14:6 PROSERPINA. 



ten, the leaves of the Marguerite are odd, so that, if thej 

 are only gracious enough to begin with the supposition 

 that he loves them, they must needs end in the conviction 

 of it. 



23. I am concerned, however, for the present, only with 

 my first or golden order, of which the Hoof-foil, or house- 

 leek, is called in present botany, Sedurn, fc the squatter,' 



'because of its way of fastening itself down 'on stones, or 

 roof, as close as it can sit. But I think this an ungraceful 

 notion of its behaviour ; and as its blossoms are, of all 

 flowers, the most sharply and distinctly star-shaped, I shall 

 call it 4 Stella' (providing otherwise, in due time, for the 

 poor little duckweeds;) and the common stonecrop will 

 therefore be ' Stella domestica.' 



The second tribe, (at present saxifraga,) growing for 

 the most part wild on rocks, may, I trust, even in Protes- 

 tant botany, be named Francesca, after St. Francis of 

 Assisi ; not only for its modesty, and love of mountain 

 ground, and poverty of colour and leaf ; but also because 

 the chief element of its decoration, seen close, will be 

 found in its spots, or stigmata. 



In the nomenclature of the third order I make no 

 change. 



24. Now all this group of golden-blossoming plants 

 agree in general character of having a rich cluster of radi- 

 cal leaves, from which they throw up a single stalk bear- 

 ing clustered blossoms ; for which stalk, when entirety 

 leafless, I intend always to keep the term ( virgula, 3 the 



