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Thus we have one general name for all these creatures, 

 ' Ophryd ' ; and three family or group names, Contorta, 

 Satyrium, and Aeria, every one of these titles containing 

 as much accurate fact about the thing named as I can 

 possibly get packed into their syllables : and I will trou- 

 ble my young readers with no more divisions of the or- 

 der. And if their parents, tutors, or governors, after 

 this fair warning, choose to make them learn, instead, 

 the seventy-seven different names with which botanist- 

 heraldries have beautifully ennobled the family, all I can 

 say is, let them at least begin by learning them themselves. 

 They will be found in due order in pages 1084, 1085 of 

 London's Cyclopaedia.* 



12. But now, farther : the student will observe that 

 the name of the total order is Greek ; while the three 

 family ones are Latin, although the central one is origi- 

 nally Greek also. 



I adopt this as far as possible for a law through my 

 whole plant nomenclature. 



13. Farther : the terminations of the Latin family 

 names will be, for the most part, of the masculine, fem- 



* I offer a sample of two dozen for good papas and mammas to 

 begin with : 



Angraecmn. Corallorrhiza. Ornithidium. Prescotia. 



Anisopetalum. Cryptarrhena. Ornithocephalus. Renanthera. 



Brassavola. Eulophia. Platanthem. Itodriguezia, 



Brassia. Gymnadcnia. Pleurothallis. Stenorhyncus. 



Caelogyne. Microstylis. Pogonia. Trizeuxis. 



Calopogon. Octomcria, Polystachya. Xylobium. 



