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lished in 1824, Professor Bigelow wrote of it as 

 the Bluish Honstonia, evidently a translation of 'ts 

 botanical name. In 1827 Professor Nuttall wrote 

 that he knew^ of no " common prevailing name " 



i^twtografh by A. H. V err ill 



BLUETS 



for it. A little later it was called by some of the 

 botanists '' Venus' Pride," scarcely a happy temi 

 for so demure a blossom. The flowers seem to 

 have been first called Quaker Bonnets in Pennsyl- 

 vania, and the name has since been corrupted to 



