituted by Willdenow, and just as this last is 
becoming familiar to us, by a sudden retrograde thought of 
M. Aug. Pyr. de Candolle, following perhaps Persoon and 
Nees von Esenbeck, we are at once carried back again to the 
old Achimenes. How long it will last under the present de¬ 
nomination we cannot pretend to determine, but we must 
warmly and strongly protest against these feats of legerdemain 
in our botanic nomenclature. Dr. Lindley says he thinks it 
would have been far better to have retained the name Triverana, 
in which opinion we perfectly concur ; but thinking so, he should 
have strenuously resisted the innovation when naming the pre¬ 
sent species; nor do we think the reason assigned sufficiently 
cogent to excuse him, although it had taken place in the 
Prodromus of De Candolle, we certainly think the inconvenience 
to cultivators occasioned by the return to the old name of much 
greater magnitude than could have arisen to systematists, by 
retaining the one then in most general use ; as it is, we have the 
old Achimenes, alias Cyrilla, alias Triverana, at once and like an 
honest genus, throw off all its aliases and appear again under 
its old cognomen ; really this seems to partake too much of any¬ 
thing rather than a regular system. 
The cultivation of these plants is of the easiest possible 
description wherever the requisite accommodation can be 
afforded them; their roots consist of a number of small 
imbricated tubers, each one if detached produces an entire and 
perfect plant; knowing this, the cultivator has but little trouble 
in the propagation of his plant. During the winter these tubers 
require to be kept perfectly dry and dormant; it is on the proper 
hybernation of these roots that the bloom of the succeeding 
year depends, and as this period is just commencing we will 
adapt our remarks to it first. It must be understood the roots 
are not to be dried so thoroughly as is necessary with larger 
roots of the same description or habit, as if so treated, the vitality 
of the tuber is materially affected, and the flowering conse¬ 
quently weakened; we have seen them taken from the mould, 
and after being dried, we might say scorched, in the sun, have 
been wrapped in paper and kept through the winter as is prac- 
