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" which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the 

 oven , ' ' Lilium . 



But the leading position of these neuters in the 

 plant's double name must be noticed by students un- 

 acquainted with Latin, in order to distinguish them from 

 plural genitives, which will always, of course, be the sec- 

 ond word, (Francesca Fontium, Francescaof the Springs.) 



li. Names terminating in ' is ' and ' e,' if definitely 

 names of women, (Iris, Amaryllis, Alcestis, Daphne,) 

 will always signify flowers of great beauty, and noble 

 historic association. If not definitely names of women, 

 they w r ill yet indicate some specialty of sensitiveness, or 

 association with legend (Berberis, Clematis). No neu- 

 ters in ' e ' will be admitted. 



15. Participial terminations (Impatiens), with neuters 

 in ' en ' (Cyclamen), will always be descriptive of some 

 special quality or form, leaving it indeterminate if good 

 or bad, until explained. It will be manifestly impossible 

 to limit either these neuters, or the feminines in ' is ' to 

 Latin forms ; but we shall always know by their termin- 

 ation that they cannot be generic names, if we are strict 

 in forming these last on a given method. 



16. How little method there is in our present forma- 

 tion of them, I am myself more and more surprised as I 

 consider. A child is shown a rose, and told that he is 

 to call every flower like that, c Rosaceous 5 ; * he is next 



* Compare Chapter V., 7. 



