LAMB'S-TONGUE. 



Plantago lanccolata. Nat. Ord., 

 Plantaginacea. 



MONGST the plants of the 

 meadow and pasture, few 

 are more abundant than the 

 lambVtongue ; hence we 

 could not deny it a place 

 in our series, though it 

 would be gross flattery 

 to place it on a par in 

 attractiveness with .many 

 of the plants we have 

 figured. Still it has a 

 certain wild picturesqueness 

 of its own, and, like every- 

 thing else in the whole 

 realm of nature, improves 

 on acquaintance and study. 

 It derives its name from a 

 supposed resemblance in the 

 form of the foliage to the tongue of a lamb, but our readers 

 will not have reached our present volume, we are sure, with- 

 out having made the discovery that a very slight resemblance 

 indeed is in most cases all that is required in rural nomen- 

 clature. The resemblance in the present case is fairly illus- 

 trative of this easy-going system, and some writers, not 



