76 FUSSELL : BOTANICAL NAMKS. 



daisy, evening primrose, forget-me-not, fringed gentian, grape 

 hyacinth, fringed orchis, golden rod, hawthorn, honewort, etc. 



Britton and Brown, in their " Illustrated Flora," and Dr. 

 Nathaniel Lord Britton, in his " Manual," make a long stride 

 toward the adoption of common names by assigning to each 

 species given in these books a common name, "accepted 

 either from popular usage or chosen in reference to some more 

 or less distinctive feature of the plant." 



It is to be hoped that this action will go a long way toward 

 the adoption of a common name for each plant. This was the 

 case in regard to birds, when the American Ornithological 

 ITnion added to their "Check List of Birds" a common 

 name for each species. 



