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hut they will he c Orders, ' literally like those of any re- 

 ligious or chivalrie association, having some common 

 link rather intellectual than national, the Charites, 

 for instance, linked by their kindness, the Oreiades, 

 by their mountain seclusion, as Sisters of Charity or 

 Monks of the Chartreuse, irrespective of ties of relation- 

 ship. Then beneath these orders will come, what may 

 be rightly called, either as above in Greek derivation, 

 ' Genera, ' or in Latin, ' Gentes, ' for which, however, I 

 choose the Latin word, because Genus is disagreeably 

 liable to be confused on the ear with ' genius ' ; but 

 Gens, never ; and also ' nomen gentile ' is a clearer and 

 better expression than ' nomen generosum,' and I will 

 not coin the barbarous one, ' genericum.' The name of 

 the Gens, (as ' Lucia,') with an attached epithet, as 

 4 Verna,' will, in most cases, be enough to characterize 

 the individual flower ; but if farther subdivision be 

 necessary, the third order will be that of Families, in- 

 dicated by a 4 nomen familiare ' added in the third place 

 of nomenclature, as Lucia Verna, Borealis ; and no far- 

 ther subdivision will ever be admitted. I avoid the 

 word 'species' originally a bad one, and lately vul- 

 garized beyond endurance altogether. And varieties 

 belonging to narrow localities, or induced by horticulture, 

 may be named as they please by the people living near 

 the spot, or by the gardener who grows them ; but will 

 not be acknowledged by Proserpina. Nevertheless, the 

 arbitrary reduction under Ordines, Gentes, and Familiae, 



